f hot peppers make you feel like you’re dying, first drink some milk. Once your mouth cools, you’ll be glad to know hot red peppers might be associated with a longer life.
A study by University of Vermont researchers, which was published in PLoS ONE earlier this month, looked at a large-scale US health survey and compared mortality data and self-reported hot red chili consumption among its subjects—some 16,000 of them, followed for 23 years. Subjects who said they ate hot red chilis regularly happened to die less often from heart disease or stroke than comparable subjects who did not eat hot peppers. [...]
The survey didn’t ask participants which type of chili peppers they ate, and there are five species of peppers, each with hot variants, including cayenne peppers, Tabasco peppers and Japanese peppers. Some websites claim there are nearly 100 types of hot peppers, including the hottest man made varieties that hurt significantly more than pepper spray. The survey question specifically asked about “red hot chili” peppers, so consumption of peppers like jalapeños may not have been factored in by participants, the study authors noted.
No comments:
Post a Comment