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Does eating too much chili peppers and putting tabasco sauce on everything i eat EVERY SINGLE DAY cause harm?

specifically, does this cause harm to the body?

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    The main ingredient in hot peppers is capsicum...... this link will fill you in. Read on!

    http://www.iamm.com/capsicum.htm

    Most bacteria have not got half a chance in hell hanging around your bod if you are eating hot peppers! It is very healthy.

  • 1 decade ago

    You are zapping your taste buds, so you have to keep increasing the amount of hot flavorings to get the same effect. But if you really eat too much, especially with the tabasco, you can eventually give yourself chemical burns on the esophagus and damage the "valve" that keeps food in your stomach. This will lead to "acid reflux" -- actually, gastric juice leaking back into your esophagus. Do you have trouble getting to sleep at night because your stomach gives you pains when you lie on one side or the other (usually the right side)? If so, you are indeed overdoing things and need to go on a bland diet long enough for healing to take place (several weeks). And then ease off on the peppers and tabasco so the problem won't come back. I notice one of the other answers recommends some spices what will give your taste buds a treat without burning them to cinders. Good idea.

    Source(s): Used to be a medical technologist
  • 1 decade ago

    well, the only harm i no that it will cause is to your taste buds. It is not good to add that much spice. With all this hot sauce and chili, your tastebuds get dull. I would try using different spices, oragano, FRESH basil (it has a stronger taste than dried) and try lots of fruits. I think that it will help!

  • 1 decade ago

    It can cause an acid build-up in the stomach, in some cases, though in theory it's quite healthy. I'd cut back on the tabasco sauce though.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    for the comparable reason that those those with eu ancestry placed gravies and sauces on each little thing. interior the previous whilst there replace into no thank you to maintain meats without smoking or drying it, there necessary to be a thank you to mask the rancid flavor. i like fairly spiced nutrition, in spite of the shown fact that it style of feels a shame to place it on each little thing. I artwork in a eating place and all the mexican workers placed warm sauce on each little thing, as replace into stated it before posts. some ingredients have organic diffused flavors that only won't be able to be somewhat favored once you mask it with warmth. it can be a step forward for every physique if all of our cultures favored the ingredients of others, yet that demands stepping out of your convenience zone, which many human beings have a concern with. to each his very own.

  • 1 decade ago

    No harm I`ve been doing it for 30 years, eating hot and spicy food unless you have a stomach ulcer from lifes problems it won`t hurt you

  • cookie
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    the main reason people like spicy foods is because the body realeases endorphines. i don't think there's any real harm to the body per se. however it's kinda like over salting things, it's a little boring if everything you eat tastes the same don't you think?

  • 1 decade ago

    If you don't have previous acid or sensitive stomach problems, it won't do any harm. Look at those from other countries who do it all the time. In fact, it's said to kill parasites and infections. Enjoy!

  • 1 decade ago

    I've actually heard that daily intake of chili peppers is good for you....cancer fighters...good for the heart, etc. (read following link). I say eat up!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Everyone has a different organism, maybe what is good to one person , is harmful to another, so, just watch carefully on yourself, if you don't feel any symptom, well I guess that condiments don't harm you.

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