>.how come this has not come to light >before, seeing as the proportion of stomach and gastric >intestinal >cancer is no higher in Mexico, Szechuan, Hunan, India, or any >other >place where chiles are consumed in high numbers? They probably got the innocent food....I read somewhere that there is a lot of gastric cancer in Korea because of all the PICKLES. So, someone noted the hot Kim-Chee and blamed the chiles instead. Something like that (my latest theory).