Cinnamon: Overview of health benefits

Nutrition Today

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 263-266

  Singletary, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 67650911325     PISSN: 0029666X     EISSN: 15389839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NT.0000342702.19798.fe     Document Type: Article

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