Chili Peppers Can Boost The Chance Of A Long Life

Not everyone likes spicy food. However lucky those who love it because chilli is known to reduce the chances of death.

This was revealed from research done Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, USA. Those who love to eat the chili had a 13 percent smaller for experiencing premature death due to chronic diseases.

Researchers conduct observations on the eating patterns of 16,000 people United for 2 years. At the end of the study recorded 4,946 people died.

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Then how big is the difference in the risk of death for the chili lover and who is not? Researchers noted, total mortality or death on the participants consuming chili peppers reach 21.6 percent, while for those who never or rarely eat a chili pepper reached 33.6 percent or 12 percent at loggerheads.

When tailored to the demographics, lifestyles and its clinical characteristics, this difference increased to 13 percent.

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"Although the mechanism is unclear, we suspect it has something to do with the Transient Receptor Potential (TRP), which is the main receptor for capsaicin content of such foods," says one of the researchers, Gus Chopan. This research holds together Chopan his old, Benjamin Littenberg, MD.

Capsaicin, advanced researcher, is believed to play an important role in the mechanism of the cellular and molecular level that can prevent obesity and facilitate coronary blood flow.

"Capsaicin also contains antimicrobial properties that will affect the body by way of change of the microbiota in the gut," knot Chopan as reported Science Daily.

Chopan adds, they do not see any influence lifestyle against the low risk of death that is chili connoisseur owned. Because basically, most of the participants have a habit like smoking, eating meat, alcohol, and also have good cholesterol levels (HDL).

That is, only because eating chili, the risk cardiovascular disorders they are drastically reduced, even as they pocketed risk factors risk factors of the condition.

On the other hand, most of the chronic diseases that are inevitable because of the successful eating chilies is cardiovascular disorders among them heart disease and stroke.