Cinnamon Challenge

Dejah Reed took part in a popular stunt called the cinnamon challenge three times with no consequences. The fourth time didn't go so well. Now she's speaking out.

Here's how I like to enjoy cinnamon. (It's a cinnamon roll from Gracie's in New Lothrup.) And then there's the 'Cinnamon Challenge.'

An Ann Arbor area high school student has been hospitalized after participating in a 'cinnamon challenge' where students attempt to ingest a teaspoon of cinnamon is less than 60 seconds. It's a phenomenon that's been catching on with high school students, and its popularity can be attributed partly to social networking sites and YouTube. It's also dangerous.

Students at a school in Connecticut participated in a "cinnamon challenge" during lunch and now the principal is on leave for allowing it to happen. The students were swallowing spoonfuls of cinnamon, but some say this has resulted in fits of coughing and even vomiting in other cases of this challenge going on at other schools.