Can Eating Chili Help You Live Longer?

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It is interesting that the chili eaters had behaviors that are not considered conducive to good health, smoking , alcohol, meat and had lower HDL. However they tended to be younger which might have biased the study since younger people are expected to live longer than old people.
 
It is chili peppers not chili that was studied. Also Mexican Americans composed 58% of the chili consumers versus 17% for the non consumers. I didn't see any attempt to address this difference in the two populations that where studied.
 
gleem said:
For more bang for your buck seek out sauces with scotch bonnet peppers (Caribbean) or ghost peppers(India) Ghost peppers are reportedly 400 time hotter than regular chili's.

My daughter makes chili with ghost chilies:biggrin: any thing else is tastless