As a lover of spicy food when I do the cooking it often involves some measure of chilli, and when I order a pizza, I prefer to get double jalapeno peppers on it.

I have been told that young people can take spicy foods better than older people, one person stated that spicy food can damage the internal organs of old people or at the very least disturb the digestive process.

My response to this was that India has old people, yet they manage just fine.

Can chilli peppers do this and do young people have some form of protection or resilience to it?

Although this question is about the effect of chilli on a healthy digestive system, is there medical conditions in which the above could be true?

To look a bit thinner, we suck our stomachs in. The thing I don't get is where everything goes- does it move upwards or does everything get compressed?

I notice that at random times my stomach rumbles unexpectedly... what is actually going on down there and why is it happening?

At school we have been learning about metals reacting with acid.  I had a look at the periodic table and I saw that pottasium (K)  was an alkali metal.  I also knew that bananas are an excellent source of pottasium.  So why, when I eat a banana, does the hydrochloric acid in my stomach not react and make me explode?

Felix, 11, Norwich