[Someone1234]

Are you seriously suggesting that people should go buy a bunch of junk from the organic food shops just in case one of them turns out to be good for you in the future?

Adversely, what happens if one of them turns out to be a carcinogen or otherwise something that adversely affects health?

Your mom isn't wise, she just threw enough unproven stuff down her kid's throats so that it was inevitable that one of them one day might prove useful. I wonder how many damaging things (or potentially damaging) you also consumed?

[nyrulez]

Are you saying organic food is carcinogenic ? not sure what your point is.

Or are you saying one shouldn't consume random stuff ? In that case, cinnamon is not random. It's a spice in use for thousands of years with many benefits already written about in traditional medicine, like turmeric. Unless you are anti-traditional medicine....in which case suddenly a lot of the wisdom over the ages must become suspect, and even rejected.

[matznerd]

This is a really offensive comment... Plants create compounds to battle pests and radiation from the sun. A lot of these compounds such as anthocyanins and phenols are extremely beneficial to healthy humans. Definitive science is actually still catching up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol

[DiabloD3]

What he said isn't offensive at all. The mothers that make their kids eat all sorts of unproven remedies, trying to stay ahead of proven science, are just as bad as the ones that refuse injections, trying to stay behind proven science.

Down vote me all you want, but there is a reason why science exists and has rigorous testing methodologies.

[driverdan]

> Plants create compounds to battle pests

You mean like Foxglove, Poison Ivy, and Rhubarb leaves, all of which are harmful to humans?

[jp555]

in-vivo or in-utero?

Garlic kills cancer cells in petrie dishes, but not at all when you eat it.