There's more good news: Making your meals picante — at a more reasonable level — also has some health benefits , including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects. It also can boost your metabolism. For spicy food lovers, that's probably music to their ears — and antacid to their stomachs.
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Share Twitter Pinterest Email. If you're someone who suffers from acid reflux—something commonly brought on by the consumption of spicy foods—it can lead to not only vomiting but also to soreness, swelling, and "a horse, muffled voice. According to Barry Green, Ph. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven, Conn, simply touching some spicy foods can potentially have health risks.
They respond to temperature extremes and to intense mechanical stimulation, such as pinching and cutting; they also respond to certain chemical influences. The central nervous system can be confused or fooled when these pain fibers are stimulated by a chemical, like that in chili peppers, which triggers an ambiguous neural response. Here's why you're constantly blowing your nose when you eat something hot. Adding some kick to your food can be really healthy. But here are some notable risks.
By William Mayle. William Mayle is a UK-based writer who specializes in science, health, fitness, and other lifestyle topics. Read more. Nutmeg's use as a recreational drug has fallen out of favor though, likely because the side effects include dizziness, dry mouth, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and an infamous hangover.
In fact, take too much nutmeg, and it just might kill you. Though death by nutmeg is extremely rare, there are two reported cases of death in which the subjects had incredibly high levels of myristicin, nutmeg's most potent ingredient, in their bodies, indicating they had consumed about 14 grams of the spice though there are many reported cases of people consuming far more and recovering in a matter of days. You may love yourself some scorching hot chili peppers, but have you ever thought about whether any of them are hot enough to kill you?
Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers and black pepper, is what gives peppers their heat. In high enough doses it can increase the body's metabolic rate, and also causes tissue inflammation. Though a high dose could conceivably kill you, the body is far more likely to react by sweating, panting, and vomiting long before the capsaicin achieves fatal results. Sadly, it is children who have much more to fear from high levels of capsaicin. Smithsonian reported on two cases of children dying after eating or inhaling high levels of capsaicin-rich chili powder.
Death by Halloween candy? That's the deliciously diabolical scenario the American Chemical Society pondered when they sought to determine how much Halloween candy it would take to kill an average sized adult. The answer? About pieces of typical, Halloween-sized treats, or a little over five pounds of sugar. Of course, these fun-sized treats would need to be eaten all at once for the dose of sugar to potentially be toxic, as the body is only capable of breaking down a certain amount of sugar at a time.
In case you were thinking of trying this theoretical test for yourself, that's about 20, calories of candy you would need to consume — you are are far more likely to vomit long before you could prove the theory to be correct.
Yet another possible killer that you're keeping right there in your kitchen cupboard.
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