Numerous studies as well as direct observation tell us that a person who eats fast is likely to be overweight. A new study extends this observation to the increased risk for type 2 diabetes. The study found that the fastest eaters are 2 1/2 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
In a healthy person it takes 10 minutes for an adequate amount of food to create a full signal in your brain. You can eat a lot of extra food in 10 minutes. Once you start gaining weight the full signal system in your brain further malfunctions, meaning you are likely to eat everything in sight as fast as you can.
We can now say that this is a fast track to becoming type 2 diabetic. Slow down, have some conversation. If you are overweight and tend to be a fast eater, take a 10 minute break from eating once you are half done with a normal size meal. Give your faltering full signal a fighting chance!
It takes great willpower to stop eating after your have consumed a normal number of calories (generally 400-600 calories per meal depending on your activities). If you want to know how nutty your full signal has become, push away from the table after a normal portion and go do something else. Pay attention to how long it takes for your full signal to show up.
Be happy if it shows up within 10 minutes as the remedy to fix your faulty full signal is simply a matter of slowing down. For many overweight people it is 20 minutes to one hour – people can eat a lot of food they don’t need in that amount of time.
Eating slower is one helpful step in the right direction.
An analysis of six high quality human studies on cinnamon consumption and blood sugar has confirmed that intake of cinnamon has a beneficial effect on fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).
The best supplemental form of cinnamon is called Cinnulin PF, a special water-soluble extract originally developed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It filters out some components of cinnamon that can be toxic when taken at high doses. It is also concentrated in the most bio-active compounds in cinnamon called doubly linked Type-A Polymers.
Cinnamon helps enhance the flow of sugar in metabolism. It works to improve glucose transport by helping insulin signaling. Of course, if a person continues to eat too much then it isn’t likely to do much.
Cinnamon is a useful tool that can help correct a stressed-out blood sugar metabolism.
2 cups of coffee may shield heart
People who drank two cups of coffee a day were 11 percent less likely to have heart failure, compared with people who drank no coffee. Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body, and can be caused by factors ranging from high blood pressure to pregnancy.
Constantly drinking too much coffee, however, negates this benefit: no difference in heart failure risk was seen between non-coffee drinkers’ and those who drank more than three cups a day.
There is reason to think coffee lowers heart failure risk, the researchers said. Moderate coffee consumption may increase drinkers' caffeine tolerance, which could in turn limit their susceptibility to high blood pressure. Additionally, coffee drinking has been shown to lower the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes and hypertension are major risk factors for heart failure.
People who have already have heart failure should consume no more than one to two cups of coffee per day, according to the American Heart Association.
The researchers looked at data collected on 140,220 people in Sweden and Finland who participated in five previous studies. There were a total of 6,522 cases of heart failure between 2001 and 2011. The causes of heart failure often cannot be reversed, but the condition can be treated.
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