Cinnamon to lower blood sugar?

I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years
ago. A couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules.
Maybe I didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but
all I got was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no
proof cinnamon does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with
positive results?

On Wed, 07 May 2008 07:20:02 -0700, frank wrote:

> I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years ago. A
> couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules. Maybe I
> didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but all I got
> was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no proof cinnamon
> does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with positive results?

I've tried it - noticed no difference.

"frank" <famvburg@canufly.net> wrote in message
news:aa0cb98e-2423-44ea-b620-3113fd33d366@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years
> ago. A couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules.
> Maybe I didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but
> all I got was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no
> proof cinnamon does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with
> positive results?

Not me. It raised my BG. Also, I had the taste of cinnamon in my mouth all
day which was very annoying.

On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:20:02 -0700 (PDT), frank <famvburg@canufly.net>
wrote:

>
> I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years
>ago. A couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules.
>Maybe I didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but
>all I got was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no
>proof cinnamon does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with
>positive results?

The cinnamon thing comes up periodically. It is discounted
and then someone says we are using the wrong type. the
story keeps changing so that may suggest it is a fad.

In any area where we lack facts the fiction take over.

The only say to get an answer is a blind controlled study.

Suggestion is a powerful force. When in high school
a teacher had us do some experiments where we ganged up
on a student and suggested they look sick. later they
went home.

An old retired doc related to me that he had several colors
of "sugar"pills. When he suspect a false illness, he prescribed
them and if the patient improved, he had a fact to use.

Blind studies are the only way to resolve the many alleged
issues.

I have been taken in by any items but then they never worked
again.

Control of blood sugar does work and continues to work for me.





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On May 7, 7:20*am, frank <famvb...@canufly.net> wrote:
> * * I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years
> ago. A couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules.
> Maybe I didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but
> all I got was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no
> proof cinnamon does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with
> positive results?

I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...

Sean

I guess everybody has some mountain to climb.
It's just fate whether you live in Kansas or Tibet...

On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:20:02 -0700 (PDT), frank
<famvburg@canufly.net> wrote:

>
> I've been hearing about this ever since I was diagnosed 3 years
>ago. A couple of years ago I bought a bottle of cinnamon capsules.
>Maybe I didn't take them long enough, more than the 30 day supply, but
>all I got was a cinnamon after-taste belch! My doc says there's no
>proof cinnamon does any good anyway. Any of y'all into cinnamon with
>positive results?

Just use cinnamon in your menu. This is a regular subject,
so I wrote a longer answer here:
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/20...d-similar.html


Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
--
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com
Latest:What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter.
and Cambodia
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/2008/03/cambodia.html

"Sean" <spk_gbv@msn.com> wrote in message

I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...


As a student in the '70s I used to powder then smoke it in roll ups. A few
of us did that after reading that cinnamon could give a false positive
result for a cannabis test. We thought it might fool our brain receptors.
It tasted quite nice, but did'nt do anything out of the ordinary (copd and
bronchitis 25 years later I suppose is to be accepted as normal :-(

> I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
> bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
> and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...

If you taste the fish oil in a burp afterward, it's rancid and
you should throw it out, whatever the expiration date says.
Or so I've heard.

Hash <hash.not.really@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
>> bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
>> and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...

> If you taste the fish oil in a burp afterward, it's rancid and
> you should throw it out, whatever the expiration date says.
> Or so I've heard.

In which case nearly all the fish oil I've ever bought is rancid when
my wife takes it, but not when I take it.

--
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IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:47:20 -0500, Hash posted:

>> I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
>> bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
>> and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...
>
>If you taste the fish oil in a burp afterward, it's rancid and
>you should throw it out, whatever the expiration date says.
>Or so I've heard.

Sounds like an old wive's tale. The repeating is variable within the
same batch in my case. Sometimes it repeats on me, sometimes it
doesn't. It never repeats on my wife.

