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  • Cinnamon Warning: Cinnamon Challenge Can Lead To Lung Scarring, According to Report

    The “cinnamon challenge” is one of those Internet things that you just can’t help but see from time to time. You know the deal. You take a tablespoon of cinnamon and try to swallow it within sixty seconds without taking a drink.

    You don’t have to try it to be able to tell that it won’t be a lot of fun. It turns out that it may actually be physically harmful. A new report out Monday indicates that it can lead to inflamed and scarred tissue. Chicago Tribune reporter Rachael Levy discusses the report:

    The report, whose results will also be published in an article in the May edition of the Pediatrics health journal, was based on testing with rats. Dr. Steven Lipshultz, the lead researcher, said the rats were made to breathe in cinnamon powder one time, then were followed as they aged.

    “(The) cinnamon would coat the airways and the lungs (of the animals) and it would lead to inflammation,” Lipshultz said. “It wouldn’t stop there. The inflammation led to scarring in the lungs, something called pulmonary fibrosis.”

    Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis can include shortness of breath, chronic dry/hacking cough, fatigue and weakness, chest discomfort, loss of appetite, and rapid weight loss. It is often a secondary effect of interstitial lung diseases, including autoimmune disorders. Causes for the condition can include inhalation of asbestosis, cigarette smoking, and radiation therapy to the chest.

    Based on this new research, we might be able to add inhaling cinnamon to the list. Of couse, the research is not conclusive, but still, this seems like another reason (in case you needed one) to avoid the challenge.

    The following video has nearly 30 million views on YouTube, and that’s one of MANY:

  • Cinnamon Challenge? Take the Chili Challenge! [Video]

    Enough with the Cinnamon Challenge. I mean, it’s alright for getting girls to totally lose their composure at parties, but where’s the modern-day equivalent for men?

    In days of yore, manhood was proven through feats of strength – carrying boulders, tearing phone books, tossing dwarves. Nowadays we’re left with amazing feats of stupidity performed before web cams.

    But, if you’re gonna go the self-abuse through food route, don’t go with something sugar-and-spice. Be a man.

    Now, why would a fool do something like this? The clue is in his sign-off at the end. Despite being in tremendous pain and discomfort, he still manages to stammer out his Twitter and YouTube handles, followed by the plea, “Subscribe to me, cuz I’m risking my life for laughs!”

  • Principal Who Turned Blind Eye To Cinnamon Challenge Placed On Leave

    I wonder how much pain and embarrassment has been caused by the words “I bet you can’t do that?” I bet you can’t jump over that. I bet you can’t drink all that. I bet you can’t eat all of that.

    People has been doing stupid things since long before the advent of the internet. But YouTube has added one new dimension to people doing stupid stuff – the viral dimension. Now, a video of one person attempting some ridiculous feat can catch on and become a trend. Thus is the case with the Cinnamon Challenge.

    As you probably already know, the Cinnamon Challenge is simple in premise. The challenger must eat a tablespoon of ground cinnamon at one time, and get it all down. That means not vomiting or inhaling it. Oh, and you can’t wash it down with anything. According to Know Your Meme, it first hit the interwebs around 2001 but really got its start on YouTube in 2006.

    But for anyone who has watched the videos, or dare I say, tried it themselves – you know that it’s anything but simple in practice. Side effects include uncontrolled coughing, burning, nausea, breathlessness, and an overwhelming feeling of failure. Very few people succeed. Exhibit A:

    Now, the Cinnamon Challenge has led to a New Haven principal being put on leave, just because she reportedly turned a blind eye to the game being performed on school grounds.

    According to the New Haven Register, Clinton Avenue School Principal Carmen Rodriguez saw either one student or a group of students attempting the Cinnamon Challenge during lunchtime and allegedly did nothing to stop it. A purported video of the incident was on YouTube, but has since been removed by the user.

    Rodriguez has been placed on administrative leave and there is to be a full investigation into the incident.

    The Register quotes a Yale researcher as saying ““I think there is a real hazard here. I think for the most part it will cause a lot of coughing and sputtering. Some will end up aspirating cinnamon and some could have acute respiratory distress.” He also said that the possibility of foreign materials in the lungs could be a real problem for kids with asthma.

    Who am I to question that, but kids will be kids. And at least this viral trend is better than that god-awful planking crap. What do you think? Let us know in the comments. And before you do, check out some other Cinnamon Challenge videos from around the YouTubes:

    A rare success story: