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Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

#101

Post by blackbeard »

netcan wrote: post #91

OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough. For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna… There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us…

What you're asking demands science in a field of marketing, journalism and baseless opinion. Good luck.

Then there's the almost cult-like religious aspects of fad diets to consider which almost drive the above.

Ugh.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by provemewrong »

saiya-jin wrote: post #95
provemewrong wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I also enjoy how spiciness brings out other flavours in food and makes it richer and more interesting What? I do like spicy food occasionally, but my main gripe with "very" spicy food is not how painful it is, but how the spiciness overwhelms all other flavors and it's the only thing you can taste. Like you might as well be eating chili paste because you can't taste anything else anyway.

well, you are simply having too much chilli in the food. good curry for example isn't one that burns your mouth (if you eat it regularly), but rather enrich all flavors present, including many other herbs and spices. if you don't feel anything else but burn, your cook ain't that good :)

Maybe, I had just observed that others seem really to enjoy the overwhelming burning sensation and drew conclusions that something must wrong with me if I want to taste something more than chili in my food.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by blackbeard »

codeshaman wrote: post #100

Shhh... Don't show it to my mother ! If she sees this, my whole family is going to be on a regimen of hot peppers until she reads something else :) My mother is the kind who changes the whole family's diet when she reads some sufficiently convincing diet book or study. At one point we ate dissociated food. At another point it was blood type food. At another point it was raw roots or something. I love my mother and sh…

Yes 100% this. This sounds like my mother.

She followed every nutritional fad that appeared on the table. I can remember nothing but horrors for dinner for the best part of 10 years of my life. She was scared of eating things in case it affected mortality in some way. In fact I ended up getting quite ill on occasion, now to what I know was simply malnutrition. This affected my schooling, my physical condition and my mental health at the time. The latter was quite devastating for a bit to be honest.

It wasn't until I got a shit job stacking shelves in a supermarket and moved out that I started eating properly and literally after a month I felt like a different person.

Now the cruel result; she had a heart attack and a stroke a couple of years ago due to what they reckon is 60 years of poor dieting.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by zimpenfish »

provemewrong wrote: post #90
adriand wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the endorphin theory is a pretty common explanation, but I think for me and for many others it's largely about flavour. I enjoy the flavour of chili peppers, and I also enjoy how spiciness brings out other flavours in food and makes it richer and more interesting.

>I also enjoy how spiciness brings out other flavours in food and makes it richer and more interesting What? I do like spicy food occasionally, but my main gripe with "very" spicy food is not how painful it is, but how the spiciness overwhelms all other flavors and it's the only thing you can taste. Like you might as well be eating chili paste because you can't taste anything else anyway.

Agreed - I have no problem with Nando's "Extra Hot" on the heat level but the spice overpowers everything else to the point of silliness. Dropping down to "Hot" keeps it spicy enough but without drowning the rest.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by tim333 »

netcan wrote: post #91

OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough. For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna… There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us…

> There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information."

You could always go for a nice curry and a pint.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

#107

Post by baseballmerpeak »

netcan wrote: post #91

OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough. For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna… There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us…

Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by thfuran »

baseballmerpeak wrote: post #107
netcan wrote: post #91

OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough. For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna… There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us…

Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.

Does it? I'm not dead yet.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by chestervonwinch »

leni536 wrote: post #104
haffi112 wrote: post #89

The more spicy food you eat the less crappy food you eat...? That could actually be the explanation (not a variable I saw corrected for in the text at least).

It makes sense, also fast food chains don't tend to make spicy food.

Not just fast food, but most restaurants in general. For someone who prefers a little kick, it's like the majority of bars serving only virgin cocktails. I made the mistake of asking for my meal to made a little on the spicier side(1) at one of these americanized mexican comfort food places. The waitress looked at me like I was asking her to calculate a double integral.

(1) This is common at Thai restaurants, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by djcapelis »

baseballmerpeak wrote: post #107
netcan wrote: post #91

OK health and nutrition people….. enough is enough. For generations you have been giving us little correlations, tidbits of mechanisms. Vitamin X, High Intensity Sleep, Antioxidants, Kale, CR… Hot off the presses… new experiment reintroducing critically endangered carnivorous gut fauna… There is nothing useful that we can do with this "information." It's just random letters from some book that you are throwing at us…

Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.

Strictly speaking, the human condition only has around a 94% fatality rate at the moment.

(110 billion humans in the history of the planet. Over 7 billion currently alive.)

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