{"id":84398,"date":"2026-07-13T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84398"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:13:18","slug":"spicy-foods-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/spicy-foods-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicy Foods The Key?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Washington Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RGXMV5GZMRFY7AIGRAGKTATBRQ\" data-el=\"text\">In 2015, a major\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26242395\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26242395\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">study<\/a>\u00a0published in the British Medical Journal showed an association between consuming spicy foods and\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/03\/31\/small-habits-longer-life\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/03\/31\/small-habits-longer-life\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">living longer<\/a>. 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.\u00a0[scroll for more:]<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- spiritdaily.org --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6350947343102800\" data-ad-slot=\"9237292177\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SMV2PI7R2ZGG7EYR4M4KIEBC6M\" data-el=\"text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But the surprising part? Even after controlling for multiple possible confounders \u2014 such as smoking,\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/10\/30\/why-exercise-helps-depression\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/10\/30\/why-exercise-helps-depression\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">physical activity<\/a>, and intake of\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/21\/red-meat-cancer-health\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/21\/red-meat-cancer-health\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">red meat<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/interactive\/2026\/healthy-eating-longevity-quiz\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/interactive\/2026\/healthy-eating-longevity-quiz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">fresh fruits and vegetables<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 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\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/05\/27\/decrease-risk-cancer-science\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/05\/27\/decrease-risk-cancer-science\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/02\/19\/habits-for-heart-health\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/02\/19\/habits-for-heart-health\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">heart<\/a>\u00a0and lung diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: In 2015, a major\u00a0study\u00a0published in the British Medical Journal showed an association between consuming spicy foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84399,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84398\/revisions\/84399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}