Cannot Live Without SPICY?
Spicy foods is one of the favourable foods in the world. The spicy chemicals called capsaicin, provide numerous vitamins and minerals that useful to our body. This spicy foods perform good effects as it helps body to fight obesity by improving satiety, shrinking fat tissues and increase thermogenesis that beneficial for our metabolism. It also one of the food that have natural aphrodisiac by stimulating endorphins hormones (feeling good chemicals) and at the same time improve the libido for the quality of your sexual life.
Since so many people love to eat spicy, one of the most common questions raised is does spicy foods harmful to the health?
Spicy foods may have harmful effects if consumed it extremely such it can weaken the stomach protective layers and worsen gastric ulcers if people have heartburn, GI ulcers and hemorrhoid. It is best to avoid extremely spicy foods as it can aggravating such conditions. Other than that, it is associated with kind of allergic reaction that called as geographic tongue that cause discomfort. As it can raised the body temperature, it may triggers insomnia.
Spicy foods lovers can follow this guidelines:
Spices should be taken during main meals
Avoid combination of fried oily and spicy food as it can increase acid secretion
Avoid having spicy food in late night meals
Drink milk to neutralize acid secreted by spicy food
Take antacids 1 hour after spicy meal if experiencing digestion issue due to spicy foods.
Keep in mind the quotes, ‘moderation is the key’, spicy foods is not harmful if people not taking it extremely and well prepared.
The Medical Humanities, BMJ studies stated that frequent intake of spicy foods was inversely associated with total and certain cause death.
