The Journal of Preventive Medicine recently published by the World Health Organization once again published an article warning people not to eat too much pepper. Dr. gannett from the Cancer Institute of Nebraska State University Medical Center said that pepper contains carcinogenic chemicals, but it also has the function of preventing cancer. The question is how much to eat.
Epidemiological surveys conducted by Dr. gannett and others in India and South Korea confirmed that capsaicin may be the cause of colon cancer. Pepper is irritating and contains capsaicin, which can stimulate the irritating receptors in the mouth, causing blood pressure changes and sweating. Eating too much can lead to nerve damage and gastric ulcer. Evidence from animal experiments shows that once the pepper is absorbed into the blood from the intestine, it can be transported to the liver for storage and become a beneficial anticancer substance. However, capsaicin can also destroy cells in the liver, disrupt biochemical processes in cells, and become a component that absorbs free radicals. Some researchers believe that some free grass roots are the cause of cancer.
Dr gannett pointed out that capsaicin in canned peppers and food preservatives BHA and BHT play a dual role in cancer prevention and carcinogenesis. These three ingredients are antioxidants, which can prevent tissues and some foods from spoilage, but their effects depend on the content of these substances in the body. The more they are, the more toxic they are and the more likely they are to cause cancer. The fewer of them, the better. So we must pay attention to the way we eat pure spicy food. We can't think that pepper can prevent cancer, just eat too much. We should eat it in moderation, because good peppers have many benefits.
The content of vitamin C per 100 grams of pepper is as high as 198 mg, ranking first among vegetables. Vitamin B, carotene and minerals such as calcium and iron are also rich. Medical experts believe that pepper can relieve cold pain in chest and abdomen, stop dysentery, kill parasites in stomach and abdomen, and control heart disease and coronary atherosclerosis; It can also stimulate oral mucosa, cause gastric peristalsis, promote saliva secretion, enhance appetite and promote digestion.
Spicy food has the functions of sterilization, antisepsis, seasoning, nutrition, and dispelling cold, and has played a positive role in preventing and treating diseases, improving genes, and promoting human evolution. Therefore, adding a little pepper to your daily menu is of great benefit to your health.
Pepper weight loss tips
Pepper, the reason that people can't refuse is: burning fat and cultivating oneself!
Capsaicin is the key to burning fat in pepper. As long as you eat one or two spoonfuls, the stimulating taste will immediately send a signal to the brain that "enough is enough", resulting in a great loss of appetite. At the same time, another important function of capsaicin is to stimulate the body's heat-producing system and accelerate metabolism. A fast heat-generating system can improve the working efficiency of the body, just as a fast-running machine consumes a lot of hydrocarbon fuel.
After eating a spicy meal, you can consume more than 25% calories. When spicy food is burning in the stomach, it is more obvious to drink a cup of caffeine-rich black tea. Pepper can also promote the production of two enzymes in the body. In the process of burning fat, they can "persuade" fat cells to unload, while preventing excessive accumulation of fat. This method of losing weight does not need any dietary rules, because capsaicin stimulates the production of endorphins and serotonin, which will also make you feel good.
In the daily diet, what should I do if I want to eat without worrying about my health? The first course needs to be spicy, which is to burn calories better next. If you want to control your appetite, you must remember that protein's rich food is easy to increase your appetite, so put more onions and shallots in your dishes. Don't use packaged spices, because they are all substitutes for capsaicin and don't work. Finally, the spicy food is ready, and if it is kept for 2 hours, the capsaicin will automatically heat up.
But what if someone is afraid of eating spicy food? Spicy is caused by capsaicin, which stimulates the pain of nerve endings. There is a good way to make your mouth not afraid of spicy food: eat Chili regularly, let it adapt little by little, and the pain in your brain will gradually numb.
Beginners who eat spicy food are advised to take a sip every day for lunch and dinner at first, and then drink some milk or yogurt, because protein in milk can relieve the taste stimulation and stomach acid caused by capsaicin. In addition, you can gradually adapt to the spicy taste of spices containing Chili powder, and then gradually expand your tolerance for Chili. It is ideal to eat green pepper, which is rich in vitamins and relatively less capsaicin. Green pepper tastes good and can avoid stomach acid.
