In a message dated 8/99 1:31:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, scottws@stratos.net writes: << Capsaicin also interferes with glucose uptake, and at least one study suggests that it may cause cancer of the duodenum. (Nutrition Reviews 44(1)20-23, January, 1986) An earlier report (Anticancer Research 4 >> OMG, I'm almost sorry I asked. Gareth