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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
There's an ?E? there, not an ?O?
A few days ago Dan Lyke linked to a few posts of mine.
And then today,
I found Lobster's comment linking to a post of mine.
In both cases,
they gave my full name as ?Sean Connor.?
I know that ?Connor? is a popular spelling
for example: Chuck Connors or Connor Huff)
only my last name isn't ?Connor? but ?ConnEr?,
you know, like Sean Connery.
To help mitigate this misspelling in the future,
I made my name a bit more prominent on the blog.
Or at least I hope it's a bit more promiment.
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Notes on blocking requests based on the HTTP protocol used
I'm still clearing out some links from last month,
just so you know.
?Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1?
(via Lobsters)
describes an experiment with disabling (or redirecting) requests made via HTTP/1.1,
as most of the traffic the author saw via HTTP/1.1 they classified as ?bad.?
I decided to check that against my own server?in fact,
I'm checking it against my blog specifically,
since it's the only dynamic site I'm serving up
(the rest are all static sites).
So,
how do requests to my blog stack up?
Requests per HTTP protocol
| protocol | count |
|---|
| HTTP/1.0 | 396 |
| HTTP/1.1 | 377647 |
| HTTP/2.0 | 180093 |
| Total | 558136 |
HTTP/1.0 is negligable,
and a breakdown of response codes show that these requests aren't even bad:
HTTP/1.0 request statuses
| response | count |
|---|
SUCCESS.OKAY | 371 |
REDIRECT.MOVEPERM | 13 |
REDIRECT.NOTMODIFIED | 8 |
CLIENT.UNAUTHORIZED | 4 |
The majority of requests are to my RSS feed.
There are a vanishingly small number of agents using HTTP/1.0,
at least from where I can see.
Around ? of my traffic is still HTTP/1.1:
HTTP/1.1 request statuses
| response | count |
|---|
SUCCESS.OKAY | 289181 |
SUCCESS.ACCEPTED | 2 |
SUCCESS.PARTIALCONTENT | 7 |
REDIRECT.MOVEPERM | 886 |
REDIRECT.NOTMODIFIED | 69299 |
CLIENT.BADREQ | 3 |
CLIENT.UNAUTHORIZED | 441 |
CLIENT.FORBIDDEN | 5 |
CLIENT.NOTFOUND | 13249 |
CLIENT.METHODNOTALLOWED | 19 |
CLIENT.GONE | 82 |
CLIENT.TOOMANYREQUESTS | 4211 |
SERVER.INTERNALERR | 261 |
SERVER.NOSERVICE | 1 |
And the results for HTTP/2.0:
HTTP/2.0 request statutes
| response | count |
|---|
SUCCESS.OKAY | 103472 |
SUCCESS.PARTIALCONTENT | 1496 |
REDIRECT.MOVEPERM | 5089 |
REDIRECT.NOTMODIFIED | 68966 |
CLIENT.BADREQ | 3 |
CLIENT.UNAUTHORIZED | 47 |
CLIENT.NOTFOUND | 902 |
CLIENT.METHODNOTALLOWED | 6 |
CLIENT.GONE | 36 |
CLIENT.TOOMANYREQUESTS | 25 |
SERVER.INTERNALERR | 51 |
About 4% of the HTTP/1.1 traffic is ?bad? in the ?client made an error? bad,
where as HTTP/2.0 only has ½% of such ?bad? traffic.
Feed readers are pretty much split 50/50 as per protocol,
and the rest?
I would have to do a deeper dive into it,
but I do note that there are significally more bad clients making too many requests (CLIENT.TOOMANYREQUESTS) with HTTP/1.1 than with HTTP/2.0.
The article concludes that blocking solely on HTTP/1.x is probably not worth it,
as there are other ways to block bad traffic.
In that light,
and with the results I have,
I don't think blocking HTTP/1.1 will work for me.
In contrast,
there's ?HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame,?
an article that explitely calls for the immediate removal of HTTP/1.1,
but unstated in that article is that the desync problem is more a problem of Enterprise based websites,
with lots of middleware boxes mucking with the request chain on a web-based application.
Based on that article,
I would think that if you are running an application-centric website,
then yes,
maybe blocking HTTP/1.x is a thing to do,
but if you are running a more document-centric website
(you know, the ?old, fun and funky web? from before 2005 or so)
then maybe blocking HTTP/2.0 is in order.
In fact,
I think that might be a decent idea?leave HTTP/1.x for those who want the old web
(or the ?smolweb?),
and HTTP/2.0 for the application web.
If you want to only browse the docweb and you get an 426 HTTP_UPGRADE,
then you know you can close the website and avoid downloading 50MB of Javascript to just read a few hundred words in text.
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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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