Researchers for the United States Agricultural Research Service published a report last month in the journal Phytomedicine. Clinical studies have been mixed. When cells are able to take in sugar and use it, the sugar is unable to cause harm by traveling throughout your body via the bloodstream. In the presence of cinna human fat cells were better able to take in sugar than were the "control cells".

The study sho that cinna regulated the expression of genes that have to do with insulin and sugar in the fat cells of mice. Workers at the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University in Canada, looked at the ability of fat cells to take in glucose (sugar) in the presence of cinnamon.

In one study, volunteers who ate cinna for 40 days had 18 per cent reduction in cholesterol and 24 per cent reduction in their blood sugar levels.

In another study, volunteers eating rice pudding with cinnamon... The article was consistent with an report published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. Their after meals or post prandial blood.

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