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Cayenne Pepper Could Help Stomach Ulcers
By Robert Palmer
If you suffer from a peptic or duodenal ulcer, the last thing you might consider taking is hot Cayenne Pepper. This goes against everything you've ever heard about what aggravates an ulcer, the facts are that most "spicy" foods do just the opposite. Capsicum (Cayenne Pepper) can reduce pain which serves as a local anesthetic to ulcerated tissue in the stomach and can even help to control bleeding in the stomach.
Some individuals may be bothered by eating "Red Pepper" or spicy foods, these foods do not cause the formation of gastric ulcers in normal people. An interesting note is that people suffering from ulcers usually avoid Cayenne Pepper, in fact those people may actually benefit from its therapeutic action.
Taking Capsicum may significantly reduce the risk of ever developing a peptic ulcer. A Chinese study published in 1995 stated, "Our data supports the hypothesis that the chile used has a protective effect against peptic ulcer disease."1
Another 1995 study found that Capsicum can even protect the stomach lining from aspirin induced ulcers.2 Aspirin can cause stomach ulceration in certain individuals or if taken with too little water or juice. Researchers have concluded after experimenting with human volunteers that the capsaicin content of capsicum has a definite - protective effect on the mucous membranes of the stomach.3 eighteen healthy volunteers with normal gastrointestinal mucosa took chile and water followed by 600 mg of aspirin and water. The study was conducted over a period of four weeks. Endoscopy results showed that taking 20 grams of
Extreme Monopoly Board Game Knockoff, Boca Raton edition
About two weeks ago I was at a local Walgreens in Boca Raton when I came across something unusual.
I meant to blog about it then,
but alas,
I just now got a round tuit.
Anyway,
what I found:
I amazed this even exists!
I wonder who's idea this even was?
The Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce?
Anyway,
it's clearly a knockoff of Monopoly,
as you won't find it for sale at Hasbro.
It's actually made by Late for the Sky,
which seems to make games based off Monopoly,
or should I say,
The Landlord's Game which is completely in the public domain
(wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more,
unlike Monopoly.
But Boca Raton Opoly sure looks like Monopoly,
walks like Monopoly,
and probably quacks like Monopoly,
so I wonder how they get away with this?
Perhaps by flying under the radar of Habro?
Update later this day
Apparently,
Hasbro doesn't care:
Leaders at Late for the Sky say Monopoly gameplay is not copyrighted,
meaning any version of the game can be created as long as the board, pieces
and names within the game are different from the original version.
Via my friend Jeff Cuscutis on
LinkedPinMyFaceTikInstaMeTrestWeGramBookInTokSpace,
Business
making Monopoly games based on Carolina towns
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Tesla, Edison, and who actually fought the War of Currents?
I used to think Thomas Edison was a self-aggrandizing business man who took the credit for the inventions his employees made,
and Nikola Tesla was the real deal?a genius inventor who was actually responsible for most of our technology based on electricity.
But now?
Having watched the 4˝ hour long video ?Most Everything You Know About Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is Probably Wrong?
(and yes, it's four and a half hours long!)
I'm not so sure my assessment is correct.
The long video goes deep into the history of Tesla,
Edison,
and the War of the Currents where it wasn't Tesla vs. Edison,
but Westinghouse (the company) vs. Edison (the copmany).
Tesla might have been a genius,
but not all this theories about physics and electronics were correct and later in life he went a bit ? crazy ? to say the least
(he fell in love with a pidgeon and said he created incredible inventions without having actually ? you know ? built the incredible inventions).
And Edison might have been a self-aggrandizing business man,
but he credited his team and oftem times,
his team didn't invent the technology,
but improved upon existing designs
(to the point where he learned 6,000 ways not to build a lightbulb).
And the whole thing about Edison electrocuting an elephant
(or at least animals)
to show how dangerous alternating current was?
Eh ? not exactly.
And he did not invent the electric chair.
Yes,
it's a long video,
but if you are interested at all in Tesla and/or Edison,
it's worth the time to watch.
