Cinnamon believed to have medical benefits

2017年12月12日

Beginner

Pre-reading questions:

  1. Do you like the taste of cinnamon? Please explain your answer.
  2. What healthy foods do you eat?

Vocabulary:

  1. medical [adjective] – related to medicine, or for cure of disease

    2. We grow plants for medical use.

  2. cinnamon [noun] – a spice made from the bark of the cinnamon tree

    3. My mother always bakes bread with cinnamon.

  3. blood sugar [noun] – level of sugar in the blood; high or low

    4. Her blood sugar level is high so she should not eat chocolates.

  4. research [noun] – a study to discover information about something

    5. We have a research about the benefits of eating peanuts.

  5. spice [noun] – something used to add taste to food

    6. She uses different spices when cooking.

Cinnamon is believed to have medical benefits. One of the most positive effects of cinnamon is lowering blood sugar on patients. Still, experts think it’s too soon to recommend using cinnamon as a daily medicine. Further research should be done to study more about cinnamon’s health benefits. For now, cinnamon can still be used as a popular spice.

True or False:

  1. Cinnamon doesn’t have any medical benefits.
  2. Lowering blood sugar is one of the positive effects of cinnamon.
  3. Experts recommend cinnamon to be used daily.
  4. Enough research were done to study cinnamon’s health benefits.
  5. Cinnamon can still be used as a popular spice.