--
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
<uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
wrote:

> roses are #FF0000
> violets are #0000FF
> all my base
> are belong to you

Oh, that's funny!

--
DonnaB shallotpeel : ^> USA <*> new WIN Vista user
06-07-06 Diagnosis T2 HbA1c 8.1, D&E & Metformin 500mg
Current ................... HbA1c 6.3

On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:43 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel posted:

>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
><uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>wrote:
>
>> roses are #FF0000
>> violets are #0000FF
>> all my base
>> are belong to you
>
>Oh, that's funny!

Isn't it though? I just realized I was posting it here, due to making
it my default .sig and forgetting to change my asd .sig.

I read it on http://www.thinkgeek.com, in their product listings. It
was on a Tshirt they sell. The #FF0000 is written in red and #0000FF
is in blue.

Have a look at their "illuminated TShirts". I have the "T-Qualizer on
my Christmas wish list.

--
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

It lowers my blood sugar by about 25 points.
--
-----
Lou
Of all the things I have lost,
I miss my mind the most.

On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
wrote:

>
>On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:47:20 -0500, Hash posted:
>
>>> I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
>>> bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
>>> and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...
>>
>>If you taste the fish oil in a burp afterward, it's rancid and
>>you should throw it out, whatever the expiration date says.
>>Or so I've heard.
>
>Sounds like an old wive's tale. The repeating is variable within the
>same batch in my case. Sometimes it repeats on me, sometimes it
>doesn't. It never repeats on my wife.

I could never take the fish oil caps for that very reason, but I can
eat any quantity of any fish (except perhaps for unfresh mackerel)

Here's a thought, when they extract fish oil what do they do with the
rest of the fish? Make it into Low Fat fish fingers and sell it for an
exorbitant price?

Trinkwasser <spam@devnull.com.invalid> wrote:
: On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
: wrote:

: >
: >On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:47:20 -0500, Hash posted:
: >
: >>> I tried it and saw no change. I'm just finishing off the bottle I
: >>> bought then I will not buy anymore. I also take fish-oil supplements
: >>> and the combined cinnamon-fish burps are enough to make you retch...
: >>
: >>If you taste the fish oil in a burp afterward, it's rancid and
: >>you should throw it out, whatever the expiration date says.
: >>Or so I've heard.
: >
: >Sounds like an old wive's tale. The repeating is variable within the
: >same batch in my case. Sometimes it repeats on me, sometimes it
: >doesn't. It never repeats on my wife.

: I could never take the fish oil caps for that very reason, but I can
: eat any quantity of any fish (except perhaps for unfresh mackerel)

: Here's a thought, when they extract fish oil what do they do with the
: rest of the fish? Make it into Low Fat fish fingers and sell it for an
: exorbitant price?

Probably turn it into some kind f fish or animal feed. It might also make
a good fertilizer:-0

Wendy

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:37:41 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
wrote:

>
>On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:43 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel posted:
>
>>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
>><uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> roses are #FF0000
>>> violets are #0000FF
>>> all my base
>>> are belong to you
>>
>>Oh, that's funny!
>
>Isn't it though? I just realized I was posting it here, due to making
>it my default .sig and forgetting to change my asd .sig.
>
>I read it on http://www.thinkgeek.com, in their product listings. It
>was on a Tshirt they sell. The #FF0000 is written in red and #0000FF
>is in blue.
>
>Have a look at their "illuminated TShirts". I have the "T-Qualizer on
>my Christmas wish list.

