Hot peppers prolong life: it also helps against obesity and cancer!

The medical experts claim that people who regularly eat spicy foods will prolong their lives, and they are less likely to suffer from dangerous diseases, such as: cancer, heart and respiratory diseases.

“Our analysis suggests a relation between eating spicy food and the length of life, as well as reduced mortality,” a group of international researchers have published this study in the British Medical Journal.

“We’ve observed the habits of more than 500,000 Chinese people, between 30 and 79 years. This study showed that people who consumed spicy and hot food every day, lived longer and they suffered less from many diseases, including cancer.Our results corroborate the previous studies,which have pointed the potential protective effect of spicy food on the human health,” the researchers said that at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the University of Oxford and Harvard.

The medical experts assume that the main “suspect” for this is capsaicin, the active compound found in chili peppers. Capsaicin has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which helps in the fight against obesity and cancer.