A new study to be published Monday suggests that attempts to complete the Cinnamon Challenge—a YouTube-originating stunt that calls for someone to record themselves trying to swallow a spoonful of ...

CHICAGO Doctors again are sounding the alarm on the "cinnamon challenge," a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos that has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison ...

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, Mary Poppins famously sang, but a spoonful of cinnamon can cause dangerous side effects. That is the warning from concerned parents, school ...

A decades-old stunt in which thrill-seeking teens swallow a tablespoon of dry cinnamon with no water, gag and spew out a cloud of orange dust went viral in 2012, resulting in more than 50,000 YouTube ...

Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls ...

It’s a relatively simple dare, but teens are sending themselves to the hospital by attempting the “cinnamon challenge.” The objective is to swallow a tablespoonful of cinnamon in under 60 seconds — a ...

DALLAS - It's an online dare, a challenge to swallow a teaspoon of cinnamon without water in 60 seconds. Those who have tried the cinnamon challenge say unlike a spoonful of sugar, the spice does not ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Doctors say the so-called “Cinnamon ...

Swallowing a tablespoon of the dry spice on a dare could lead to serious health problems, according to the latest report on the practice. The so-called cinnamon challenge went viral in 2012 as over 50 ...

Last year the "Cinnamon Challenge" went viral with over 50,000 videos on YouTube depicting coughing teens trying to eat a spoonful of the spice. But the stunt can be dangerous, especially if cinnamon ...

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"Kids have been daring each other to do stupid stuff since the beginning of time," says Ellen Pollock at Bloomberg Businessweek. But social media has taken inane one-upmanship to a new level, making ...