Is a way cool sig, Larry - sparked off a neat discussion with my 13yo,
who demanded a translation; I made her get there the hard way,
starting with binary :P

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25

On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:09:13 +0100, Nicky posted:

>On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:37:41 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:43 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel posted:
>>
>>>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
>>><uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> roses are #FF0000
>>>> violets are #0000FF
>>>> all my base
>>>> are belong to you
>>>
>>>Oh, that's funny!
>>
>>Isn't it though? I just realized I was posting it here, due to making
>>it my default .sig and forgetting to change my asd .sig.
>>
>>I read it on http://www.thinkgeek.com, in their product listings. It
>>was on a Tshirt they sell. The #FF0000 is written in red and #0000FF
>>is in blue.
>>
>>Have a look at their "illuminated TShirts". I have the "T-Qualizer on
>>my Christmas wish list.
>
>Is a way cool sig, Larry - sparked off a neat discussion with my 13yo,
>who demanded a translation; I made her get there the hard way,
>starting with binary :P

But did she get the "all my base are belong to you" reference?

--
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

Oleg Lego wrote in message
<2fhh24hlbo311t8uekl94f9l7b6jervj4c@4ax.com>...

>But did she get the "all my base are belong to you" reference?
>
>--
> roses are #FF0000
> violets are #0000FF
> all my base
> are belong to you

I didn't get a bit of it. :-)

Cheri

On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:14:04 -0700, Cheri posted:

>
>Oleg Lego wrote in message
><2fhh24hlbo311t8uekl94f9l7b6jervj4c@4ax.com>...
>
>>But did she get the "all my base are belong to you" reference?
>>
>>--
>> roses are #FF0000
>> violets are #0000FF
>> all my base
>> are belong to you
>
>I didn't get a bit of it. :-)

For the benefit of the non-computer-geeks...

roses are red

(#FF0000 is the hexadecimal value for red on a Windows machine)

violets are blue

same thing, but for blue instead of red.

all my base
are belong to you

this is a turned around phrase, based on a phrase ("All your base
are belong to us") from the intro to a cult video game that was very
poorly translated. See the Wikipedia article at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you...e_belong_to_us




--
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:37:41 -0600, in
<77pf249l1vtkp5t1cjgspt7ddmbagj5r85@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:43 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel posted:
>
>>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
>><uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> roses are #FF0000
>>> violets are #0000FF
>>> all my base
>>> are belong to you
>>
>>Oh, that's funny!
>
>Isn't it though? I just realized I was posting it here, due to making
>it my default .sig and forgetting to change my asd .sig.
>
>I read it on http://www.thinkgeek.com, in their product listings. It
>was on a Tshirt they sell. The #FF0000 is written in red and #0000FF
>is in blue.
>
>Have a look at their "illuminated TShirts". I have the "T-Qualizer on
>my Christmas wish list.

Oh, I love Think Geek. I get emails from them and the snail mail brochure. I'm
a decent repeat customer. <G> I will check it out.

--
DonnaB shallotpeel : ^> USA <*> new WIN Vista user
06-07-06 Diagnosis T2 HbA1c 8.1, D&E & Metformin 500mg
Current ................... HbA1c 6.3

On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:34:53 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
wrote:

>
>On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:09:13 +0100, Nicky posted:
>
>>On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:37:41 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:43 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel posted:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:05:37 -0600, in
>>>><uujf24pj2hsdfl1ls9kcqrtq8p4cm4udnd@4ax.com> Oleg Lego <rat@atatatat.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> roses are #FF0000
>>>>> violets are #0000FF
>>>>> all my base
>>>>> are belong to you
>>>>
>>>>Oh, that's funny!
>>>
>>>Isn't it though? I just realized I was posting it here, due to making
>>>it my default .sig and forgetting to change my asd .sig.
>>>
>>>I read it on http://www.thinkgeek.com, in their product listings. It
>>>was on a Tshirt they sell. The #FF0000 is written in red and #0000FF
>>>is in blue.
>>>
>>>Have a look at their "illuminated TShirts". I have the "T-Qualizer on
>>>my Christmas wish list.
>>
>>Is a way cool sig, Larry - sparked off a neat discussion with my 13yo,
>>who demanded a translation; I made her get there the hard way,
>>starting with binary :P
>
>But did she get the "all my base are belong to you" reference?

Oh, yes, she got that first :P

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25