Superfoods part 29
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Today’s post: Thursday, 5-25-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 29
Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is a superfood.
Many people like it as a spice. And, many more like it when it’s combined with other spices. (It’s in & goes well with pumpkin pie spice. And, cinnamon plus ginger plus dark molasses is the spice combination for gingerbread.)
Some chef’s even use a tiny bit of it in some of their savory dishes as a secret ingredient to add an extra flavor note.
It can go a long way towards helping you enjoy some of the health enhancing foods.
And, it has a very valuable health benefit.
One day some researchers decided to find out by how much eating apple pie boosted the blood sugar levels of the people in their study.
It didn’t.
There was no significant boost of blood sugar at all from eating apple pie.
Eating baked potatoes or donuts or cherry pie all would have boosted the test subject’s blood sugar levels.
So the researchers then set about finding why apple pie didn’t.
It turns out the reason it didn’t was the researchers had used an apple pie with a traditional recipe that included plenty of cinnamon.
Later testing proved that the cinnamon enabled people to eat a food that would normally boost, or over-boost, blood sugar levels & have their blood sugar level stay stable.
Since too high blood sugar levels tend to produce type II diabetes, which in turn can have some serious health effects like triggering a fatal heart attack, eating as little added sugar as possible & on as few occasions as possible is a good health practice.
(People who have type II diabetes have to pay to get blood test monitors & use them every day. They have to pay up for extra doctor visits. And they tend to have to pay for multiple drug prescriptions since doctors have found that multiple drugs produce better & more lasting blood sugar control. And, type II diabetes doubles to quadruples the risk of all cardiovascular disease from impotence to heart disease & reduces the ability of your immune system to protect you from the flu & other disease.)
But what can you do if you go to a birthday party or birthday dinner & have some of the cake?
What can you do on those occasions when you do have some sugar on your oatmeal?
Or eat a dark chocolate candy bar? Or drink lemonade on a hot day?
You can cut your risk a lot from the sugar you eat on such occasions with cinnamon.
When you add the sugar yourself, simply add a good bit of cinnamon also.
I’ve found this very effective personally, since I can use half as much sugar & still enjoy the taste as much as if I used twice the sugar. And the sugar I do eat has no or far less of a negative effect on my blood sugar levels.
And, when you know you will eat some sugar at a special occasion, you can take some cinnamon with you.
No, it doesn’t work well with chocolate cake as far as I know.
But you can stir it in to water, fruit juice, or coffee or tea & drink it that way when you eat a food on a special occasion that has a lot of sugar.
>>> Two recent health news items that go well with this information are:
1) Lemonade made with 4 fluid ounces of lemon juice -- & drunk once a day – has successfully has treated people with kidney stones & made their kidney stones smaller. And, there’s some evidence it can prevent kidney stones from forming in people who tend to get them.
2) Researchers recently discovered that both dark chocolate & milk chocolate boost your ability to focus mentally & speed your reaction time.
The really interesting news is that milk chocolate boosted the memory skills of the people in the study MORE THAN the dark chocolate did.
So, even though dark chocolate eaten with no milk does have more health benefits, you may have occasions when you want to learn or recall things better when you can perform better by eating milk chocolate just before you study or take a test.
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today’s post: Thursday, 5-25-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 29
Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is a superfood.
Many people like it as a spice. And, many more like it when it’s combined with other spices. (It’s in & goes well with pumpkin pie spice. And, cinnamon plus ginger plus dark molasses is the spice combination for gingerbread.)
Some chef’s even use a tiny bit of it in some of their savory dishes as a secret ingredient to add an extra flavor note.
It can go a long way towards helping you enjoy some of the health enhancing foods.
And, it has a very valuable health benefit.
One day some researchers decided to find out by how much eating apple pie boosted the blood sugar levels of the people in their study.
It didn’t.
There was no significant boost of blood sugar at all from eating apple pie.
Eating baked potatoes or donuts or cherry pie all would have boosted the test subject’s blood sugar levels.
So the researchers then set about finding why apple pie didn’t.
It turns out the reason it didn’t was the researchers had used an apple pie with a traditional recipe that included plenty of cinnamon.
Later testing proved that the cinnamon enabled people to eat a food that would normally boost, or over-boost, blood sugar levels & have their blood sugar level stay stable.
Since too high blood sugar levels tend to produce type II diabetes, which in turn can have some serious health effects like triggering a fatal heart attack, eating as little added sugar as possible & on as few occasions as possible is a good health practice.
(People who have type II diabetes have to pay to get blood test monitors & use them every day. They have to pay up for extra doctor visits. And they tend to have to pay for multiple drug prescriptions since doctors have found that multiple drugs produce better & more lasting blood sugar control. And, type II diabetes doubles to quadruples the risk of all cardiovascular disease from impotence to heart disease & reduces the ability of your immune system to protect you from the flu & other disease.)
But what can you do if you go to a birthday party or birthday dinner & have some of the cake?
What can you do on those occasions when you do have some sugar on your oatmeal?
Or eat a dark chocolate candy bar? Or drink lemonade on a hot day?
You can cut your risk a lot from the sugar you eat on such occasions with cinnamon.
When you add the sugar yourself, simply add a good bit of cinnamon also.
I’ve found this very effective personally, since I can use half as much sugar & still enjoy the taste as much as if I used twice the sugar. And the sugar I do eat has no or far less of a negative effect on my blood sugar levels.
And, when you know you will eat some sugar at a special occasion, you can take some cinnamon with you.
No, it doesn’t work well with chocolate cake as far as I know.
But you can stir it in to water, fruit juice, or coffee or tea & drink it that way when you eat a food on a special occasion that has a lot of sugar.
>>> Two recent health news items that go well with this information are:
1) Lemonade made with 4 fluid ounces of lemon juice -- & drunk once a day – has successfully has treated people with kidney stones & made their kidney stones smaller. And, there’s some evidence it can prevent kidney stones from forming in people who tend to get them.
2) Researchers recently discovered that both dark chocolate & milk chocolate boost your ability to focus mentally & speed your reaction time.
The really interesting news is that milk chocolate boosted the memory skills of the people in the study MORE THAN the dark chocolate did.
So, even though dark chocolate eaten with no milk does have more health benefits, you may have occasions when you want to learn or recall things better when you can perform better by eating milk chocolate just before you study or take a test.
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