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Canadian man eats 135 Carolina reaper peppers in one sitting (www.upi.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Eating hot peppers is actually quite good for your stomach unless you have irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, or inflammatory bowel disease--in which case, hot peppers join a very long list of other foods that can cause or aggravate symptoms of those diseases.