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If you like eating spicy foods, researchers have some good news: You’re
likely to have more years to enjoy them.
Compared to people who ate spicy foods less than once a week, those who at
them at least three to five times per week were 14% less likely to die while
they were being tracked by the international research team. In addition,
those who ate spicy meals once or twice a week were 10% less likely to die
during the study period, according to a report published this week in the
medical journal BMJ.
Scientists have long recognized that spices have beneficial health effects.
In particular, capsaicin – the ingredient that gives chili peppers their
bite – has been shown to fight inflammation, high blood pressure, obesity
and cancer, among other ills. Experts also speculate that the antibacterial
properties of spices might improve health by influencing the community of
microbes in the gut.
To try to get a better handle on some of these questions, an international
group of researchers turned to 487,375 people who were participating in the
China Kadoorie Biobank study, an effort that aims to track the causes of
chronic diseases in the world’s most populous country. All of the
participants were between the ages of 30 and 79 when they entered the study,
and they were tracked for an average of 7.2 years.
Upon joining the study, the volunteers answered detailed questions about
their health history, lifestyle choices and eating habits – including how
often they ate spicy foods. The researchers synced up their answers with
death records to see whether they could find any correlations between spice
consumption and causes of death.
Overall, they found that the more often spicy foods were eaten, the more
likely they were to be alive at the end of 2013. This was true even after
taking age, gender and other factors into account.
But not all causes of death appeared to be influenced by spice consumption,
according to the study. Compared to those who ate spicy foods less than once
a week, those who ate them six or seven days a week were 29% less likely to
die of respiratory diseases, 22% less likely to die of ischemic heart
disease, 8% less likely to die of cancer, and 14% less likely to die of all
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