UNKNOWN
BENEFITS OF PEPPER
INTRODUCTION;
When I was younger, I often heard the grown
ups say “pepper is just for taste” or “pepper does not have any nutritional
value in the body.” Well, am confident that after you`re done reading this
article, you will have a change of thought.
The consumption of spices example sweet tasty
delicious pepper could be associated to low rate of mortality. This research
was carried out on the people of china.
Capsaicin,
the main active ingredient in chillies, may improve blood cholesterol levels
and inflammation (Credit: Getty Images)
CAPSAICIN; A MAJOR
COMPONENT OF PEPPER.
The
major findings were that higher intake of spicy foods is related to a
lower risk of mortality, particularly deaths due to cancer, heart disease, and
respiratory diseases,” says researcher Lu Qi, professor of nutrition at
Harvard's school of public health.
This does not, however, mean that
starting to eat large quantities of chilli peppers will protect your health –
or protect you from respiratory illness – in the short-term.
It’s important to remember that the
China study followed people for a median time of seven years each. So even if
chillies had a protective effect on participants’ health, rather than the
people who ate chillies happening to be healthier to begin with, the effect
likely built up over time – not within weeks or months.
Qi tried to separate the effects of chilli
consumption from everything else by controlling for age, sex, education level,
marital status, diet and lifestyle factors including alcohol intake, smoking
and physical activity. He says the lower risk of disease relating to eating
chillies may be partly due to capsaicin. {a colorless pungent crystalline
compound derived from Capsicum, sourse of the hotness of hot pepper, such as
chilli, cayenne and jalapeno.}
“Certain ingredients
in spicy foods, such as capsaicin, have been found to improve metabolic
status, such as lipid profiles” – cholesterol in the blood – “and inflammation,
and these may partly account for the observations in our study.”
A number of studies
also have shown that capsaicin can increase the amount of energy we burn and can decrease
our appetites.
Zumin Shi, associate
professor at Qatar University's human nutrition department, has found that
chilli consumption is associated with lower risk of obesity and is
beneficial for high blood pressure. So when she studied
the effects of chilli pepper consumption on cognitive function, she expected a
hat trick.
In one study, people who ate more chillies had poorer cognitive function
But when she measured
Chinese adults’ cognitive function against their chilli consumption, she found
that people who ate more chillies had
poorer cognitive function. This effect was strongest with memory: chilli intake above 50g
per day was associated with almost double the risk of self-reported poor
memory. Still, it’s worth noting that self-reported data is widely considered
unreliable.
RESOLUTION;
The next time you hear
someone try to to disregard the importance of something created by God, please
think twice. (Genesis 1:30). I could understand when allergies are involved but
aside that, pepper is good for the body.
REFERENCES;https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-are-there-benefits-to-eating-turmeric-and-other-spices
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wow i hardly knew that
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