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Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's

Posted by Unknown on from the mmm-tomacco dept.

DavidHumus writes "A recent study indicates that consuming vegetables from the Solanaceae family, which includes tomatoes and peppers (as well as tobacco), decreases the risk of contracting Parkinson's disease. Earlier studies had shown that smoking tobacco seems to provide protection against the disease and the newer one seems to confirm that the key ingredient is nicotine, which is present in some vegetables like peppers."

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  1. Tomacco. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tomacco.

  2. Paging Mr. Fox by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know it's in bad taste, but I'd pay anything to see Michael J Fox doing a Frank's RedHot Commercial splattering sauce everywhere while having a case of the shakes.

    I PUT THAT SH*T ON EVERYTHING!!!!

    1. Re:Paging Mr. Fox by dontgetshocked · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your right, it is in very bad taste. You should be ashamed of yourself and why Slashdot awards you points is beyond me. Having a Neurological disease myself, it is very offensive. You are the kind of person who laughs at others misfortunes. Sad!

    2. Re:Paging Mr. Fox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Having a Neurological disease myself

      Lacking a sense of humour is called a neurological disease now?

    3. Re: Paging Mr. Fox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      The person reading it, primarily

  3. Re:MJF by M0j0_j0j0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but ya know that time traveling shit did have some side effects.

  4. Been listening to Sgt. Pepper's for years by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  5. Remember "Sleeper"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woody Allen character in the distant future, noticing many people smoking, is told "we discovered that tobacco is good for you".

  6. Spicy food and cigars :-) by Murdoch5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like eating spicy food and smoking cigars is good for you, thanks science :-)

  7. Re:Fresh vegetables and fruits by dbIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make salsa. Stuff it in your eggs ... shove it up your wraps

    That reminds me of some experiments to halt urinary incontinence by squirting chilli oil into people's bladders, on the assumption that by deadening some nerves their bladders would release urine less easily. The test subjects apparently insisted that it worked perfectly the first time and there was no need to do it again.

  8. Re:Tobacco...right by bitt3n · · Score: 3, Funny

    yes I do!

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    how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?