Hypertension and sugar! Cinnamon and Curcumin for sugar control

I hope that everyone is becoming aware of the HUGE cholesterol con-job we've all been suffering from. Sugar is implicated in heart disease and it plays a big role in hypertension too.

Without having any scientific proof, I have no problem with this statement:

When a food is good for you, it’s not just good for your heart, it's good for your entire body.

When a food is bad for you, it's bad all over.

Sugar is bad on your figure, brain, heart, and every organ including the largest: your skin.



Sugar-sweetened beverages and hypertension.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21142633

Potential role of sugar (fructose) in the epidemic of hypertension, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease1,2,3
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
http://www.ajcn.org/content/86/4/899.abstract

Sugar, not just salt, linked to high blood pressure
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/01/glucose.blood.pressure/index.html

Patterns: Added Sugar and High Blood Pressure
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/research/06patterns.html

There's very, very few studies on how beneficial cinnamon and curcumin are for controlling blood sugar. The lack of studies doesn't represent that they're not effective.

My belief is, based simply on profit and loss, is that the lack of many studies on ANY un-patentable natural substance is an indicator that it has the potential of being very effective.

Improved Insulin Resistance and Lipid Metabolism by Cinnamon Extract through Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602825/

Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/26/12/3215.full

Turmeric
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/turmeric-000277.htm

Effect of curcumin supplementation on blood glucose, plasma insulin, and glucose homeostasis related enzyme activities in diabetic db/db mice.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18398869

Curcumin inhibits glucose production in isolated mice hepatocytes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221818