Cinnamon for Weight Loss

The thought of cinnamon probably conjures up images of hot apple pie, warm cinnamon buns, cinnamon toast … not exactly the kind of foods you associate with weight loss. But amazingly, research has recently discovered that this sweet, tasty spice can play a hand in helping you drop a pants size or two.

Hard to believe? I’ll show you the evidence if you read on…

For this study, researchers at Ball State University recruited 30 adults, and gave them two separate meals, spaced a week apart.

Meal #1: A bowl of hot cereal
Meal #2: A bowl of hot cereal with two and a half teaspoons of cinnamon.

Both times researchers measured blood sugar before the meal and then again two hours after eating.

Here’s what they found…

The cereal with cinnamon significantly improved blood sugar balance. In fact, the cinnamon-spiked cereal resulted in a 24 percent reduction in total blood sugar during the two-hour post-meal period.¹ The reason for this appears to be cinnamon’s ability to help your insulin work more efficiently.

What’s weight got to do with it?

Everything … If you’re overweight, you’re likely experiencing some level of insulin resistance. What this means is that the insulin in your body has become less effective at lowering your blood sugar, making it harder to lose weight, even when following a low-calorie diet.

And when your body isn’t using sugar properly, you’ll often crave sugars or carbohydrates. It’s a losing game because as you consume more of the sugar you crave, less of it is being converted into energy… Instead it’s being stored as body fat.

This is why cinnamon’s ability to help your insulin work more efficiently² can have a direct impact on your waistline.