Spicy Kids

Hot chips overdose:

Super spicy chips and snack foods have come under attack as being unhealthy, with certain school districts even going so far as to ban some brands from their schools. But now doctors in the US say there's another reason spicy junk food should be avoided: It can result in a trip to the emergency room. Emergency room doctors said they were seeing kids and some adults coming into the ER with gastritis, an inflamed stomach lining, or other stomach ailments after eating bags of spicy snack foods.

"In the past, I had not seen any problems with snack food until spicy flavouring became more popular," said [Dr] Glatter. Glatter said it wasn't just the high fat or high salt content that the kids or adolescents crave but the actual burn of the spicy flavouring. "It's almost like a food addiction. They seek out the burn," said Glatter. "It's a little thrill-seeking. 'It's like how much can I tolerate?' and I've seen a number of children who eat four or five bags and come in screaming in pain."

That's called an "object lesson." Ate five bags of hot chips and it hurts? Good. Now what have we learned, you stupid little bastard?