Re: Cinnamon is the Wonder Spice for Health and Wellbeing

If cinnamon works for you - great!!!  But, it does not work for everyone.  That's why in previous posts I wrote that everyone has to find what works and what doesn't work for them.  

I also control my Type II with diet alone - no medications.  I know what does and what doesn't raise my blood sugars and I know what brings it down.  Both apple cider vinegar and exercise bring it down.  Neither one may work for you.

I've tried many many things including chromium (you can't over do it or it will cause other problems), bitter melon, ginseng, Vitamin E, garlic, MSM, pycnogenols/grape seed extract/pine bark cinnamon, and several others.  The only thing that works for me are - ACV and exercise.  In fact, if you're Type II and not doing some kind of scheduled exercise you're asking for a lot of trouble.

Again - in the beginning each person should test, test, test, fasting levels in the morning, after meals of all kinds, pre-exercise and after exercise - until you know what you're body is telling you.  How I feel has nothing to do with my blood sugar levels and I've had levels as high as 215.  Plain steel cut oatmeal with no sweetener or milk raises my blood sugar to 185.  On the Yahoo diabetes support group list a person there could eat oatmeal all day and it didn't bother her blood sugar levels but things that don't bother mine, bothered hers.  No two people are alike when it comes to diabetes - except, there are programs out there that will help you control it better - and the Bernstein method is best.  He touts several natural supplements along with a high protein diet.

Glad you can control your blood sugar levels without meds.  I do it too.