It got me to rethink how I think about Tesla and Edison.
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Remembrance of enlightened palms past
The image at the bottom of this page reminds me of the time I used to photograph enlightened palms,
but it never occurred to me that one could enlight trees with fireflies (we don't get fireflies down here in Lower Sheol,
which may be the reason why).
The pictures I took with the Christmas lights used an exposure of a few seconds; I wonder how long an exposure was used for the firefly photo.
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How to measure ? cup of oil, part III
I just received a nice email from Muffintree14 thanking me for helping them make a recipe where they needed to meaure out ? of a cup!
They were trying to measure out 200ml of something
(they didn't specify what)
and it turns out that 200ml is about ? of a cup.
I suspect they could have just used a regular cup,
as that's 237ml.
As long as you aren't baking bread
(or other pastry-like food item)
then it probably doesn't matter that much.
Roughly speaking,
200ml is close enough to 1 cup that you might as well use 1 cup.
But then I found an image
(via Bob Anstett on TikLinkedMyFacePinInstaMeGramSpaceWeInTokTrestBook)
describing the various relationships among Imperial units,
and from there,
I found a much better way to meaure ? cups?measure out 1 cup,
then remove 8 teaspoons;
much better than the 2 ? cup measures (or 1 ? if available),
a 1˝ tablespoon and a ˝ teaspoon.
And maybe this will help someone else twenty years down the line.
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Matchbox cars seem to have gotten bigger in recent years
Bunny and I went to a local Toyota dealership to fix an issue with her car
(it turns out it was a very unusual, but very minor, issue)
and while there,
we saw this on the display floor:
Turns out,
this is not a large Matchbox car,
but a small electric car straight from a factory in Japan
(the informational flying under the windsheid is all in Japanese).
A five year old would barely fit in this thing,
much less an adult.
There doesn't appear to be any storage space of any significant size,
and sans doors,
I'm not sure this is even road legal.
And the the staff there don't even know if it's for sale.
Weird.
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I love it when abstractions are too abstract to be useful
I recently found an annoying aspect of
Xlib?it's hard to find documentation about what keys affect the state field of the keyboard event.
It's obvious that the shift keys on the keyboard will set ShiftMask,
the control key will set ControlMask,
and the CapsLock key will set LockMask
(when I would expect it to set ShiftMask since it's just locking the shift keys to ?on?),
but there's little to say what keys set the Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask, Mod3Mask, Mod4Mask and Mod5Mask.
This is problematic,
because I do need to check for keyboard events and this threw me for a loop?why are none of the keys working?
Well,
that's because my virtual Linux server on the Mac sets the NumLock key,
which causes the X server to then set the Mod2Mask for all keyboard events and I wasn't expecting that.
Sigh.
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chile before the aspirin definitely demonstrated a protective action on the stomach lining.4 Capsicum has the ability to rebuild stomach tissue.
Capsicum has the ability to bring blood to regions of tissue at a faster rate boosts the assimilation of foods that are consumed with it.5 Several clinical studies support this phenomenon. It has been thought that Capsicum stimulate the release of substances which increase secretions in the stomach and intestines plus can increase an abundance of blood to the stomach and intestines.6 In fact, Capsicum can increases the flow of digestive secretions from the salivary, gastric and intestinal glands.
References:
1 J. Y. Kang, et al. "The effect of chile ingestion of gastrointestinal mucosal proliferation and azoxymethane-induced cancer in the rat." Journal of Gastroenterology-Hepatol. Mar-Apr. 1992: 7 (2): 194-98.
2 K. G. Yeoh, et al. "Chile protects against aspirin-induced gastroduodenal mucosal injury in humans." Dig-Dis-Sci. Mar. 1995: 40 (3): 580-83.
3 Ibid. Article Source: http://www.articlemap.com Darrell Miller, Manager VitaNet Health Foods, 235 Market ave. SW, Hartville OH 44632, Dietary Supplements ... VitaNet Has been in business since 1995, offering supplements and vitamin supplement information to customers for the past 10 Years to help enrich your quality of life.
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