On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 10:22:05 AM UTC-4, wrote:
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> Naomi Kritzer January 8, 2015 SciTech
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> There's an article making the rounds about how men with higher testosterone levels prefer spicier foods.
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> Big reveal: Higher testosterone correlated with a higher use of Tabasco, but not salt.
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> Once they showed up, they were presented with 150g of mashed potatoes, 50 satchets of Tabasco sauce (the paper refers to these as "doses"), and 80 satchets of salt. They were also given an information sheets warning them of the risks of adding Tabasco, i.e., that one dose would be spicy while six doses might cause "temporary extinction of the sense of taste" and "vomiting."

So basically they just showed that guys with more testosterone will see the "dangers" of Tabasco as a challenge and use as much as they can stand just to prove how "tough" they are. Yes, testosterone causes men to do stupid stuff, now there's a news flash.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, VA