comments I've included some links to the apparently increasing importance of post-prandial glucose levels from Novo-nordisk and the ADA.

Novo Nordisk
http://press.novonordisk-us.com/internal.aspx?bid=119

American Diabetes Association
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/reprint/24/4/775
http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org...print/22/4/169
http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org...eprint/20/2/71

I also found this link to an abstract which certainly supports MrsD's comments re: cinnamon

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/6/1552 (abstract only)

Here are a couple of unrelated (to this specific thread's topic) links that I found interesting too.

One describes how a nerve regeneration model was developed using capsaicin - also concludes, as we know, that small-fiber abnormalities are evident long before the frank presentation of symptoms or signs of diabetes are manifested.
nerve fiber regeneration model
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/127/7/1606

The other is a comparison of patients with polyneuropathies, both small-fiber and large fibers and concludes that small diameter fiber loss and the corresponding sensory symptoms (pain, etc) can be more dramatic in patenits with mixed neuropathies, i.e small and large fiber involvement rather than small-fiber alone. The paper also gives a nice description of the compelemtarity of NCS (nerve conduction studies), IENFD (intraepidermal nerve fiber density, and QST (quantitative sudomotor testing) since the tests reflect different nerve fiber involvement, i.e. no one test can determine all neuropathies.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/p...mcqs/feb06.pdf

hopefully this may prove useful to the forum.
Alkymst