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A new study presented at the Biophysical Society's 59th Annual Meeting in Baltimore revealed that capsaicin -- the ingredient in chili peppers that make them spicy -- can help prevent weight gain in mice fed a high-fat diet.
This may be a promising finding for obese people, who make up about one third of the world's population. The study's researchers at the University of Wyoming suggest that an ingredient in chili peppers, capsaicin, may help obese people manage their weight by boosting metabolism. What's more, the capsaicin stimulates the body to burn energy and create heat, and could induce white fat cells, the bad kind of fat, to become "good" brown fat cells.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/17/chili-pepper-benefits-obesity_n_6700778.html
This may be a promising finding for obese people, who make up about one third of the world's population. The study's researchers at the University of Wyoming suggest that an ingredient in chili peppers, capsaicin, may help obese people manage their weight by boosting metabolism. What's more, the capsaicin stimulates the body to burn energy and create heat, and could induce white fat cells, the bad kind of fat, to become "good" brown fat cells.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/17/chili-pepper-benefits-obesity_n_6700778.html