Blood-sugar crashes
Inhale the scent of cinnamon for 30 seconds before eating, and you’ll feel full sooner and effortlessly shed a pound weekly, say scientists at Chicago’s Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation. Thanks goes to a compound (methylhydroxychalcone) that stimulates the feel-full center of the brain. Bonus: Physiologist Tom Solomon, Ph.D., says eating 1⁄ tsp. of cinnamon
2 daily steadies blood sugar and cuts the risk of energy crashes in half.