But in many provinces, eating spicy food is not an addiction, but a habit. The climate in the south is humid, and peppers are spicy and damp, which can resist the discomfort caused by the environment and improve their immunity.
With the improvement of health care awareness in recent years, many health experts believe that eating Chili peppers has a good preventive effect on cancer. Do peppers really have such magical effects? An institute organized an experiment with a scale of 500,000 people. Now the doctor will take you to find out and see if this statement is true or not.
Introduction: The nutritional value of pepper.
The content of vitamin C in pepper ranks first among many vegetables, which is 7~ 15 times that of tomato. The content of carotene, vitamin B, calcium, iron and other trace elements is also high, which is rich in nutritional value.
Its nutritional value is mainly reflected in the following two aspects:
1. Pepper is a healthy vegetable with high nutritional value. It not only contains capsaicin, but also contains rich vitamin C and carotene, which is very important for maintaining human health.
After being absorbed by the human body, they can promote the regeneration of immune cells and enhance the functions of many organs of the human body. Regular consumption can enhance physical fitness.
2. Capsaicin, folic acid, potassium, magnesium and other trace elements contained in pepper can resist inflammation and virus after being absorbed by human body, and can prevent human cells from becoming cancerous.
They can reduce the incidence of cancer and improve the anti-cancer ability of human body. In addition, they can also improve the function of human heart and prevent heart disease.
Relevant scholars said: This statement has some truth.
Our body is interacting with many carcinogenic factors all the time, which may lead to the instability of DNA and the transformation of cells in the body. In a sense, cancer will continue to happen.
But don't worry in this process, because human beings have formed a powerful immune monitoring system in the process of evolution, and when a single cancer cell appears in the body, it can be continuously removed.
Therefore, maintaining a good attitude can maintain a stable state in the body and achieve the best state of the immune system. Through good means, early screening and early diagnosis can be carried out, early cancer or precancerous lesions can be found, and cancer cells can be identified and eliminated in time.
An epidemiological survey organized by Harvard University shows that 500,000 people, aged between 25 and 80, participated in a one-year random interview survey. After a long investigation, 6000 of them were diagnosed with cancer.
The researchers analyzed their findings and found that peppers are closely related to cancer. The experimenters who eat Chili peppers with different times have different risks of developing digestive tract cancers, such as gastric cancer, intestinal cancer and esophageal cancer.
The higher the frequency of eating Chili peppers, the lower the risk of cancer. Although there is no direct relationship between them, it can be seen from the analysis of the research results that there is an invisible relationship between them.
In addition to photography research, Peking University also made a similar report, and the result was the same as that of Harvard University. Eating spicy food often can reduce the risk of cancer and death.
Similarly, a study published in the journal Circulation in 2020 showed that eating spicy food for a long time can prolong life. After data analysis, the researchers found that:
Compared with people who seldom eat spicy food or don't eat spicy food, the risk of all-cause death, cardiovascular disease death and cancer death is reduced by more than 20%.
Xu Bo, MD, said: Eating spicy food frequently is directly related to reducing all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and cancer mortality, indicating that diet plays an important role in health.
1, appetizing and digestion promoting
Stimulating appetite and promoting digestion is one of the important benefits of people eating Chili, because people can absorb rich capsaicin when eating Chili, which can promote the secretion of digestive juice and increase appetite.
In addition, it can dispel the cold in the human body, warm the stomach, and prevent and relieve symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea caused by human chills.
2. Accelerate blood circulation
Accelerating the circulation of the body and improving the speed of blood flow are important benefits of eating Chili, because Chili tastes spicy and has many functions such as sweating and promoting blood circulation.
After people eat it, it can speed up the blood flow in the body and dilate blood vessels. It can relieve the symptoms of human body's fear of cold as soon as possible and prevent frostbite.
3. Reduce fat and lose weight
Reducing fat and losing weight is also an important benefit for people to eat Chili, because capsaicin contained in Chili can promote the rapid decomposition of fat in human body, and its dietary fiber can also enhance the satiety of human body and reduce the absorption of heat by human body.
It can accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of excess fat in human body, prevent the occurrence of hyperlipidemia, lose weight and make people slim.
4, pain relief and heat dissipation
Eating Chili can also play an important role in relieving pain and dissipating heat. It can promote the opening of pores on the surface of human body and reduce body temperature to some extent. When people have a fever at ordinary times, timely use can improve symptoms. In addition, it can also relieve muscle soreness and reduce the sensitivity of the human body to pain.
1. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Pepper can promote blood circulation and make patients' heart beat faster. If the consumption is large in a short time, it will easily lead to serious consequences of heart failure or even sudden death.
2, patients with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, esophagitis: due to the stimulation of capsaicin, mucosal congestion and edema, erosion, gastrointestinal peristalsis increased sharply, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea and so on. , but also affect the recovery of digestive function.
3. People with chronic cholecystitis, gallstones and chronic pancreatitis: Due to the stimulation of capsaicin, gastric acid secretion increases, and hyperacidity can cause gallbladder contraction and biliary sphincter spasm, which leads to difficulty in bile discharge, thus inducing cholecystitis, biliary colic and pancreatitis.
4, hemorrhoids patients: due to the stimulation of capsaicin, hemorrhoids venous congestion and edema can aggravate hemorrhoids and even form anal abscess. In addition, pepper will aggravate constipation and make hemorrhoids worse.
5, maternity, pregnant women: not only can there be aphtha, dry stool, but also get sick because of breastfeeding babies.
6. Nephropathy patients: Because capsaicin is excreted through the kidney, it is harmful to renal parenchymal cells, which can cause renal function changes and even renal failure in severe cases.