Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's

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."

Comments

Tomacco.

[Anonymous Coward]

Tomacco.

Paging Mr. Fox

[l0ungeb0y]

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!!!!

Re: Paging Mr. Fox

[Anonymous Coward]

The person reading it, primarily

Re:MJF

[M0j0_j0j0]

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

Been listening to Sgt. Pepper's for years

[smittyoneeach]

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

Remember "Sleeper"?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Spicy food and cigars :-)

[Murdoch5]

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

Re:Fresh vegetables and fruits

[dbIII]

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.

Re:Tobacco...right

[bitt3n]

yes I do!