Excuse me but the whole premise of this article is ridiculous. According to Dr. Hyla Cass, if this holiday season you eat spice cakes and pumpkin pies, and
baked apples or even one of those fruit cakes that get sent as gifts but are never actually eaten, you will be eating more cinnamon than you usually do... and according to Dr. Cass, a reknowned doctor and assistant professor
at U.C.L.A., etc. etc.... "that is a good thing..." (???!!!)
To tell you the truth... I would be ashamed to write such an article, and put my real name on it... I would hide my identity... I would use a pseudonym... I would be afraid to have my colleagues know that I wrote such crap, which shouts and waves my ignorance on the topic of controlling blood glucose to the world...
I wouldn't even write it, because it harms the readers who
know less than I do about blood glucose control.
I GUARANTEE that if you get your cinnamon from spice
cakes and pumpkin pies and baked apples and fruit cakes,
you will also put your blood glucose way up, and "according
to Ellis" you will end up getting diabetes somewhere
down the road... (remember, I mean 10 or 30 or 40 or 60 or
100 years down the road... so you might not make the
connection between diabetes, then, and spice cakes and
pumpkin pie, now... "Doctors" might even say you died of
a heart attack, you never got diabetes... But "according
to Ellis" you died of diabetes, you died from eating
incorrectly...)
I don't care how much cinnamon is contained in all the
garbage she mentions, it is not enough good to overcome
the 100 grams or more of SUGAR that is contained in the
200 grams or more of sweets you are about to eat.
What I am saying is true only for people who are
in good health and who want to remain in good health for
as long as you can. Once your health is gone, throw all
the strict advice that I give on this post or on my
website out the window, and eat whatever you want to,
because you are going to die soon.
Now I want to make my position on cinnamon and fiber
and vitamins protein and enzymes and other nutrients
perfectly clear... I will call it "Toussier's Rule of
Cinnamon"...
"DON'T EAT SOMETHING THAT IS BAD
FOR YOUR HEALTH TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU HOPE IS GOOD FOR
YOUR HEALTH"
Almost no food is entirely "good" or entirely "bad". Almost anything you eat is partly "good" because of the protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that it contains and partly "bad" because of the fat or glucose raising carbohydrates that it contains. The difference is in the proportion of good and bad in each food. It is your job to choose foods that are mostly good, such as vegetables, rather than foods that are mostly bad, such as breakfast cereals or dried fruits or sweet marmalades.
YOU CANNOT GET MOSTLY GOOD RESULTS IF YOU EAT MOSTLY BAD FOOD.
You can only get MOSTLY GOOD RESULTS if you eat MOSTLY GOOD FOOD.
The corollary is that if you eat MOSTLY BAD FOOD you will get MOSTLY BAD RESULTS... and it will ALWAYS do more harm than good.
You will take a small step backwards, which means you will age a little bit faster than the minimum necessary, or burn out a few more beta cells than the
minimum you could have burned, etc...
So... If you want to eat cinnamon because you think it will lower
your blood glucose or lower your resistance to insulin, I don't particularly agree with that, but I am not going to argue with you about it.
BUT DON'T EAT SPICE CAKE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS CINNAMON...
Eat cinnamon or cinnamon extract or whatever, alone, or
in a pill, or whatever.
The 3 or 4 grams of cinnamon that comes together with 150 grams of carbs
in spice cake or cinnamon rolls is very good, but the 100 grams of carbs is going to cause you more harm than the cinnamon is going to do you good.
The same goes for any food. Don't get your vitamins from rice. Don't get your fiber from bread. Don't get digestive enzymes from grape candy or papaya pie or apple strudel. Don't get your protein from spaghetti.
Get your daily requirements of protein and vitamins and fiber and enzymes and essential oils from healthy sources.
That means: ANIMAL ORIGIN: chicken, meat, fish, eggs, milk and milk products, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, and beans, nuts, and cereals (but not dry breakfast cereals.)
Period.
I didn't say you can eat BREAD or SWEETS or SUGAR.
Everything that Dr. Cass recommends in her opening paragraphs
is BREAD or SWEETS or SUGAR... It is all GARBAGE FOR YOUR BODY: Spice cakes, pumpkin pie, cinnamon rolls, French toast, cinnamon apple strudel, etc.
I'm sorry to be so strict and tell you that what you wish would be, does not exist. I hate to be the one that tells you that you can't behave badly today without getting your punishment later. If there is no "later" then you can eat whatever you want to. Today is the first day of the rest
of your life, unless today is the last day of your life.
I was very sad to hear that when Jacqueline Kennedy knew that she was dying of cancer, she decided to splurge and eat all the sweets and delicious foods that she had not eaten when she was healthy. I agree with what she did.
If I had been in her shoes, I would do the same thing. Jacqueline Kennedy knew she was going to die soon after, so she could eat bad and delicious food, and have no additional punishment.
I'm happy to say, I still can't eat too much BREAD and SWEETS and SUGAR like Jacqueline Kennediy did because I have too much to lose.
And I hope YOU are in the same case that I am, and YOU understand what I just wrote, too. - Ellis
