Cancerous Prostate

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I.P. Smoke-Free

This may be your best.

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It certainly did not work for me. — Peter Headland

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New Mexico "Mexican food" is uniquely based on fresh local chili peppers. I know residents who refuse to eat Mexican food outside its borders because everything else is just bland Tex-Mex. When I lived there I ate jalapenos almost like popcorn and ate "hot" restaurant salsa literally like a bowl of tomato soup, a pint with a meal if it was good. But I once tasted concentrated habanero pepper juice at Albuquerque’s Fiery Foods Fiesta as instructed by the bottler: dip a toothpick into it, shake any visible juice off the pick, and lightly touch your tongue to the toothpick. I had trouble breathing for several minutes, and almost had my wife call for help. The Fiesta officials shut down that booth after the paramedics had to treat several locals and hospitalize one. No, thanks. Give me prostate cancer with ADT any day. It’s FAR less debilitating. And for GOD’S sake keep habanero sauce away from my peepee. I.P. Smoke-Free

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Wednesday, 15th March 2006 Science & Technology  Wed 15 Mar 2006 Chillis ’shrink tumours and kill cancer cells’ IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT THE hottest peppers in the world can kill prostate cancer cells and dramatically reduce the size of tumours, according to new research. Scientists in the United States found capsaicin – the substance that makes hot peppers burn the tongues of chilli fans – had a "profound effect" on human prostate cancer cells grown in the laboratory and on the same cells grown in mice. The mice were fed a dose of pepper extract equivalent to up to eight haba