Spicy

Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 2:05PM EDT

I decided to go with the curry again for lunch today. I had the same thing yesterday. Today's was really spicy which was fine but I'd prefer very slightly less spicy. I don't know what it is about eating curry or spicy foods recently but after I finish eating I get a slight feeling of euphoria. I am going to use wild speculation here and say that the curry contains certain chemicals that affects certain neurotransmitters in certain people's brains. So I decided to look up some info on curry and other spices. Curry is a mixture of different spices which I never really paid attention to when I buy little bottles of curry powder. On the lable it usually says what spices are in it. I also found this little tidbit on curry. When I read things like that I always think that there is no kind of unified study of diet among the different cultures of the world. Seems like there is much to learn from what people eat. I am particularly frustrated by the lack of scientific study into traditional medicines and diet. So when I keep hearing about how we have discovered that some kind of plant or certain foods have these new found benefits but have been used by certain people for hundreds or thousands of years I am excited but disappointed at the same time because they neglected it for so long.