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Skriven 2012-09-27 16:21:13 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: cinnamon 301
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Hi Michael,

 ML> shouldn't you be recovering some function, and couldn't
 ML> that be a factor in your increasingly normal response

 RH> We suspect that may be somewhat so. I'm still watching things closely
 RH> tho but at least my primary care doctor has given us the OK to adjust
 RH> the insulin dose downward if my morning readings go down. This
 RH> morning's was 77, within the range she set for this amount of insulin
 RH> but on the lower end (70-130) of the range.

 ML> See, to me that's low. They seem to keep readjusting the numbers
 ML> down, and at some point my rise met their fall and I became
 ML> prediabetic and now diabetic without much real change. I seem to
 ML> remember 100-plus being ideal, and now it's high.

Part of it depends on gender, A1C count, etc. You are allowed 60-75
carbs per meal but I am allowed 45-60. That's a gender difference. I
remember being told that a reading of 126 for blood glucose meant that
you had gone over the edge to being diabetic. So many things have
changed over the years.............but as you say, the numbers seem to
be heading downward. Are we getting paranoid as a society about
diabetes? Possibly, and that could be why they want lower than
previously accepted numbers as the new normal.

 ML> I've heard of people buying cinnamon and empty capsules,
 ML> but if I tried, I'd just eat half a teaspoon (or whatever
 ML> the dose would be) out of the container.
 RH> I'm not sure if it's half or a whole teaspoon of cinnamon but it's
 RH> easier for me to use the capsules. We have both Mexican and regular
 RH> cinnamon on hand but thet're used in more cooking/baking.

 ML> There's an article available from the American Diabetes
 ML> Association, which otherwise remains agnostic on the subject:
 ML> tinyurl.com/cinnamondiabetes - apparently the effective dose is
 ML> quite small - 1 to 3 grams a day, 1/4 ts to less than 1 ts. In
 ML> fact well within the culinary dose, if you will.

Just have to find enough of a variety of things to put it on/in. Easier
to pop a capsule for most people. Most of the time our meals are ones
where cinnamon wouldn't be a complimentary flavor so I grab a capsule
out of convenience.


 ML>       Title: ROYAL HOT CHOCOLATE
 ML>  Categories: Beverages
 ML>       Yield: 8 servings

 ML>       2 oz HERSHEY'S Baking Chocolate
 ML>            -(Unsweetened),
 ML>            - broken into pieces
 ML>       1 cn Sweetened condensed milk
 ML>            -(14 oz.)
 ML>       4 c  Boiling water
 ML>       1 ts Vanilla extract
 ML>       1 ds Salt
 ML>            Whipped cream
 ML>            Ground cinnamon

Rather high carb that way; now I'd use almond or soy milk and stevia for
the sweetened condensed milk & water. That brings it more within a more
realistic carb count.


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