The Relationship between Diet and Acne (Source: Diet and Acne: Evidence Summary)
Eating Chili can cause cancer, or can it be treated?
When it comes to carcinogenesis or cancer treatment, we can't help but mention three dimensions of research: cell level, animal experiments and epidemiological research.
Some scholars believe that capsaicin has teratogenic effect and may cause cancer, which has been confirmed by some studies. However, evidence to the contrary is not without. Generally speaking, nearly a thousand basic studies show that capsaicin can induce cell death or stop cell division, so it can inhibit the proliferation of many cancer cells.
Of course, there is a huge difference between a Petri dish and a living organism, so capsaicin can't be considered as anti-cancer. You know, concentrated saline can also inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells. In contrast, animal experiments are more reliable, but there are dose problems in animal experiments. Some experiments show that capsaicin is not teratogenic, some experiments show that capsaicin can kill cancer cells, and some scholars successfully induce liver cancer with a diet containing 10% capsaicin. [6]
Epidemiological studies are equally ambiguous. The incidence of liver cancer and gastric cancer is very high in mexican american. Considering their dietary preferences, pepper seems to be responsible for this. However, in 20 15, China Academy of Medical Sciences conducted a large-scale research, and the survey population was close to 500,000. The results show that people who eat Chili peppers every day not only have fewer cancers, but also have fewer respiratory and circulatory diseases, and the total risk of death is low 14%. [7]
In the final analysis, capsaicin is involved in too many physiological processes and is related to many genes. [8] Moreover, the attitude towards pepper is influenced by income, region and other factors. Judging from the current research results, pepper can neither be considered carcinogenic nor anticancer. [6]
Can you lose weight by eating Chili?
Theoretically, yes.
Traditionally, people in tropical areas are obsessed with peppers because they can "sweat". After eating pepper, metabolism is accelerated, heat production is increased, and the human body is forced to dilate blood vessels and secrete sweat to cool down. Accordingly, energy consumption will increase, which is beneficial to maintaining weight.
A study on 20 10 shows that the efficacy of pepper is more than that. The researchers prepared two groups of mice, one group was given capsaicin and the other group was injected with normal saline. The examination shows that capsaicin can improve fat metabolism, and the weight measurement is more obvious. The former is generally lighter. [9]
However, in reality, peppers always appear with meat and oil. Even if capsaicin can improve fat metabolism, if energy intake is not controlled, I am afraid the weight loss effect is very limited.
In fact, natural food ingredients are so complex that it will be difficult to tell their effects on specific diseases for a while. Pepper is just a microcosm of the research road. In a word, it is safe to eat Chili in moderation. After all, pepper is essentially a vegetable and is rich in vitamin C.
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