Posted on 01/16/2017 2:33:16 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
Like spicy food? If so, you might live longer, say researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont,
who found that consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13 percent reduction in total mortality
- primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke—in a large prospective study.
Going back for centuries, peppers and spices have been thought to be beneficial in the treatment of diseases, but only one other study—conducted in China and published in 2015
- has previously examined chili pepper consumption and its association with mortality.
This new study corroborates the earlier study's findings
Data collected from more than 16,000 Americans who were followed for up to 23 years, medical student Mustafa Chopan '17 and Professor of Medicine Benjamin Littenberg, M.D.,
examined the baseline characteristics of the participants according to hot red chili pepper consumption.
They found that consumers of hot red chili peppers tended to be "younger, male, white, Mexican-American, married, and to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol,
and consume more vegetables and meats . . . had lower HDL-cholesterol, lower income, and less education," in comparison to participants who did not consume red chili peppers.
They examined data from a median follow-up of 18.9 years and observed the number of deaths and then analyzed specific causes of death.
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I still like DAVE’S INSANITY SAUCE! Even the Hispanics where I worked would not touch it!
Ah the stories I could tell about the moochers and DAVE’S.
***I used to eat pickled jalapenos out of the jar ***
I used to also until the day I nipped a small round cherry looking pepper. That nip set me on fire and I stayed away from peppers for years.
One day, home on leave, I found some cool banana peppers in a jar and ate one. It wasn’t a banana pepper but some HOT ones my aunt had sent from El Paso and mom had placed them in the empty banana pepper jar.
It was years before I would even taste a pepper again, then I finally worked up to a drop of DAVE’S.
Men...do NOT use the rest room after handling peppers OR seeds without gloves unless you have a few hours 'to burn'. Trust me.
Burns at both ends.
The same applies to men who urinate after cutting hot peppers.
Not recommended.
Alas, a few years ago my craving for hot peppers became an agent for decreasing my life span. My throat closes up and I can neither breathe nor tell anyone that I can’t breathe. It took a few such incidents to finally get it through my head that I can’t handle the stuff anymore.Oh well.
“t wasn’t my eyes that I touched.”
I was in Vietnam a few years back. The coworkers and I were drinking bear and eating snacks served at the bar. There was a saucer with small thin peppers on it. I picked one up and started nibbling on it. It was hotter than, well you know.
Later after a few more beers I accidentally brushed a finger near my eye.
!&””@’f:}#<%£+!>}!!!!!
I wash washing that eye with whatever I could find but nothing would ease the pain.
Holy crap batman, that was painful.
Did you at least kill the bear first?
Yep, spelling nazi strikes!!
Beer, old #33. Ho chi min city ( Saigon)
Ahhh yes, where they put Formaldehyde in the beer.
Avoiding hot peppers is a lot cheaper than buying an EPI-pen !
If you want some pain, try to find “Mad Dog”. Smells something like BBQ sauce, made the mistake of slathering it on a burger.
Wish I knew how to keep them producing fruit.
I always go out of my way to find the peppers that have what they call “corking” which is the stress lines on the pepper. It does make for a hotter pepper which is what I prefer. Thanks for posting that which explains it clearly.
we’ve all done it so there is no shame in talking about it.
same here.
Who’s got seeds to share? We need a seed sharing thread for hot peppers on Free Republic.
Well, my winter is warmer than most places, but I will see. Does get down in the high 60’s at night, maybe they have decided that means winter?
I worked construction in Denver and the Mexicans at those hot cherry peppers and were never sick...
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