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Stefan,
>you dig out funny things. It happened quite suddenly that you began to
>quote heaps of references in your posts. There must be a new source
>which you now have access to. Which is it? Did you discover a new li-
>brary? :-)
Kind of: the biomedical library and the library of archaeology and anthropology
of U. Penn are excellent. You can search abstracts at
http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/PubMed/
>My radical opinion on hot spices:
>Chili, garlic, onions, mustard etc. are all for severely s i c k
>people. When I was on the top of my heavy metal intoxification I
>craved garlic. The burning was s o good, the taste excellent and
>I could eat huge amounts. I also could eat big parts of chili whereas no
>other instincto whom I know was able to eat only a tiny piece.
You are talking about eating spices the instincto way. I am sure that the most
"toxic" Mexican couldn't do that. I myself used to like spicy foods, but
certainly couldn't eat monomeals of hot chili.
>It's true that hot spices cause salivation (even of tears ;-)) and
>speed up the digestion. So they truly help in detoxing. But in my very
>humble (but radical) opinion they are only needed in severe cases.
I have no definite opinion about spices. They can indeed help digestion, among
other properties. What was interesting in this text was that:
-taste preferences have a strong cultural component in humans -which could
interfere with instinctive eating.
-foods that would give a very strong stop are not necessarily harmful
And of course, the mysterious process of how children come to like spicy foods
is particularly interesting.
Best wishes,
Jean-Louis
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