Spicy Foods The Key?

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From the Washington Post:

In 2015, a major study published in the British Medical Journal showed an association between consuming spicy foods and living longer. From 2004 to 2008, scientists enrolled more than half a million adults in China and tracked their health over the next several years. Several thousand in the group, not surprisingly, died during that time. [scroll for more:]

But the surprising part? Even after controlling for multiple possible confounders — such as smoking, physical activity, and intake of red meat and fresh fruits and vegetables — adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week. Eating spicy foods was associated with a reduced risk of death from cancer and heart and lung diseases.

 

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