This is just "hot" off the press...
RED-hot chillies contain an ingredient that drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, research shows.
Capsaicin, which causes the heat in chillies, prompts human prostate cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis, studies published in the American journal, Cancer Research, revealed.
Scientists from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, together with researchers from UCLA, found capsaicin has a "profound inhibiting effect on the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo".
It induced about 80 per cent of prostate cancer cells growing in mice to "follow the molecular pathways" leading to apoptosis. Tumours treated with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of those in non-treated mice.
I think it is time I walked the line and starting eating lots of Chillies!
Have a G'day!
