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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond here with the latest news on health and wellbeing.
Today you might have been hearing in the media about a new variant of COVID 19 called XEC.
I'll be asking what we do and don't know about it.
And is the climate crisis making you feel anxious?
What to do about climate anxiety later on.
But let me introduce my guest today, BBC health correspondent Smita Mundasad.
What do you have for us today?
I have some research about chilies, which happen to be my favourite thing.
Chili peppers and maybe why we should eat them a bit more.