<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f3f6926b-a9b2-4548-bb28-c59631111490/62A69E0F-7617-427E-889F-9480C9268BEE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html" href="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.elements4health.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elements4health.com/img/C7C5559F-B96B-415D-A3C7-DDC719BC97CE" alt="pepperoni pizza" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html">For up to a million women in the U.S., enjoying a piece of pepperoni pizza has painful consequences. They have a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis that causes severe pelvic pain. Spicy food such as citrus, caffeine, tea (even green tea), sodas, tomatoes and alcohol can cause their symptoms (pain and an urgent need to frequently urinate) to flare up and intensify the pain. It was thought that the spike in their symptoms was triggered when digesting the foods produced chemicals in the urine that irritated the bladder.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html"> However, researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine believe the colon, irritated by the spicy food, is to blame.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elements4health.com/how-spicy-foods-aggravate-interstitial-cystitis.html"><DIV> People with interstitial cystitis have bladder nerves that are constantly transmitting pain signals to the spinal cord. And when the colon is irritated by pepperoni pizza or another type of food, colon nerves also send a pain signal to the same area on the spinal chord intensifying the pain.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/62A69E0F-7617-427E-889F-9480C9268BEE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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