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 related to 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 "diet pills" that hit, considering all of the respondents in the study obesity and caloric intake had a measured and controlled nutrition experts.

While awaiting the final results of the research in this field, it never hurts to add a spicy flavor in makanan.kalori and less fat from food.