“…Over the past several years, the effectiveness of cinnamon supplementation for the management of diabetes has received worldwide media attention. Several in vitro (Anderson et al, 2004;Berrio et al, 1992;Broadhurst et al, 2000;Cao et al, 2007; Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan Library] at 21:27 06 October 2012 Imparl-Radosevich et al, 1998;Jarvill-Taylor et al, 2001;Khan et al, 1990;Kim et al, 2006b;Kreydiyyeh et al, 2000;Lee, 2002;Roffey et al, 2006;Taher et al, 2004;Talpur et al, 2005) and in vivo studies (Kannappan et al, 2006;Kim et al, 2006a;2006b;Onderoglu et al, 1999;Qin et al, 2003;Subash Babu et al, 2007;Verspohl et al, 2005) on the effects of cinnamon on insulin resistance and glucose metabolism have been published. Clinical trials investigating the effects of cinnamon in healthy subjects (Hlebowitz et al, 2007;Solomon and Blannin, 2007) as well as the efficacy of cinnamon in the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2 (Altschuler et al, 2007;Blevins et al, 2007;Khan et al, 2003;Mang et al, 2006;Suppapitiporn et al, 2006;Vanschoonbeek et al, 2006) or insulin resistance (Wang et al, 2007) have also been published (see below).…”