2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
There are many myths in nutrition and the more non-standard a food is, the more contradictory the ideas around it. When it comes to non-standard taste qualities, spicy foods hold the lead.
Opinions about them vary almost to the extreme - some deny them, pointing out the dangerous consequences of their consumption in some health conditions, others consider them useful for the digestive system, as well as other benefits for the body.
We will leave the debate whether they are harmful or not and we will focus only on the benefits of spicy food. What does it give to our body, what needs does it satisfy?
Oddly enough, spicy food prolongs life. It was found that regular consumption of spicy food for 7 years leads to an increase in life by 14 percent. The risk of death is reduced by 10 percent if spicy food enters the menu twice a week.
Eating spicy and spicy foods boosts metabolism, through the ingredient capsaicin helps burn more fat and so imperceptibly lose some extra pounds.
The main ingredient - capsaicin has another unexpected advantage for some people who have a low pain threshold. It targets the substance in the brain that is responsible for the sensation of pain and misleads it into ignoring the painful sensation.
Hot spices in food are rich in antioxidants. They also enter the body and help the body fight viral infections. Spicy food helps of the immune system to deal with the infection faster if the flu virus or colds have attacked us successfully.
Spicy food reduces the desire for sweets, and reducing sugar is good for our health.
Spicy cuisine has stronger anti-inflammatory properties. In countries where this type of food is widely consumed, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are less common, due to the antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects of spicy foods.
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