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_Published 2015-08-05. A study using data from almost half a million Chinese adults is pointing to a solution for those who want to live longer — spicy food._


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## Transcript

Like spicy food? Turns out it might help you live longer. At least that's what a new study published in the medical journal The BMJ says. For the study researchers used data from about half a million Chinese adults who filled out health questionnaires between 2004 and 2008. Participants answered questions about their spicy food diet, if they had one and their health. About seven years later researchers followed up with them. What they found was those who ate spicy food at least once a week had a 10 % reduced risk of death compared to folks who ate spicy food less than one time a week. For those who ate spicy 3 to 7 days a week the risk decreased to 14 %.

Don't rush to the store to buy all the jalapeno peppers or tabasco sauce quite yet. The study's authors say more research is needed to see if spicy foods really do make people live longer. Still, eating spicy foods might have other health benefits such as helping with weight loss or preventing cancer. So it can't hurt to eat more. Well, as long as you don't mind spicy food.

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