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To: Oberon

Yummm! I'll have some of each. Actually, I do eat a lot of very spicy foods, so think I'll add even more now. I always thought hot spicy condiments were good for you, both for digestion, respiratory and other ailments. I'm diabetic, so maybe I'm healthier than I think.


56 posted on 12/15/2006 9:30:27 AM PST by varina davis
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To: varina davis; Oberon

Careful. These foods that cause a burning sensation inthe mouth have been found to cause cancer -- IIRC correctly, of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach. They cause chemical burns, i.e. they inflict damage on cells, which promotes cancer via genetic changes in the cells. That pain is your body's very wise natural warning system telling you not to eat this. The cancer effect is minimal to nonexistent in people who eat these foods occasionally, but if people go out and make a point of eating lots of them regularly, or of taking capsules of red pepper to bypass the mouth pain, there's a real risk. Plus there's zero evidence that ingesting this orally would have any effect on the pancreas and/or insulin sensitivity -- the stuff would almost certainly digested to an inactive state long before its remnants entered the bloodstream and travelled to the pancreas.


135 posted on 12/15/2006 12:23:06 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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