I ran into this interesting press release this morning and decided to share it here on the blog since I’m a big fan of chili peppers, especially if they’ll help us lose weight. Whoa!
New Evidence that Chili Pepper Ingredient Fights Fat
Scientists are reporting new evidence that capsaicin, the stuff that gives chili peppers their kick, may cause weight loss and fight fat buildup by triggering certain beneficial protein changes in the body. Their study, which could lead to new treatments for obesity, appears in ACS’ monthly Journal of Proteome Research.
Jong Won Yun and colleagues point out that obesity is a major public health threat worldwide, linked to diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and other health problems. Laboratory studies have hinted that capsaicin may help fight obesity by decreasing calorie intake, shrinking fat tissue, and lowering fat levels in the blood. Nobody, however, knows exactly how capsaicin might trigger such beneficial effects.
In an effort to find out, the scientists fed high-fat diets with or without capsaicin to lab rats used to study obesity. The capsaicin-treated rats lost 8 percent of their body weight and showed changes in levels of at least 20 key proteins found in fat. The altered proteins work to break down fats. “These changes provide valuable new molecular insights into the mechanism of the antiobesity effects of capsaicin,” the scientists say.
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And eat some chili peppers tonight, why don’t you? 
Chet
Thank you for that reminder.
Apparently it also helps in fighting Candida, Cancers and a host of other illnesses.
Also, Cayenne Pepper seems to have amazing healing properties. A neighbour had cut his hand really badly. I had read that Cayenne heals wounds rapidly, but warned him that I haven’t actually seen it, so no guarantees. He was happy to try it. I expected it to sting, but he said it didn’t, so we caked it on, watching the wound close up. No stitches, antiseptics or anything!
” Many of the old herbalist claim that in cases of severe cuts, gunshot wounds, etc.,
cayenne can be taken internally as a tea and the bleeding will stop by the time, in most cases, you can count to ten.
Cayenne goes immediately into the blood stream and adjusts the blood pressure from the top of the head, to the bottom of the feet, equalizing pressure over the whole body.
This takes high pressure, which casues rapid bleeding, away from the wound and clotting starts immediately.
There is also info on heart attacks and Cayenne.
Dr. John Christopher, famous natural healer, praised the use of Cayenne throughout the time of his practice. He wrote:
“In 35 years of practice, and working with the people and teaching, I have never on house calls lost one heart attack patient and the reason is, whenever I go in–if they are still breathing–I pour down them a cup of cayenne tea (1 teaspoon of cayenne in a cup of warm water, and within minutes they are up and around).
This is one of the fastest acting aids we could ever give for the heart, because it feeds that heart immediately.
Most hearts are suffering from malnutrition because of processed food we are eating, but here it gets a good powerful dose of real food and it’s something that has brought people in time after time.
This is something that everyone should know how great it is, because a heart attack can come to your friends or loved ones any time. And even yourself.
The warm tea is faster working than tablets, capsules, cold tea, because the warm tea opens up the cell structure–makes it expand and accept the cayenne that much faster, and it goes directly to the heart, through the artery system, and feeds it in powerful food.”
I haven’t tried it on heart attacks personally, so I’d be very interested to hear anyone who has had that experience.