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Cinnamon — just a tiny bit — brings down high blood sugar in Type 2 Diabetes study

Friday, August 11th, 2006

by Ken Winston Caine

You may already know that cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory — one that nicely complements ginger and turmeric.

Now test tube, animal and human studies are confirming that cinnamon lowers blood sugar.

As little has 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoonful of cinnamon per day lowered blood sugar by roughly 20% in a recent U.S. Agricultural Research Service study involving 60 diabetic volunteers who were not using insulin.

Added bonus: Their cholesterol and tryglyceride levels dropped, too.

Double bonus: Other studies have shown (more…)

> Body, > Healing, > Healing Power of Herbs, > Health food, > Herbal Medicine, > Holistic Health, > Holistic Practitioners, > Integrative Medicine, > Living with Diabetes, > Natural Healing, > Naturopathy, > Self-Healing | Comments (1)

When did term, ‘integrative medicine,’ enter the lexicon?

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Who coined the phrase, integrative medicine?

Andrew Weil has popularized the term. Has been integrative medicine’s greatest ambassador. Created incredible demand for it.

Pretigious medical schools across the country have developed departments of integrative medicine in the last decade. (Including Duke University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco, University of Arizona, Columbia University, University of Maryland, University of New Mexico, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts, Albert Einstein/Yeshiva University, Georgetown University, and the University of Minnesota, among others.)

I don’t recall being aware of the terms, integrative health, integrative medicine, integrative healing, before about 1988 or 1989.

Earliest reference I can find to “integrative health” is this (more…)

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