Could you least keep your hit-and-run health woo internally consistent?

[full_metal_ox]

(Not a library-specific problem, but that happened to be the venue

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[febobe]

I assume it's that capsaicin comes from nightshade veg? (I seem to recall it being in hot peppers, peppers of course being nightshades....)

[full_metal_ox]

And Febobe wins a year's supply of taters* (rare good ballast for an empty belly, as well as a fellow member of the nightshade clan.)

(I was going to award ten points to whatever Hogwarts House you identify with, but your LJ seems to be largely Tolkienverse-centric.)

*If you like and can eat them; otherwise, substitute your Middle-Earth comfort food of choice.)

[febobe]

Eeeee, thanks! Yep, I'm a Middle-earth person, and definitely a tater hobbit. :) I can eat them, though I should probably eat less of them than I do. They're a regular staple in our house...little oven roasted ones by Little Potato Company, mashed potatoes, homemade oven fries (chips!), baked...boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew! :D

I'm an LOTR fanfic writer specializing in Frodo-centric fanfic, often featuring Sam, so nothing could have made me happier. Rare good ballast for an empty belly indeed! :D Thanks so much. :)

[full_metal_ox]

(I once came into possession of some rabbit meat soon after having read the passage in question--leading me into unwise temptation; unfortunately, taters can be sore torment to a petered-out pancreas. I would've done better to prepare the rabbit only with wild greens, as in the recipe Sam actually made.)

[glhansen]

Well, I had to look that one up. Nightshade vegetables include potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. So, some of my favorites. Some people are sensitive to nightshade plants, and can experience diarrhea, gas, bloating, nausea, painful joints, headaches, and depression, according to the article on Livestrong.

So if some people are sensitive to them, then it must be the potatoes that are causing your arthritis, and not whatever it was the doctor said.

[full_metal_ox]

And certainly not capsaicin--which, as Febobe notes above, is extracted from freaking chile peppers:

The chili pepper (also chile pepper, chilli pepper, or simply chilli) from Nahuatl chīlli Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃiːli] (listen) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

--From the Wikipedia article on the subject.

(For the record, I avoid potatoes--regretfully--because I've discovered that they do my blood sugar no good, but I love tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant, and those chiles within my Scoville tolerance, and happily toss them together willy-nilly into ratacurries and minegumbos: terms for what happens when I arrive home with a sack of local summer vegetables and no set plan.)

I guess that what prodded my pressure point was the perfect storm of condescending drive-by helpfulness, demonstrable ignorance, and--again--internal inconsistency.

[glhansen]

Yeah, I see the intrusiveness and the inconsistency. But my brain triggered on the one-size-fits-all philosophy, which seems to be absolutely everywhere. Some people are sensitive to gluten, so YOU shouldn't eat wheat. Some people are sensitive to nightshade vegetables, so YOU shouldn't eat them. If you're working in the hot, dry conditions of a desert you could dehydrate before your sense of thirst catches up, therefore YOU, working in an air-conditioned library, should drink before you feel thirsty. And it goes on and on.