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[kingleonidas]

Does cinnamon help diabetics? My doc said it does nothing !

[jenb]

I don't know if it does anything for diabetics, but I sure like in on my fruit in the morning!

Jen

[dbaratta]

Does cinnamon help diabetics? My doc said it does nothing !

Studies say that it does, but it is not a completely proven fact. Try some cinnamon tea and see if it effects you. I bet it is like anything else, everybody's experience will be different.

[owlyn]

Does cinnamon help diabetics? My doc said it does nothing !

That's been discussed here many times before- some say it helps, most say it doesn't. Anyway, try searching for it. Also, please stop puttting >> after all your titles. I know it makes it easier for you to find your posts, but it is rude and annoying. No one else does anything like that. Thanks.

[kingleonidas]

Ok, didnt think that ">>" was rude. I'll stop. Excuse me. Gimme a break, I just got here.

[DannyK]

That's been discussed here many times before- some say it helps, most say it doesn't. Anyway, try searching for it. Also, please stop puttting >> after all your titles. I know it makes it easier for you to find your posts, but it is rude and annoying. No one else does anything like that. Thanks.


WHAT in the WORLD is rude about that, much less, annoying?

Kingleonidas, you just keep on asking questions that are important to you, and take comments like his as "water off a ducks back."

If you said, or asked ANYTHING that was rude OR annoying enough, the mods would let you know...NOT someone who was obviously just having a bad day!

[kingleonidas]

Thanks Danny, I appreciate that !

[Josselyn]

Originally posted by kingleonidas
Ok, didnt think that ">>" was rude. I'll stop. Excuse me. Gimme a break, I just got here.You did nothing wrong, kingleonidas. You are as welcome here as any of us. It's good that you're asking questions. And as DannyK stated, if there was a real problem with any aspect of your postings, a moderator would eventually be involved.

FYI: many times, rather than start a new thread, you can search through older postings here under the various forum titles to locate threads with the topics you're interested in...like the cinnamon. In many cases, you'll have instant feedback from many people who have previously discussed the topic.
I think that's what owlyn was referring to.

[Bountyman]

I'm new to diabetes, too, as well as the forum. You're gonna hear a lot of rhetoric about "helpful" additives. Rather they work or not is going to be tough to consider. Some things might help, if taken long enough, and in such a way you might not even notice it without test readouts from your hospital. Some things may help almost overnight...then your body gets used to them and they're no longer effective, like a lot of todays pharmaceuticals.

I talked to a guy the other day while sitting and waiting to see my PA and he said I oughta go have a lap-band procedure that morbidly overweight people have because it would cure my type I diabetes. I told him that my type I diabetes was caused by the beta cells in my pancreas dying and that wasn't reversible. He said, "oh, that's not true, they grow back with lap-band surgery!" I thought, that's all I need to do is contact Medicare and tell 'em I want a $20,000-$30,000 lap-band surgery to cure my diabetes. They'd take me off insulin and have me doing the "thorozine shuffle"!

My neighbor's a type II diabetic and drinks a huge glass of this fiber stuff with his carbohydrates. Says that the fiber stuff blocks the digestion of some of the carbohydrates so he can eat a whole potato with his 12 oz steak. This may be...I don't know, but maybe cinnamon does something similar to that. By that I mean it may help your body deal with sugars and carbohydrates. In that case you may have to take huge amounts of cinnamon extracts in a pill form along with the sugars and carbohydrates - where just sprinkling a bunch of cinnamon in your Christmas egg nog won't do squat.

FWIF

[dbaratta]

Ok, didnt think that ">>" was rude. I'll stop. Excuse me. Gimme a break, I just got here.

I'm sorry I don't get why >> is rude? Why would it matter what someone puts in the subject line? :confused:

[dbaratta]

I talked to a guy the other day while sitting and waiting to see my PA and he said I oughta go have a lap-band procedure that morbidly overweight people have because it would cure my type I diabetes. I told him that my type I diabetes was caused by the beta cells in my pancreas dying and that wasn't reversible. He said, "oh, that's not true, they grow back with lap-band surgery!" I thought, that's all I need to do is contact Medicare and tell 'em I want a $20,000-$30,000 lap-band surgery to cure my diabetes. They'd take me off insulin and have me doing the "thorozine shuffle"!

FWIF

Most people don't understand.. My aunt insisted I got get gastric bi-pass surgery, um, you have to be at least 100 pounds over-weight to qualify for that (at least that is what My doc told me). She said it cured her friend's diabetes. Um sure. It makes it impossible (at first) to eat large amounts of food so the diabetes is being controlled by lack of food in this case. A woman at work had that surgery and she is off all meds for her diabetes BUT she is a type 2 and my guess was she was overweight by 200 pounds at the time of her surgery. She lost about 150 now and is doing great.....so her diabetes can be controlled with diet alone (she sure doesn't exercise).

Anyway......got off on a tangent I think, sorry about that. I would never tell anyone to get surgery for anything unless their life depended on it. The surgery alone can kill you.....

[owlyn]

I'm sorry I don't get why >> is rude? Why would it matter what someone puts in the subject line? :confused:

Because if everyone started putting their own special marks in the subject line in EVERY post they write, the board would look like a scrambled mess and be that much harder to follow. It's sort of the visual equivalent of someone playing their music in the office, and it can be heard by others. Now suppose everyone did it. It would be cacaphony.

What's the point of the ">>" anyway? To call attention to his post over someone else's? To make it easier for him to find his own posts?

[kingleonidas]

Just the way I have written on many boards for years and you seem to be the only one complaining !

[owlyn]

Ok, didnt think that ">>" was rude. I'll stop. Excuse me. Gimme a break, I just got here.

I said "please" :)

[kingleonidas]

No problem ! On to new things !

[dbaratta]

Because if everyone started putting their own special marks in the subject line in EVERY post they write, the board would look like a scrambled mess and be that much harder to follow. It's sort of the visual equivalent of someone playing their music in the office, and it can be heard by others. Now suppose everyone did it. It would be cacaphony.

What's the point of the ">>" anyway? To call attention to his post over someone else's? To make it easier for him to find his own posts?

Seriously I don't see it as a problem. Not even if everyone put something like that in the subject line, but then I don't expect anything is going to bother me either LOL. I am super easy going.....and. well....kind of think this is funny LOL

:D

[TommyC1]

Funny thing I didn't even notice those >> things until I read Olwyns post.

Now they keep stabbing me in the eyes. Ouch!

I never realized all caps was SHOUTING either, until I read it somewhere. Now I can almost hear it.

I wonder what other surprises lurk on these boards?

[It Ain't Over]

I wonder what other surprises lurk on these boards?

Perhaps useful information?

[strack350]

WOW, enough about the >> thing already, let's all have a group hug and discuss the benefits, or lack thereof that cinnamon has:)

[shiftzor]

Because if everyone started putting their own special marks in the subject line in EVERY post they write, the board would look like a scrambled mess and be that much harder to follow. It's sort of the visual equivalent of someone playing their music in the office, and it can be heard by others. Now suppose everyone did it. It would be cacaphony.

What's the point of the ">>" anyway? To call attention to his post over someone else's? To make it easier for him to find his own posts?

I agree, although its not really rude more forum etiquette. To find all threads or posts you can simply click on yourself and select find all posts by xx. i.e. Go here (http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/search/id/968183/). Anyway back to the topic. ;)

Never tried cinnamon, but there has been plenty of speculation about it.

[Luke]

I have found my sugar levels are more "steady" when I take two cinnimon pills each day. I just buy them from Wal Mart.