Re:[CH]The Bread and Endorphins
Lorraine Heidecker (lheid@saclink.csus.edu)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:06:49 -0700 (PDT)
Hey Doug you may be on to somehting here. Maybe would should try to get
some legislation passed that all government, united nations, and
diplomatic meetings should be proceeded by a meal liberally blessed by El
Grande!
Peace, love and peppers
Lorraine
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Senor Chile Monger wrote:
> I definitely feel the effect of capsaicin-induced endorphin release, but,
> for the most part, it isn't a mind-reeling, knee-buckling, "mercy, I'm
> meetin' my Maker" sort of feeling. It's more of a general feeling of
> relaxed well being. An example: I sat on a committee that was working on a
> large networking project and one of the engineers and I were at odds most of
> the time. There were times when I would come out of those Friday afternoon
> meetings nearly apoplectic. One Friday Santa Esperanza de la Habanero
> brought me a small bag of Habaneros from her garden. I ate two of them with
> my lunch that day. At the meeting that afternoon I was relaxed, focused,
> and, for the most part, unflappable. I started making Habaneros with lunch
> a Friday tradition!
>
> In Chiles,
>
> Doug
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