[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

eating too many hot peppers has been linked to stomach cancer.

Never heard that one before.

[chuckles]

I also thought it was proven that ulcers came from bacteria. Spicy foods may irritate them but don't cause them. Some of these things sound like urban legends. Capsasin kills pain, that's proven, but I'd be careful of the cancer cure claim.

Just in the last couple of months we find studies have proven that HDL and LDL don't clog the arteries, but histamine does, that eggs are good for you, that sugar doesn't hurt you, meat is good for you, and many others that have been drilled into us for decades are proven false. This maybe another.