Eating Hot Peppers Might Add Years
For all you fans of hot and spicy.
Eating hot peppers may just help you to live longer.
Yep, really! In a study that looked at 16,000 Americans over a 19-year period, researchers found that eating hot red chili peppers lowered the chances of dying by 13%.
The key to the hot pepper is thought to be capsaicin, the chemical that gives the pepper its hot taste.
Capsaicin is known to stimulate cellular mechanisms against obesity, improve blood flow to the heart and keeps the gut's probiotic population happy and healthy.
So, order that Szechuan. Spice-up that enchilada. It may just 'do a body good' and help you to be around a bit longer.
What's your favorite go-to hot-n-spicy food?
[Source for and nay-sayers and bio-nerds:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222470/]
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