AND THE WINNER OF THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS VERSUS PROSTATE CANCER IS...

If you don’t mind having your a-hole on fire whenever you have to use the can, then you might be able to shrink your prosate cancer by eating an enormous amount of the hottest red hot chilli peppers you can find. A study published in the journal Cancer Research last week reported that the active ingredient in hot peppers -- capsaicin -- somehow caused prostate cancer cells to self-destruct in mice. The team of doctors injected mice with a dose of capsaicin equal to feeding a man eight of the hottest peppers available on the market three times a week. And the results were startling, with 80 percent of the active cancer cells dying off, and tumours shrinking to one fifth of the size of tumours in the control group. Dr. Soren Lehmann, who led the research, said that capsicin had a similar effect on human prostate cancer cells in lab dishes. (Canada.com)