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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Red Hot Chili Peppers...(was: Colonic irrigations)
- Keywords: alt medicine
- Message-ID: <23333@alice.att.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 04:43:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.23333
- References: <1992Jul20.131133.24184@eng.umd.edu> <Brp1A5.DEy@hpbs654.boi.hp.com> <15812@pitt.UUCP> <2466@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
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- In article <2466@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> cecilw@access.isc-br.com (Cecil Williams) writes:
-
- > While we're talking about worms here, I would like to throw out this
- > highly speculative theory of mine for comment... Ever since my first
- > trip around Asia and my first taste of hot (HOT!!!) curried chicken,
- > I've had the idea that people in third world countries tend to eat
- > extremely spicy hot food because the hot spices would drive parasites
- > from the body (or kill them, or maybe just make them unhappy, and we all
- > know how difficult it is to procreate when you're unhappy...)
-
- Well, maybe.
-
- Here's another possible explanation: is it impossible to grow hot
- peppers in cool climates.
-
- At least that's what I infer from an article I read in a gardening
- magazine a few years ago about growing hot peppers. It said that the
- hotness of all kinds of peppers depends critically on the temperature
- while they are ripening; if it is not at least 95 degrees, the peppers
- will not be hot.
-
- It would stand to reason that people eat hot peppers only in places
- where they are available. :-)
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-