Honey & cinnamon?

Other than it being delicious apparently it's supposed to have some health benefits. So I guess I'm eating healthy when I have a big ol' cinnamon roll lathered in honey?

Here is a text I got recently from a friend. What say ye, snake oil or a good thing?

I am amazed! On Pinterest, I found a pin about the "miracle" of cinnamon and honey. There r different ratios to cure everything so I went for the ratio to lose weight. Not sure about that one but my arthritis is much much better. I have arthritis in my hands, feet and back. It is so much better. I've put Joey on it now.

What u need to know...buy unheated filtered local honey. (I found mine at the produce stand) and REAL cinnamon( I bought Ceylon cinnamon at the health food store). The cinnamon is a big ole bag that will last forever but it does cost $23. It will last for months...maybe a year. I do not make a tea of the cinnamon...too much trouble.

I make a paste and eat it on a cracker twice a day. Joey, my brilliant husband, suggested I make up a big batch and then we just have to dip it and eat it and not mix it up as needed. The ratio we use is 1 tsp. honey to 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. If u try it let me know if it helps u.

Cinnamon has been used in various supplements over the years, often to help with circulatory issues. (Anti-inflammatory of sorts maybe? I don't know, never looked into it.)

The honey thing... never really heard. But it sure does taste good.

Intriguing. I have seen cinnamon tablets for sale in big bottles at Sam's Club, so it must be in vogue as some sort of herbal remedy. Honey has long enjoyed that distinction. I'd be interested in knowing what sort of ills it is credited with alleviating.

I'd consider it bullE36 M3 until proven otherwise...like everything else, really.

The only non-bullE36 M3 medicinal property of honey I know about is that it's anti-bacterial and will help wounds heal faster when applied as a dressing...so that's useful if you ever wake up in the stone age and need to treat scratches from a saber-toothed tiger.

local honey (local to wherever you live) is supposed to be really effective at reducing the effects of local allergies. i have heard that cinnamon is supposed to be good for the circulatory system.

I know that cinnamon makes my pee smell "good".

Honey is anti-bacterial. Dunno about the health benefits, but I do know that local honey helps with allergies in the spring and summer.

I'll call it snake oil, but one that you should try--if it works, great! If not, sounds tasty anyways. It certainly can't hurt, and I wouldn't be surprised if it does work, I just don't expect it to.

AngryCorvair wrote: local honey (local to wherever you live) is supposed to be really effective at reducing the effects of local allergies.

THAT, I know has been proven. it has something to do with you ingesting things made from the local flowers and such. it worked for me (heck, I like honey, and like stimulating the local economy, so it was worth a shot, and happily I am pretty much allergy free now.)

SCARRMRCC wrote:

AngryCorvair wrote: local honey (local to wherever you live) is supposed to be really effective at reducing the effects of local allergies.

THAT, I know has been proven. it has something to do with you ingesting things made from the local flowers and such. it worked for me (heck, I like honey, and like stimulating the local economy, so it was worth a shot, and happily I am pretty much allergy free now.)

Not really, but you can reduce your allergies by using them as a good placebo:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/health/10really.html?_r=0

Sorry if I just ruined the placebo effect for anyone who wanted it

The "ratios" thing makes me really dubious on its own.

ransom wrote: The "ratios" thing makes me really dubious on its own.

That, and suggesting liquid sugar would be effective for weight loss.

I would eat them because they are delicious.

This sounds like a banner ad; "One neat health trick that the pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know!"

I've been eating locally harvested honey for the past couple of years. My brother-in-law started bee keeping about 3 years ago. He has 2-3 hives in his backyard and get as much as 50 lbs a year. I even mentioned that if he wanted to he could put a hive in my back yard. It's a hobby that you can make money at which club racing is not! LOL!

Don't knock Snake Oil til you've tried it.

it has been suggested that cinnamon can help insulin dependent diabetics

carguy123 wrote: Other than it being delicious apparently it's supposed to have some health benefits. So I guess I'm eating healthy when I have a big ol' cinnamon roll lathered in honey?

The mild benefits you would get from the honey and cinnamon would be vastly disproportionate to the inflammatory nature of the simple carbs you get in the bread.... but I digress.

The problem with much of today's naturopathy is that its not supported by science.... mostly because science won't invest in testing it. I'm not supporting Glaxo-Smith-Kline by saying that, but they have billions of dollars to spend on developing drugs and even more billions paying off the FDA so that they can make record profits from it. There aren't really any grassroots movements to identify the specific chemicals that might show how honey and cinnamon can cure cancer, so it often times remains hearsay. I do know that local, unpasteurized honey can significantly help allergies for obvious reasons, but of the known chemical compounds in honey and cinnamon, I doubt there are any magic molecules.

...However... there may be some magic molecules... and if some drug company could spare some pocket change to ACTUALLY berkeleyING TEST IT, maybe we could actually help people. But, of course, testing honey doesn't help them sell "Screwyourwallet Sulfate" to the millions of people that now believe they have Restless Leg Syndrome because a commercial told them to be afraid of it.

wbjones wrote: it has been suggested that cinnamon can help insulin dependent diabetics

Yes, it has been suggested...but I'll wait for solid evidence. I'm not going to use my 9 year old son as a case study

Slightly off topic, but organic apple cider vinegar is supposed to be a natural health remedy as well.