-- By Jennifer HarperÔÇ¿ - THE WASHINGTON TIMESÔÇ¿ - March 16, 2006
Gentlemen, eat your chili peppers. Habanero, jalapeno, Scotch bonnet --
those hot but tasty varieties of the capsicum frutescens have multiple
health benefits -- including the ability to drive prostate cancer cells to
kill themselves, researchers announced yesterday.
According to a team from the University of California at Los Angeles and
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hot stuff in peppers -- capsaicin -- caused