Fat Cells Feel the Burn when Metabolism is Spiced with Cinnamon

If you want to lose weight, you should avoid stuffing yourself with cinnamon rolls and other cinnamon-spiced treats. Yet cinnamon itself isn’t the problem. The common holiday spice might actually protect against obesity and hyperglycemia.Cinnamon contains an essential oil, cinnamaldehyde, that has been shown to improve the metabolic health of mice. A new study indicates that cinnamaldehyde is also beneficial in human adipocytes, or fat cells, where it reprograms metabolism and stokes therm