Honey and Cinnamon

Good morning all!
I recently received an e-mail about honey and cinnamon that intrigued me.  Basically what it this e-mail claims is that honey and cinnamon combined have huge possibilities for curing all kinds of diseases as well as alleviating some troublesome symptoms attached to those diseases.  Some of the claims are pretty amazing - helping prevent heart disease, curing arthritis completely, clearing up bladder infections, lowering cholesterol, curing common colds, helping with upset stomachs, relieving gas, strengthening the immune system, relieving indigestion, killing flu viruses, removing pimples, increasing life span, clearing up skin infections like eczema and ringworm, preventing and curing certain types of cancer, reducing fatigue, curing bad breath, restoring hearing, and even helping lose weight.   That is quite a hefty list. 
I did a little bit of poking around on the web to see if there had been any studies or clinical trials proving any of these claims, and didn't really find anything substantial.  I've included a couple of links at the bottom in case anyone else is interested in reading what I found. 
In regards to weight loss, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to try things like this to get around actual work.  It is possible a combination of honey and cinnamon with water helps when trying to lose weight; however, nothing is going to replace a healthy diet and exercise.  Some of the sites I found stress that both of those WITH honey and cinnamon will provide faster weight loss.  Some sites state that you didn't need to change anything at all except to drink this honey/cinnamon concoction.
I think that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That saying may be trite, but it is definitely true in my opinion.

http://healthmad.com/alternative/10-miraculous-health-benefits-of-honey-and-cinnamon-combo/
http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/How_to_Lose_Weight_Using_Cinnamon_Powder_and_Honey
http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/animal-product/health-benefits-of-honey-and-cinnamon.html
http://bio.waikato.ac.nz/honey/
This last link I found very interesting - it is a clinical study that is currently being conducted for the effect of Manuka honey for oral mucositis caused by radiation therapy for cancer.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00615420
I would definitely like to see the outcome of that study.

Blogger Music

Good afternoon everyone!  I added music to my blog a few weeks ago and someone asked me why it was skipping when they tried to listen to the song.  At first I thought maybe it was the file hosting service I was using, but I did some experimenting with it and that seemed to be okay.  So I tried it on a few different computers and eventually found out that Mozilla Firefox doesn't play .mp3 files very well.  So if you view my blog using Firefox and the music is skipping there isn't too much that can be done that I know of.  It works well in Internet Explorer but I know not everyone likes IE.  I looked into converting it from mp3 to mp4 ( IE and Firefox both play that well) but I don't really want to pay for a file converter!  So, unfortunately, you will be missing some wonderful music when you view the page with Firefox   :-P    Then again, you might be glad you can't hear the music!!
I did a ton of revision on my rough draft over the last few days.  I thought I heard Dr. Manning say not to post the draft to the discussion board until we had gotten feedback from her but I wasn't sure.  I didn't want my post to be late so I went ahead and posted it today.  When I get something back from her and if is something that I didn't already change (I changed a lot) I will do some more revision and post the new one.  I could really use some input on my draft.  So if two people have already posted, and you are incredibly bored I would appreciate any comments you feel like sending me :)
Thanks and I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Time

Wow!  Time is really flying by this term!  It seems like there isn't enough time to get everything done.  My kids will be making their first communion in April and every night it is really hectic - practicing, shopping for dresses and suits.  They are doing a sign language presentation after the ceremony so all the kids need to know this sign language by heart.  It is really neat, but a lot of work for 2nd graders who already have tons of homework and other after school obligations. 
It has definitely been a struggle this last week to get all my homework done as well.  Along with the draft, PDO, blog and reading for this class, in my other class there was a test, rough draft of an eight to ten page paper, reading and discussion of course.  Hopefully next week it will slow down a bit - I think I"m catching a cold :(
Good luck to everyone else on their assignments! 

Parlez-vous français?

In high school I took two years of French class and loved it!  I was so eager to get out of there that I graduated a year early.  My counselor at the time told me that was a big mistake and I would regret it later.  I waved her off - I knew best, of course.  Now, of course, there are many things I would have liked to do in my senior year - one of them being another year of French class!  It's such a beautiful language.  Recently I purchased a program that teaches French on the computer.  I was amazed at how much of it I remembered.  Hopefully I will be able to learn AND remember the language! 
Dans le lycée j'ai pris deux ans de classe française et cela ai aimé!J'étais si désireux de sortir là de celui je reçu un diplôme une année tôt. Ma conseiller m'a alors dit qu'était une grande erreur et je la regretterais plus tard. Je l'ai ondulée au loin - j'ai su le meilleur, naturellement. Maintenant, naturellement, il y beaucoup de choses que je voudrais faire en ma dernière année - l'un d'entre eux étant une autre année de classe française! C'est une si belle langue. Récemment j'ai acheté un programme qui enseigne le français sur l'ordinateur. J'ai été stupéfié à quelle quantité de je suis rappelé. Si tout va bien je pourrai apprendre ET se rappeler la langue!
If anyone is fluent in French, please correct my numerous mistakes! :)
What I find hard about learning it is that pretty much everything is feminine or masculine.  Also, words that I think should be spelled the same aren't!  For example, "I want" is "Je veux".  But if you are saying "you want" it is "vous voulez".  "He/she wants" is "il/elle veut".  Well, I will keep plugging away at it.

Oh!  I decided to add some music to the blog.  Every week I will have a new song playing.  Yay, music!