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Article #141: Benefits of eating chillis

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Capsaicin (the stuff in peppers that the best websites for buying chillis and
makes them hot), is a flavourless, chilli sauces.
odourless chemical concentrated in the Because capsaicin contains Vitamins A and
veins and seeds of chillis and peppers. C, and beta-carotene. It's low in fat,
Capsaicin has been associated with a calories and cholesterol. If you're
number of cures that include lowering diabetic and thought your diet was
blood pressure, reducing cholesterol and supposed to be boring, try spicing up
warding off strokes and heart attacks, your cuisine with capsaicin-based
speeding up metabolism, treating colds products, like hot sauce or jalapeno
and fevers, preventing cancer and pain peppers. And if that's not enough,
control. capsaicin also appears to increase your
Chilli also protects against the side metabolic rate so you can burn more
effects of aspirin and chilli eaters calories. This is an important finding
develop fewer peptic ulcers than those for dieters. If you sprinkle cayenne
who eat plain foods. Also, rates of pepper flakes on your low-fat pizza or
stomach cancer are unusually low in soup, toss some sliced jalapeno peppers
countries where chilli peppers are part into your salad, or chop some Habanero
of a regular diet, as capsaicin appears peppers into your turkey chilli, you may
to neutralize some carcinogens. be able to lose weight faster! You'll
Research has proven that adding chilli also benefit from the other perks: lower
peppers to your foods can help your body triglycerides and great digestion.
burn calories faster (up to 45 calories Improve the odds that your family will
more per meal than if you eat bland reap the health benefits of capsaicin.
dishes) and speed up your metabolism. Keep a bottle of hot sauce on your
Chilli peppers are an incredible kitchen table or counter. Low fat
replacement for the fat and salt in your tortilla chips and hot sauce make a
diet as the flavours of the foods are satisfying appetizer or after-school
enhanced sufficiently with the snack.
ingredients themselves. When taken internally, capsaicin
Fresh chillis also offer the highest stimulates circulation sequentially, from
source of vitamin C available from any the internal organs to skin surface and
vegetable. Surprisingly, fresh, uncooked subsequently throughout the entire body.
green chillis provide at least twice and When applied externally and once it
up to eight times the amount that is penetrates the skin, capsaicin increases
available from citrus fruits. Chillis are circulation to the site where it has been
also a good source of vitamin A. As applied.
chillis turn from green to red, they lose Capsaicin has been proven to be highly
much of their vitamin C but gain vitamin successful in relieving symptoms of
A through increased amounts of carotene. arthritis, sports injuries, other kinds
When fresh chillis are dried they lose of chronic joint and muscle pain, and
most of their vitamin C content, but certain kinds of itching.
their vitamin A content increases 100 Capsaicin has also been medicinally
times. In addition to adding great proven to aid in the human body's process
flavour to food that thrills the palate, of digestion and protect against stomach
chillis offer the world some amazing ulcers and the ravages of alcohol. No
health benefits. wonder tequila and hot food make me feel
As if the perfect balance of heat and so good!
award winning flavour isn't enough, here Contrary to popular belief that ulcer
are a few other reasons to eat Hot Sauce sufferers should avoid spicy foods, a
with every meal. report published in "Digestive Diseases
A study published in the British Journal and Sciences" concluded that capsaicin
of Nutrition has discovered that increased blood flow in the stomach's
capsaicin, when added to breakfast foods mucous lining, which may help in healing
or appetizers at lunch, causes people to of the stomach tissue. Spicy cooking can
eat less during meals and for hours have some unexpected health benefits. No
afterwards. Thirteen women, who ate longer is "hot spicy food" blamed for
breakfast foods spiced with red pepper, ulcers and other gastric ills. In fact,
ate less than normal at breakfast and the opposite seems to be true.
during the day, while ten men, who ate Many of these health benefits are being
red pepper laced appetizers, consumed investigated by the medical and
fewer calories at lunch and during a pharmaceutical communities. Meanwhile,
mid-day snack hours later. Aside from the people of countries where spicy
acting as an appetite suppressant, red cooking is the norm have understood the
pepper also seems to increase the number preventive and curative benefits of these
of calories burned, particularly after substances for hundreds of years.
high-fat meals. We found that was one of






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