Hot Peppers Are Good For Your Wienie!

Prostate, actually.

Sigh, every piece of good news has to have a downside.

This actually goes goes to further prove my theory that everything on Earth causes one type of cancer, but prevents another type.

Wasn’t there an issue of the NEJM that had papers showing evidence that coffee could, in one study, reduce heart disease risk and, in another study, increase heart disease risk?

“Eat Well. Stay Fit. Die Anyways!”

There was an update on this in the news in the last few days.

Everything, but in moderation.

i believe the exact quote is

“everything in moderation! including excess!”

Actually Oscar Wilde said “Everything in moderation, including moderation”, which I think makes more sense.

So you got put capsicum in your booty? Ouch. Talk about your burnin’ ring of fire.

*There’s a hole in my stomach, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in my stomach dear Liza, a hole…"

I was relatively certain it was a quote, but google wasn’t forthcoming so I just went with what I could recall. So, cool. :cool:

WOOT!!!

I’m headin’ to the local Mexican greasy spoon tonight!!

Jalepeno up my bum? No thanks, I’ll wait for the Mex-Lax.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, anyone?

“Tabasco helps me keep it up.”

Unless I misread, I didn’t see any suggestion that eating them has been linked with preventing prostate cancer. If they discovered that the chemical works to kill tumor cells when applied directly, that shouldn’t come as much of a shock since it’s a tissue irritant. I don’t see why it would even remotely follow that you should eat them.

The BBC article is incomplete in this regard. The trial mice were, in fact, fed the dose of capsaicin orally:
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Interesting, then . . .