Monday, May 17, 2010

How peppers can help burn calories?

In India and in Mexico, chili or peppers are known to having aphrodisiac effects thus it is often labeled as a symbol of romance and exoticism. Together with the spiciness of the fruit lies an identifiable property that can also be attributed to romance and sexiness. Yes, according to studies, peppers are great agents that burns calories.

By simply making an observation, hot food makes one sweat thereby loosing calories. But further studies showed that there are properties in pepper that simply burn calories and use energy even by just consuming it. Capsaicin is the component that is present in most chili that brings forth this fat burning factor.

In the study, a batch of men and women has been tested. One group has been given with special formulated pill that contains chili properties and a meal while the other group is given by the same amount of meal yet with a placebo. It turns out that those who actually taken the pills with capsaicin burned fats at very observable amounts while the second group who partnered the meal with placebo simply does not register any change.

So how does peppers burn calories? 1) It can actually be a factor to lose weight as it can let you sweat because of the burning sensation brought about by capsaicin and 2) Capsaicin has been proven by the study shown above that it contains or rather it has the ability to actually burn calories stored up in a human body.

So peppers are really that a helper, now you can use your favorite workwear uniforms without thinking so much of your enlarged tummy, legs, or arms.

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