Can I die from eating too many hot chili peppers?


	Can I die from eating too many hot chili peppers?

dorine

8-11-2007 10:32 AM

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8-11-2007 9:37 PM

kkcapricorn

So what did we learn here? We can kill mice with hot peppers..........

8-12-2007 12:20 PM

invictus

Well, as a hot chili peppers fan, I just prefer to take the sentence about killing prostate-cancer cells.

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There is no known case of a person dying from eating too many peppers, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b6e1d182a23f3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html"><EM>Guinness Book of World Records</EM> is Anandita Dutta Tamuly, a woman from India who devoured 60 Bhut Jolokia peppers—the hottest pepper in the world—in just two minutes on national television.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b6e1d182a23f3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html">found that the chemical that makes peppers hot, capsaicin, can kill human prostate-cancer cells grown in mice. The scientists estimated that the dosage was equal to a 200-pound man eating three to eight habanero peppers three times a week.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b6e1d182a23f3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html">But is there a deadly dose of spicy peppers?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b6e1d182a23f3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html">After several hefty doses of pure capsaicin, most of the mice died of lung failure</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b6e1d182a23f3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html">Don't worry, though—you'd have to eat hundreds of thousands of jalapeños in one sitting to get the equivalent dose, and, the LeFevres of the world notwithstanding, most people beg for mercy after a dozen.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69173755-7621-4240-A6ED-1119B0DF2B75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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