While eating spicy food, you must eat breakfast: wake up the metabolic system in the body to prevent hunger from invading later; Choosing low-fat milk can make you feel full immediately; Don't eat cream cake often in the morning. On the contrary, we can eat some Chili slices. Eat fruit four times a day to supplement vitamins and rich fiber. There are two kinds of people who should be careful when eating Chili.
Pepper is a tonic for women.
Pepper is spicy and stimulating, which has a good effect on stimulating appetite. However, many women think that eating Chili peppers is easy to get angry, which leads to "small acne" on their faces. So in order to be beautiful, although they love to eat Chili, they also control their appetite and stay away from Chili.
However, the research conducted by the German Institute of Nutrition Medicine and Nutrition shows that spicy condiments such as pepper and pepper can effectively help people lose weight. Spicy condiments will make consumers sweat, thus increasing the energy consumption of the body.
To some extent, pepper is a "tonic" for women, not a "natural enemy". Because pepper not only has bactericidal effect, but also contains a substance called capsaicin, which can promote hormone secretion, thus accelerating metabolism to achieve the effect of burning body fat, thus playing a role in losing weight. And the ingredients of pepper are natural and reliable. In some areas dominated by spicy food, local women not only have less acne problems, but also have slippery skin. It seems that women who eat spicy food can safely eat Chili.
Pepper can prevent heart disease.
Pepper can promote blood circulation, increase vascular elasticity, reduce the chance of arteriosclerosis, and help prevent cardiovascular diseases. Pepper is also rich in vitamin C, which has antioxidant effect, enhances the body's resistance and delays aging.
Pepper is suitable for people with cold buttocks.
Although eating spicy food has many benefits, Chinese medicine believes that whether eating spicy food is beneficial varies from person to person. Spicy food is only suitable for people with cold foundation deficiency. As the saying goes, "cold is hot, and deficiency is tonic." People with cold foundation deficiency and cold have slow blood circulation, and often have symptoms such as cold hands and feet, weakness of limbs, low blood pressure and dizziness. Therefore, eating more spicy and warm food can promote blood circulation and help alleviate the symptoms of deficiency and cold.
On the other hand, pregnant women should not eat spicy food often because of heat, yin deficiency, damp heat and sweating, or they will be heated, which will aggravate the discomfort of hot air, dry mouth, redness and fever, and the consequences may be more serious.
Even people with cold buttocks should eat properly according to their physical condition, because eating too much will produce hot air at any time and sweat too much, which will lead to water loss, sore throat and swollen teeth, but it will be counterproductive. So it is ok to eat spicy hot pot once or twice occasionally, add two drops of spicy oil and use pepper as seasoning, but not every day.
Japanese female pepper
In recent years, peppers are very popular among Japanese women, especially many obese women and girls who are worried about getting fat. In addition to eating Chili peppers at home, they often carry a small bottle of Chili peppers or Chili noodles with cosmetic boxes or powder bags in their handbags.
The reason is that pepper is said to have a good effect on losing weight. In order to cater to this new fashion, many beverage companies compete to make new spicy drinks with pepper as raw material. Therefore, the import of Japanese peppers has also increased. According to statistics, Japanese peppers imported from China and Thailand are increasing year by year.
If you eat too much pepper, you will be poisoned.
Pepper has the functions of dissipating heat at moderate temperature, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. It can be used as both seasoning and dish, and many people like it very much, especially southerners.
But this kind of food should not be eaten more, because pepper is poisonous, and overeating can make the body hot and humid, which is manifested as acne on the skin, increased blood pressure, aggravated hemorrhoids, nosebleeds and so on. If you eat pepper in large quantities for a long time, it will cause poisoning symptoms, such as burning sensation in the stomach, bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and even vomiting blood, hematuria, nosebleeds, and increased or decreased blood pressure. Animal experiments have confirmed that capsaicin, the main component of pepper, has certain influence on the circulatory system, which can cause transient blood pressure drop, slow heartbeat and dyspnea. So eat too much pepper and be careful of poisoning.