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Ars: Researchers Study Cinnamon Extracts
http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10095&Section=NUTRITION&source=DHB_100825&key=Body+Title
08-24-10
A study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Richard
Anderson suggests that a water soluble extract of cinnamon, which
contains antioxidative compounds, could help reduce risk factors
associated with diabetes and heart disease.
The work is part of cooperative agreements between the Beltsville
Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC) operated by USDA's
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at Beltsville, Md.; Integrity
Nutraceuticals International of Spring Hill, Tenn., and the Joseph
Fourier University in Grenoble, France. Anderson works in the Diet,
Genomics and Immunology Laboratory of BHNRC. ARS is USDAs principal
intramural scientific research agency.
For the study, conducted in Ohio, coauthor Tim N. Ziegenfuss, now with
the Center for Applied Health Sciences based in Fairlawn, Ohio,
enrolled volunteers and collected samples.
Twenty-two obese participants with impaired blood glucose values--a
condition classified as "prediabetes"--volunteered for the 12-week
experimental research study. Prediabetes occurs when cells are
resistant to the higher-than-normal levels of insulin produced by the
pancreas (in an attempt to help remove elevated glucose levels from
blood).
The volunteers were divided randomly into two groups and given either
a placebo or 250 milligrams (mgs) of a dried water-soluble cinnamon
extract twice daily along with their usual diets. Blood was collected
after an overnight fast at the beginning of the study, after six
weeks, and after 12 weeks to measure the changes in blood glucose and
antioxidants.
The study demonstrated that the water-soluble cinnamon extract
improved a number of antioxidant variables by as much as 13 to 23
percent, and improvement in antioxidant status was correlated with
decreases in fasting glucose, according to Anderson.
Only more research will tell whether the investigational study
supports the idea that people who are overweight or obese could reduce
oxidative stress and blood glucose by consuming cinnamon extracts that
have been proven safe and effective. In the meantime, weight loss
remains the primary factor in improving these numbers, according to
ARS scientists.
More details on the 2009 study can be found in the Journal of the
American College of Nutrition.
CONTACT: Rosalie Marion Bliss, ARS News Service Agricultural Research
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