Is good "hot" food an answer to certain cancers?

Recent studies in the UK seem to show that there are properties in chillies that may actually help to prevent some cancer cells from growing and reproducing.

see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6244715.stm

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Scientists have discovered the key to the ability of spicy foods to kill cancer cells.

They found capsaicin, an ingredient of jalapeno peppers, triggers cancer cell death by attacking mitochondria - the cells' energy-generating boiler rooms.

The research raises the possibility that other cancer drugs could be developed to target mitochondria.

The Nottingham University study features in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

The study showed that the family of molecules to which capsaicin belongs, the vanilloids, bind to proteins in the cancer cell mitochondria to trigger apoptosis, or cell death, without harming surrounding healthy cells.

Now all I have to do is to be able to figure out how, with some of your stomach and most of your oesophagus removed how it is possible to actually ingest the drug. When you eat hot food the after effects on various parts of the anatomy would clearly make this difficult.

Anyone out there with any suggestions?

JUST IN!

Received two new interpretations of NED or "No Evidence of Disease" in the mail:

1. NED - "Not Expecting Death"
2. NED - "New Experiences Desired"

These are COOL and so much more entertaining than the original.

I wonder if we could come up with alternates that are even more useful?

e.g.

Never Envisaged Dying
New Energy Discovered
Novel Expectations Delivered

Christmas News

I am delighted to report to all my readers that the latest CT scan results have arrived. Within them there is a line that is possibly the best present on which one can end a year.

The following was stated:

"No evidence of metastatic disease within the neck, chest or upper abdomen."

I know that this leaves a lot of the body unexplored.

Given the history of migratory cancer cells, I know this does not mean that the little buggers are not lurking somewhere else.

Nor does it mean that they actually do not exist within the areas that have been looked at, but are so small that they cannot be detected by the process as yet.

Regardless of the shortcomings of the information I choose to look at the data with some relief and take heart. So you might as well adopt the glass is half full approach with me and BE HAPPY!

I don't know about all of you, but I am going to try and enjoy my Christmas and New Year break.

You all take care and BE CAREFUL out there.

The very last thing I want to do in the near future is to have to attend someone else's funeral!