Health Benefits — spicy food

By now you’ve probably heard some of the health benefits of eating hot peppers, but what about the seeds? If it’s healthy to eat hot peppers, it’s certainly healthy to eat the seeds, right? Not so fast.

Not only does spicy food taste great, but there are several benefits to eating spicy food. To begin with, spicy food may help you lose weight, or at least maintain your weight. That’s right, you may actually be able to eat more to lose weight. That’s because eating spicy food can help boost your metabolism.

You may love the taste of spicy food, and really, who doesn’t? But have you ever wondered why spicy food sometimes makes your nose run? The answer has to do with capsaicin. That’s the compound found naturally in hot peppers that makes them so hot.