Could eating peppers prevent Parkinson's?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/w-cep050713.php

Public release date: 9-May-2013
Contact: Dawn Peters
Wiley

Dietary nicotine may hold protective key

New research reveals that Solanaceae—a flowering plant family with some species producing foods that are edible sources of nicotine—may provide a protective effect against Parkinson's disease. The study appearing today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggests that eating foods that contain even a small amount of nicotine, such as peppers and tomatoes, may reduce risk of developing Parkinson's.

-----