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Ypsilanti Girl Urges Teens To Say 'No' To Potentially Deadly Cinnamon Challenge

Steph — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:00:40 +0000

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. The cinnamon challenge is all over Youtube. The wildly popular stunt encourages young people to eat a spoon full of cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. It [...]

Warn Kids About 'Cinnamon Challenge' Dangers [VIDEO]

George McIntyre — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:45:01 +0000

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.’ A growing phenomenon with high school students and others in which a teaspoon of cinnamon is ingested in 60 seconds. Oh yeah, it’s glorious all right. So glorious that a Michigan teen was [...]

Michigan Teen Hospitalized After Attempting 'Cinnamon Challenge'

George McIntyre — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:11:54 +0000

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.

Principal On Leave For Letting Students Swallow Cinnamon

Erin Bishop — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:55 +0000

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.