Chillies turn up the heat on (prostate) tumours

newscientist ^ | 15 March 2006 | Roxanne Khamsi

[Bear_Slayer]

The team also found that capsaicin suppressed the growth of human prostate cancer cells by about 80%

I'm not sure I agree with their findings.

If I eat too many chilis, my prostate feels like its on fire and that it's gonna explode!

[linda_22003]

I guess "prostrate" tumors lie down a lot??

[wolfcreek]

A hot chile a day will keep the ass doctor away.

[Night Hides Not]

A hot chile a day will keep the ass doctor away.

Not if you suffer from hemorrhoids! LOL!

[MAWG]

I ate and still eat peppers all my life too. It didn't help.

[hellinahandcart]

Chile is a country

You mean, also a country. :D

[Red Badger]

Yeah, that, too....er also..........whatever.........

[hellinahandcart]

Well, come on, the peppers were around before the country was...

[Galveston Grl]

This might explain why my dad had the inherent need to stage hot chili pepper contests with this navy buddies and his male children. :)

[tiki]

We eat Mexican food all the time. My freezer is full of green sauce, red sauce, whole chiles and chopped chiles.

[beyond the sea]

My freezer is full of green sauce, red sauce, whole chiles and chopped chiles.

You'll live longer than all the Dems. who are afraid of hot peppers!

[tiki]

We grow for the company that cans that Hatch brand and quite a few others.

[hellinahandcart]

I lived in New York for a long time, and had a teeny, useless little freezer, so my parents in New Mexico used to dry roasted green chiles and ship them to me every year.

By the time those babies were dried, they could pack a bushel into a shoebox.:D