The amazing properties of hot peppers (of any kind – chili, cayenne, black, red, jalapeno and Thai hot pepper) to kill pathogenic bacteria have long been known to the inhabitants of the Asian region, especially India and Nepal. The most spicy, “fire-breathing” dishes come from there. This is understandable – the heat, constant humidity and unsanitary living conditions pose a threat to health. But by eating large quantities of pepper, the inhabitants of Asia put a powerful barrier to bacteria.
Now let’s think – have we seen a lot of obese Indians? And not because they are starving – the basis of the diet is made up of flat cakes, flat cakes and again flat cakes — but because of the high content of pungency in the dishes. Does pepper help you lose weight?
Hot pepper properties
Acceleration of metabolic processes, and, consequently, metabolism, is one of the main properties of pepper. Any type of pepper contains a substance capsaicin, which is responsible for the level of pungency in the pepper. Capsaicin raises body temperature and raises heart rate, and this effect lasts for 3 hours after spicy food has entered the body.
An amazing fact is that by eating a few slices of fresh chili during lunch, by the evening you can get rid of 200-300 calories that pepper burns. No fitness and diet! It is worth considering, isn’t it?
Bonuses will be a cleared nose during a cold and a strengthened immune system. Pepper is also indispensable for atherosclerosis, it helps to clear the walls of blood vessels from cholesterol plaques.
How to eat pepper and not stop breathing
Each organism is individual, and the slice of hot pepper with which one crunches appetizingly, the other can bring to a swoon, at least to tears. It is not so difficult to choose “your” type of pepper or the rate that suits you. Chili and cayenne peppers will suit “staunch” soldiers, and gentle young ladies will quite like jalapenos or white peppercorns, fragrant and not so hot.
Fresh pepper in any case should not be “washed down” with anything – neither ice water, nor milk, nor wine. The liquid will ignite the fire much more intensely, so it is more expedient to “seize” the pepper. Many wipe away their tears during a meal, but still continue to eat pepper – it’s delicious!
You should not get carried away with pepper for people suffering from allergic reactions and especially asthmatics, and you should also be careful with those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and have hemorrhoids. Recently, it has become fashionable to treat stomach ulcers, the cause of which is allegedly bacteria, namely hot pepper. Everyone should decide for himself, but only after consulting a specialist he trusts.