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Spicy Foods May Help You Live Longer

24-Mar-2016

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Consuming spicy foods once a week reducing chances of death in next 7 years by 10 percent.

Improvement increases to 14% if eating spicy food 3-7 times a week.

Survey of 500,000 Chinese people taken from 2004 to 2008

Capsaicin, the active ingredient in spicy foods, is linked to a lower risk of cancer as well as heart and respiratory diseases.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Education of new generations of global health leaders

Lu Qi

HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Diet and Nutrition