Health Benefits

Researchers in China recently looked at using a treatment made up of capsaicin, curcumin and piperine on certain people with conditions commonly tied to hair loss.

Capsaicin is the naturally occurring compound found in hot peppers that makes them so hot. There are some products out there that tend to help with things like joint pain, including some topical products that contain capsaicin. Capsaicin is thought to help block pain receptors.

A first date can be nerve-wracking, but there’s good reason to keep things from getting too spicy. It turns out spicy food is one of the absolute worse things you can eat on a first date. At least, that’s according to a poll of thousands of adults tasked with identifying some of the top foods to avoid on a first date. When it comes to the top 20 foods to avoid, people in the survey chose spicy curry as number one, so the first date is probably not the night to try out something new on the hot pepper scale.

When it comes to kids and food, most parents know it’s a struggle, at least from time to time, to keep from raising a picky eater. Kids are notorious for liking a certain type of food one day, then refusing to even try it the next. It’s nothing new, even people who are parents right now probably have memories of being forced to sit at the kitchen table until they finished their food. It’s tough to get kids to try new things, but it’s possible to make mealtime a bit more diverse, and even kickstart a lifelong love of spicy...