For spicy foods, short-time pain, long-term gain.

[Robert59]

Spicy food challenges are all the rage these days, but can munching red hot peppers and sizzling hot sauces harm you?

One nutrition expert from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Ohio suggests that while they may burn your tongue at the dinner table and trigger gastrointestinal distress traveling through your body, they actually could help improve your lifelong health.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/202...short-time-pain-long-term-gain/9851657285311/

 

[Pinky]

I find that I can no longer tolerate very spicy foods I get acid reflux.

 

[terry123]

I do my best to tolerate them. Love them.

 

[Wontactmyage]

I might agree somewhat for younger palates but for older people their system might not tolerate it and can cause stomach, esophageal and mouth issues long term. My husband was having much trouble with tomato, coffee products. He was taking a bicarbonate soda after every time he ate or drank the above items which was often. After going to a specialist and him stating that these were eroding his stomach lining and esophagus. He had two options 1) put him on a pill or 2) stop eating so much of them and stop eating them late in the day (we say; no red sauces after 4:00 pm). Stopped coffee all together and changed to tea and that has the same rule as red sauces. All of his symptoms have gone away without “the pill”. No need for bicarbonate soda much any more. Many ailments can be directed back to what and when we eat them. I always say, look at how, when and what you are eating before heading to a Dr and his pill bottles.

 

[Llynn]

as Garrison Keillor once said: "my people don't eat food that hurts". I have enough Scandinavian blood to include myself in that sentiment.

 

[JaniceM]

I hate spicy foods, and always have.
The only spices I have are garlic powder, minced onion, and cinnamon. I use them so rarely that I often find they're years past the expiration date.

 

[Just Jeff]

One nutrition expert from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Ohio suggests that while they may burn your tongue at the dinner table and trigger gastrointestinal distress traveling through your body, they actually could help improve your lifelong health.

Turn down the heat and they can still substantially keep someone healthy, or improve a lot of conditions. Doesn't have to be hot at all actually, although 'hot' stuff is known to help a lot of specific things or maintain wonderful health.

An older couple, in their eighties, had bleeding ulcers. They did not want hot peppers, I think.

They made and drank fresh cabbage juice for a week. That was all the time needed to heal the ulcers. If they had been given drugs, they likely would have died or gotten worse, according to the experience of those who took drugs instead of cabbage juice or other natural foods.

I might agree somewhat for younger palates but for older people their system might not tolerate it and can cause stomach, esophageal and mouth issues long term. My husband was having much trouble with tomato, coffee products. He was taking a bicarbonate soda after every time he ate or drank the above items which was often. After going to a specialist and him stating that these were eroding his stomach lining and esophagus. He had two options 1) put him on a pill or 2) stop eating so much of them and stop eating them late in the day (we say; no red sauces after 4:00 pm)