Pepper and human health

Oct 10
08:41

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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When the chili spicy to stimulate the nerve endings of the tongue, mouth, brain will immediately commands the systemic "alert": rapid heart beating, increased secretion of saliva or sweat, stomach redouble "work", releasing endorphins at the same time.

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 If you eat more,Pepper and human health Articles brain would think the pain hit again, release more endorphins. Continuous release endorphins make people feel relaxed and excited, to produce "pleasure" after eat pleasure. Another factor that you eat chili addictive is the effect of capsaicin. When the taste sensory cells exposed to the capsaicin-sensitive, thus feel the food is taste good.

People eat chili, as long as no oral spicy injury, the taste instead sensitive. In addition, eating chili, saliva in the mouth, gastric secretion increased, gastric peristalsis acceleration, when a meal is not fragrant, appetite is reducing, you will produce the idea of eating chili. In fact, regardless of spicy food addiction or not, the right amount to eat chili certain therapeutic effect on the human body.

As mentioned earlier, peppers have a stimulating effect on the oral and gastrointestinal can enhance gastrointestinal motility, promote the secretion of digestive juices, improves appetite, and can inhibit the intestinal abnormal fermentation. Many medical studies have found that people eat hot peppers gastric ulcer incidence is relatively low. The peppers can stimulate the release of human prostaglandin E2, is conducive to promoting the regeneration of the gastric mucosa to maintain gastrointestinal cell function and prevention of gastric ulcer. Eat green peppers can prevent gallstones. Green peppers are rich in vitamins, especially vitamin C, allows the body of excess cholesterol into bile acids, which prevent gallstones, gallstones eat foods rich in vitamin C, green peppers, remission of disease. Pharmaceutical raw materials suppliers recently found that red apple and red pepper "Redskins" fruits and vegetables on the prevention and treatment of breast cancer and other tumor diseases.

Use pepper as the main raw material, together with the garlic, hawthorn extract and vitamin E, made health care products, can improve heart function, promote blood circulation. In addition, eat chili can reduce blood fat, reduce thrombosis, a certain preventive effect on the cardiovascular system diseases.

In recent years, scientists proved by experiments that capsaicin can not only significantly lower blood sugar levels, but also alleviate many of the diseases caused by skin pain. Studies have even found that consumption of pepper has a slimming effect, peppers contain an ingredient can dilate blood vessels and stimulate the body heat system, burn body fat effectively, accelerate metabolism, the body's calorie consumption faster, so as to achieve weight loss effect. In the Japanese market, there are a variety of pepper products suitable for consumption by women. Many women try to lose weight with eating raw chili. Eating a lot of raw pepper before eating food, on the one hand, to stimulate the stomach to not want to eat, on the other hand to help burn calories by pepper.

Chinese medicine believes that spicy food can not only promote blood circulation, but also to enhance the activity of brain cells, helping to slow aging and prevent many diseases. Through PH testing, the chili is belong to alkaline, the advantages of eating pepper is to reduce the acid content in the human body. Human diet are more like to eat acid food, so with high acid content in the body, so that the toxins in the body can not effectively excreted. Acid food chain to achieve a balanced state in the body, usually have to eat small amounts of food and vegetables which contains capsaicin, to ensure basic pH values in the balance of the state. In modern society, the human diet can not ensure that the acid-base balance of the body, leading to a state of frequently occurring, eat more alkaline foods are beneficial to the health of the body.

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