Researchers were studying the benefits of eating hot chili peppers and discovered they may result in a longer life. (Science Daily: Eat hot peppers for a longer life? Study)
Like spicy food? If so, you might live longer, say researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, who found that consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13 percent reduction in total mortality -- primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke -- in a large prospective study.
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Have we got your attention now?
The study is remarkable since the subjects manifest behavior which should be detracting from life expectancy (e.g. smoking cigarettes) and yet the observation is their mortality is reduced. Maybe that shows the healthful potency of hot chili peppers is something which even counteracts negative effects.
Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) III data collected from more than 16,000 Americans who were followed for up to 23 years, medical student Mustafa Chopan '17 and Professor of Medicine Benjamin Littenberg, M.D., examined the baseline characteristics of the participants according to hot red chili pepper consumption. They found that consumers of hot red chili peppers tended to be "younger, male, white, Mexican-American, married, and to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and consume more vegetables and meats . . . had lower HDL-cholesterol, lower income, and less education," in comparison to participants who did not consume red chili peppers. They examined data from a median follow-up of 18.9 years and observed the number of deaths and then analyzed specific causes of death.
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Don't go dashing out to buy up a truckload of peppers since isolating the dependent variable in such studies is a difficult thing. People in the observed group often have a deep belief in religion so possibly that reduces mortality and peppers have nothing to do with it. We're not proposing that but such studies are difficult and eliminating irrelevant variables is the toughest part.
The study doesn't tell us if Wasabi, a Japanese variety of horseradish, also confers such benefits. Lotho can eat Wasabi like it's ice cream and his health holds up seemingly quite well but we might need a larger sample size than he alone.
If you have never eaten sushi with Lotho and his clan then (sob) you have never really eaten sushi. With Lotho's sushi rules, life is simple: try everything. There's none of this suburban stuff about eating only Maguro (i.e. tuna) and then calling it a sushi day. Lotho enjoys asking the sushi chef to surprise him so do plan on adding more than Maguro to your life.
Maybe you think he strikes the pose of a San Franciscan hipster but the cat is in Tennessee; he's not trying to impress anyone. Surprise me, garçon, and keep it coming!
I don't know if he learned that from our ol' Dad but both have the same omnivorous palate. The 'rents came to Rhode Island one time. Think of it from my ol' Dad's standpoint since he had lived by the coast in one country or another since he was a kid but that stopped when we came to America so he really hadn't run into fresh-out-of-the-water seafood in decades.
I took him to a seafood restaurant and I swear he tried every damn thing in it. No-one kept up with him.
If you can keep up with he and Lotho then go ahead and call yourself a gourmet but we don't want to hear from foodies since they're apparently some kind of Neanderthal gourmets or some such. If you will be a gourmet, own it ... revel in it. Give Lotho you a shot at showing you sometime and you will be reveling in it in no time.
While this kind of diet, as with chili peppers, probably won't extend your life, it certainly won't take anything away from it.
Note: Japanese enjoy some of the best health and lowest rates of obesity anywhere on the planet so they just might have this right.
Like spicy food? If so, you might live longer, say researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, who found that consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13 percent reduction in total mortality -- primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke -- in a large prospective study.
- SD
Have we got your attention now?
The study is remarkable since the subjects manifest behavior which should be detracting from life expectancy (e.g. smoking cigarettes) and yet the observation is their mortality is reduced. Maybe that shows the healthful potency of hot chili peppers is something which even counteracts negative effects.
Using National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) III data collected from more than 16,000 Americans who were followed for up to 23 years, medical student Mustafa Chopan '17 and Professor of Medicine Benjamin Littenberg, M.D., examined the baseline characteristics of the participants according to hot red chili pepper consumption. They found that consumers of hot red chili peppers tended to be "younger, male, white, Mexican-American, married, and to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and consume more vegetables and meats . . . had lower HDL-cholesterol, lower income, and less education," in comparison to participants who did not consume red chili peppers. They examined data from a median follow-up of 18.9 years and observed the number of deaths and then analyzed specific causes of death.
- SD
Don't go dashing out to buy up a truckload of peppers since isolating the dependent variable in such studies is a difficult thing. People in the observed group often have a deep belief in religion so possibly that reduces mortality and peppers have nothing to do with it. We're not proposing that but such studies are difficult and eliminating irrelevant variables is the toughest part.
The study doesn't tell us if Wasabi, a Japanese variety of horseradish, also confers such benefits. Lotho can eat Wasabi like it's ice cream and his health holds up seemingly quite well but we might need a larger sample size than he alone.
If you have never eaten sushi with Lotho and his clan then (sob) you have never really eaten sushi. With Lotho's sushi rules, life is simple: try everything. There's none of this suburban stuff about eating only Maguro (i.e. tuna) and then calling it a sushi day. Lotho enjoys asking the sushi chef to surprise him so do plan on adding more than Maguro to your life.
Maybe you think he strikes the pose of a San Franciscan hipster but the cat is in Tennessee; he's not trying to impress anyone. Surprise me, garçon, and keep it coming!
I don't know if he learned that from our ol' Dad but both have the same omnivorous palate. The 'rents came to Rhode Island one time. Think of it from my ol' Dad's standpoint since he had lived by the coast in one country or another since he was a kid but that stopped when we came to America so he really hadn't run into fresh-out-of-the-water seafood in decades.
I took him to a seafood restaurant and I swear he tried every damn thing in it. No-one kept up with him.
If you can keep up with he and Lotho then go ahead and call yourself a gourmet but we don't want to hear from foodies since they're apparently some kind of Neanderthal gourmets or some such. If you will be a gourmet, own it ... revel in it. Give Lotho you a shot at showing you sometime and you will be reveling in it in no time.
While this kind of diet, as with chili peppers, probably won't extend your life, it certainly won't take anything away from it.
Note: Japanese enjoy some of the best health and lowest rates of obesity anywhere on the planet so they just might have this right.
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