Chili and tomato can prevent stroke

The researchers said that lycopene is a "potent antioxidant", found in tomatoes, red peppers, watermelon, papaya and other fruits and vegetables, not only can reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, but also can improve immune function, prevent platelet aggregation and thrombosis. Eat more tomatoes or lycopene-rich foods, and eat five kinds fruits and vegetables or more, can prevent stroke and other chronic metabolic diseases, improve the individuals health status.

In Chongqing of China, a lot of people love spicy food, according to related statistics, the top three hospitals in Chongqing, cardiovascular patients less than 5,000 a year. This is a very low cardiovascular disease incidence. Chinese epidemiological surveys show that coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, obesity and other metabolic cardiovascular disease have a big regional difference, with hypertension for example, in northern China, almost one in every five people will have hypertension, but in the South, the incidence of hypertension is only 15-18% or so. The incidence of this disease in northern region was significantly higher than South, one of the important reason is that the northern dietary salt intake is higher.

Capsaicin supplier claim that capsaicin can prolong life, dietary capsaicin can accelerate the body's metabolism, so whether dietary capsaicin can protect the cardiovascular system, reverse the damage of cardiovascular function? The researchers used genetic spontaneously hypertensive rats carried out experiments found that there are many vanilloid receptors in the vascular endothelium, after capsaicin activate capsaicin receptor can significantly enhance vasodilation and reduces spontaneously hypertensive large rat’s blood pressure.

In addition, capsaicin can cause cerebral vascular lumen thinning, the diameter increases, thus preventing stroke. Studies found that no fed capsaicin stroke type mice, only live an average of 70 days, but after fed capsaicin, the life expectancy was up to 100 days. There are many reasons to cause high blood pressure, dietary factor is just one of them, experiments on mice only can prove that eat chili is no harm. About people daily average eat how many chili, what kind of chili, how to eat in order to prevent high blood pressure, is a very complex issue.

Animal experiments can not be directly converted to guide clinical, to know from basic to clinical, from clinical to the base, the success conversion is not much, many results of experimental guidance can not be applied in clinical practice, if someone do capsaicin through permit medical evidence, it can be extended, but there is no evidence based medicine, so it can not be in clinical practice.

According to pharmaceutical raw materials suppliers, capsaicin has its role, such as benefits for cardiovascular disease, but no food is a perfect panacea, it does not mean that it can be infinitely eating because of beneficial to the body. Capsaicin contacts with the mucous membranes can cause burning sense and increased gastric acid secretion, as like caffeine beneficial for cardiovascular disease, but it may cause osteoporosis, capsaicin also cause ulcers, some skin infections, constipation, hemorrhoids and so on, a long-established eating habits of one place has its ecological significance and rationality, but whether it is suitability to transplant to other place requires further study.

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