Posted on January 31, 2010.
How to Use Cinnamon benefits of healthy lifestyles Cinnamon is a sweet heat that is used as a spice favorite holiday, but also used in the year of tasty dishes. It is one of the oldest spices known which is grown in the bark of a cinnamon tree. It is dried rolled in cinnamon sticks also know that quills. Cinnamon, which grows in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam and Egypt can be dried and pulverized. This powder is what we know it's an advantage for a healthy life.
The flavor and sweet aroma of cinnamon comes from a compound in the essential oil of cinnamon bark-called aldehyde.
There are four main varieties of cinnamon. the cassia and cinnamon are the most preferred. Ceylon cinnamon is sometimes called cinnamon "true", which is more expensive and has a sweeter taste. The area of most pungent sweet and can be used in a coffee grinder, and is sold in specialty stores. In North America, most stores sell the cheapest variety, cassia cinnamon. It is a darker color and spines are more difficult. It must be the ground work, because it is difficult to grind in the grinder.
Besides its use in the kitchen, and cinnamon has been used in traditional medicine, cassia cinnamon is used for colds, flatulence, nausea, diarrhea and even painful menstrual periods, and it is also believed to improve energy vitality and movement for those who have warm body up and cold feet.
What is so special about the cinnamon is that it can offer protective benefits to our health. A teaspoon of cinnamon is rich in nutrition, the supply of fiber, manganese, calcium, iron and oxidants. Cinnamon may also help reduce the growth of bacteria and reduce inflammation.
Cinnamon is a common ingredient in the chai, and is believed to improve digestion of fruit, milk and other dairy products.
Other studies have shown that only the smell of cinnamon may be able to stimulate the brain. Although research is still in its infancy, the researchers suggest that it may help lower blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides in people with type 2 diabetes.
According to Cathy Wong, in "Your Guide to Alternative Medicine", one of the first studies in 2003 in the journal Diabetes Care, sixty people with type 2 1, 3, or 6 grams of cinnamon in pill daily, equivalent to 1 / 4 tsp to 1 tsp. Cinnamon. After 40 days, all three doses of cinnamon reduced fasting blood glucose of 18-29%, triglycerides by 23-30 % and LDL (bad cholesterol 7-27% and above the total cholesterol level of 12-26 percent. Cathy said there were concerns in the study as such, there was no difference in favor of those who took three doses of cinnamon.
In another study scientists examined the effect of cinnamon on 79 people with type 2 diabetes not on insulin therapy, but taking drugs or diabetic or modifying their diet. They took about 3 grams of cinnamon or a placebo three times daily for four months. There was a significant reduction in blood glucose in people taking the cinnamon over the people taking the placebo 3 times daily for four months. There was no difference in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), which is a test that indicates how well blood sugar has been controlled over 3-4 months.
In a six-week study in which 25 postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, women were given 1.5 g of cinnamon per day or placebo. There was no effect on blood glucose, insulin sensitivity, or cholesterol levels, according to Wong.
Wong also found that in a small Swedish study published in the American Journal of Medicine "in which 14 people were given either rice pudding on its own initiative or rice pudding with cinnamon. The researchers found that those who added cinnamon reduced the postprandial rise i.