Someone needs to get a hold of the food or travel channel. Epic
I am sure many have seen this quote before. This should make the victims, errrrr, contestants feel at ease, since they are no where near this threshold.
Paul Bosland, professor of horticulture at New Mexico State University and director of the Chile Pepper Institute on the matter:
"Theoretically, one could eat enough really hot chiles to kill you," he says. "A research study in 1980 calculated that three pounds of extreme chilies in powder form — of something like the Bhut Jolokia — eaten all at once could kill a 150-pound person."