Burnin’ up

April 28, 2010

Eating hot, spicy foods helps you burn more calories? It may sound like an old wive’s tale, but new research from UCLA’s Center for Human Nutrition has found that consuming one meal containing the non-burning cousin of capsaicin (the substance in spicy foods that causes your body to heat up) does increase energy expenditure for several hours afterwards.

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Tags: calorie burn, calorie count, healthy eating, hot, spicy, weight loss