Hot Pepper Pain Reduce Calories

Pepper, the very nature complement the menu to add a spicy flavor, it brings a beneficial side effect of waist circumference. A spicy flavor from the pepper turns out to burn calories and less fat from food.

Spicy flavor components in pepper triggers associated with capsaicin, called dihydrocapsiate (DCT), which generate a sense of warmth in the body it can be modified to reduce calories and burn fat.

"DCT cause an increase in burning calories," says David Heber MD, PhD, a researcher from the University of California Los Angeles. However, the increase was not very big, about 100 calories a day in women and 200 calories in men. Fat is burned and not too much.

Although structurally related to capsaicin DCT of pepper, DCT does not provide a sense of "bite" as well as capsaicin.

In a series of research, Heber and his research team involving 51 men and women. All respondents are overweight and they get food intake in liquid form as many as 800 calories a day. Random, the respondents received DCT or placebo capsules in doses of 3 mg or 9 mg. Each does not know whether a placebo or DCT.

At the beginning of the study and four weeks later, the team of researchers measured the rate of metabolism and heat production after getting the 400-calorie liquid diet.

Respondents who received 9 mg capsules DCT produces higher heat and burning more fat than the group that received placebo.

Nevertheless, the researchers did not want to hastily conclude that the pepper is a "diet drugs" are apt, considering all respondents in the study of obesity and caloric intake had a measured and controlled nutrition experts.

While awaiting the final results of the research in this field, it does not hurt to add spicy flavor in foods.