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Article: Hot news.(red pepper helps in keeping blood insulin levels at normal)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Hot red pepper spices may keep a lid on blood insulin levels, especially if you're overweight, says a new study.
For four weeks, Australian researchers fed 36 people either a bland (spice-free) diet or the same diet plus 30 grams a day of a chili blend that was 55 percent cayenne chili (the rest was water, sugar, salt, acetic acid, and xanthan gum). The blend supplied a daily dose of 30 mg of capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili.
Peak insulin levels were 36 percent lower in people who ate a chili-containing meal ...