Posted on 01/16/2017 2:33:16 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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.
Going back for centuries, peppers and spices have been thought to be beneficial in the treatment of diseases, but only one other study—conducted in China and published in 2015
- has previously examined chili pepper consumption and its association with mortality.
This new study corroborates the earlier study's findings
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
When I was young, and living in a flop house with some rent splitting buddies, I used to eat pickled jalapenos out of the jar as my “football watching snack”. I went with those because it was the only snack food guaranteed not to be raided by my buddies so it’d be there for football watching day.
I also had pretty bad seasonal allergies.
By end of that football season, I was fair well acquainted with having hot peppered eyeballs.
LOL... at first glance I thought it said “decreased morality” and I thought, well, Italians... whatre ya gonna do?
When I was young I could eat jalapeno peppers whole. I’d keel over if I tried that now. But I still like my hot Mexican and Chinese food. Especially hot chunky salsa on my scrambled eggs or omelets. In fact I think I’ll have eggs & salsa for dinner tonite. Yummm.
My husband has started taking those.
Red jalapenos? I cook green and there is barely any heat. I always have to add ground red pepper to the dish for any heat.
Spices keep also keep ptomaine at bay.
May I say that if you prepare spicy food (e.g. Cut up peppers), without gloves, do not put your contacts in right after the process.
This has been a PSA.
5.56mm
The boys in the band approve
“One of my favorite side dishes is whole jalapeños sautéed in olive oil with garlic cloves and mushrooms. Cook them until the outside of the peppers are blackened and then I slice them up. Eat them seeds and all. Only part I discard are the stems.”
You are a man after my own heart, and seeing as peppers are good for our hearts, both of us will achieve immortality. Think I’ll try your recipe above. I love garlic and mushrooms too. I’ll bet it would taste good over pasta too, like over angel hair or linguine.
Pepper Ping
From the link:
From the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. In an article entitled "The Essential Medicinal Chemistry of Curcumin" Kathryn M. Nelson of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues from two other universities, said "not so fast." It turns out that the quality of the "studies" done in support of the spice's benefits seem to be quite bland, but at least there were a lot of them.
The claims of medicinal benefits are derived from in vitro testing, which is just a notch above worthless for determining whether a test compound will become a drug for a given indication. In vitro assays are, at best, a guide for establishing whether a particular experimental compound is "hitting" the desired target, and whether it can penetrate cells. Even the most potent compounds from in vitro screens have only a remote possibility of becoming a drug. The journey from a tiny glass well to efficacy in human is almost endless. There are so many things that go wrong.
The list of flaws that the group found in turmeric research is both amazing and revealing. It is no wonder why the stuff is useless:
"[M]any researchers have described the potential “dark side of curcumin”: the drawbacks noted for curcumin include its poor pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) properties, low efficacy in several disease models, and toxic effects under certain testing conditions."
"Web sites [have touted] the use of curcumin (and its primary commercial source, turmeric) as an anticancer agent, a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease, a treatment for hangovers, erectile dysfunction, baldness, hirsutism, fertility-boosting and contraceptive."
[Curcumin is like] a missile that has shown excellent promise in early testing (in vitro), even though this testing may have been bedeviled by design problems that led to several misfires. [Its] structure suggests that it might be unstable in a biological setting, and in fact, it is: both its in vitro and in vivo stabilities are abysmal [half-life of less than five minutes] relative to commercial drugs."
It is important, therefore, that any manuscript or research proposal that is based on the bioactivity [of curcumin] or its analogues addresses additional characteristics of this natural product: its chemical instability, poor ADME properties, potential toxicological effects, and its lack of success to date in the clinic."
And perhaps most important (emphasis mine)—Curcumin [belongs to a class of] compounds that have been observed to show activity in multiple types of assays by interfering with the assay readout rather than through specific compound/target interactions.
Mediterranean diets where they consume rosemary every day shows more longevity
How do you prepare them?
Rosemary is harder to ingest...unless it’s ground which to me defeats the purpose
aaaahhhhaaaahhhaaaa!!!!!
I learned about hot peppers the hard way about 35 years ago.
It wasn’t my eyes that I touched.
Hilarious story to tell now, but not in polite company.
Yeah, a lot of the pepper-type spices have anti-inflammatory effects. Not saying every one works exactly the same for everyone, or that the results are all identical. But you can probably find one or two that are helpful in some way.
Why not do both.
We evolved from the Paleo diet to the Med diet, with minimal carbs if any, and with the anti inflammatory spices combined with fresh fruits/veggies to snack on.
Oh, very good. I’ll look for the specks. Do you need to wear gloves when you cut them up?
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