Pepper 'kills prostate cancer'

BBC NEWS ^ | 2006/03/15 06:00:12 GMT

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[Caipirabob]

"If it don't burn, it aint worth eatin'..." - My Grandma, sittin' on a porch in Arkansas.

[Savage Beast]

I'm a damned fool too, J (in more ways than one). I thought a habanero was something like a bell pepper. I felt like I'd eaten a hot coal. On the other hand, my prostate is healthy as a horse-chestnut. Maybe it was worth it.

[Savage Beast]

LOL! You're a better man than I am, Rob. Try a habanero sometime. Let us know if works better than a jalapeno.

[R. Scott]

Eat more TexMex!

[SAJ]

If you should ever again happen to eat a pepper that's simply too hot for you, the remedy is a cinch. Just put a pat of butter right on your tongue.

Capsaicin and oleoresin capsicum (the hot principle in habs and Scotch bonnets) are readily soluble in fat, and your tongue will clear in a matter of a few seconds.

N.B. Capsaicin and oleoresin capsicum are only slightly soluble in ethyl alcohol, and insoluble in water.

[Jaysun]

If you should ever again happen to eat a pepper that's simply too hot for you, the remedy is a cinch. Just put a pat of butter right on your tongue.

Thanks for the tip. I've also been told that bread (I ate an entire loaf that day) helps cool things off.

I won't partake of the demonic habanero ever again for as long as we both shall live, at least not of my own free will. I grew up in Texas and still eat peppers and hot sauce with many of my meals. But the habanero was different. Someone else described a similar incident this way:

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to taste besides pain. My ears are ringing, sweat is pouring off my forehead and I can no longer focus my eyes. My nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. You could put a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn't feel a thing. I've lost sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water.

I felt the same way.

[Nachoman]

Pamper your prostate, abuse your anus.

[Revolting cat!]

I do!

[groanup]

The American Cancer Society will work to bury this the same way the oil companies work to bury new fuel technologies.

[flaglady47]

"So, if peppers are so good at killing off cancer cells in the prostate, are there other cancers they can help? Or is this just alimentary?"

It's alimentary, my dear Watson....

[TheLion]

James Bond used that line or something similiar in "Diamonds Are Forever".

[Salvation]

Isn't it prostate?

ANot prostrate -- meaning laying down.

[right-wingin_It]

I recall an entirely different capsaicin study, where it was also found that it was an effective inhibitor of angiogenesis (starves a tumour by reducing its blood supply, through inhibition of blood vessel formation)...

So capsaicin has an apparent "Double Whammy" effect on cancer.

I forgot the exact article I read but here is a similar one on the its inhibition of angiogenesis: http://intl-cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/64/2/644