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Written By: Poorva Chavan | Updated : February 10, 2015 10:50 AM IST
मिरची – मिरचीच्या वापरामुळे जसे पदार्थांचा स्वाद वाढतो तसाच आयुष्यातील ‘सेक्स’चा स्वाद वाढवण्यासाठी मिरची फार महत्त्वाची आहे. मिरचीच्या सेवनाने एन्डोरफीन (endorphin) या हार्मोन्सची शरीरातील निर्मीती वाढते व त्यामुळे सेक्सचा आनंद घेण्याची इच्छा देखील वाढण्यास मदत होते
Are you searching for weight loss foods? Your search ends here. You can eat more chillies to prevent weight gain. A study has revealed that chillies help you keep your body in shape and prevents weight gain. (Read: 7 healthy reasons to spice up your diet with chillies)
For the study, mice were fed with a high fat diet and it was revealed that a substance in chillies called capsaicin could be used as a dietary supplement. It was found that capsaicin may stimulate thermogenesis and energy burning by activating its receptors which are expressed in white and brown fat cells. The research opens ways to prevent and manage obesity and other health related complications such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension and other lifestyle diseases. These findings would require further controlled clinical trials on humans to prove these claims. (Read: Want a healthy weight loss? Drink red wine)
The research was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Baskaran Thyagarajan at the University of Wyoming. Vivek Krishnan, a graduate student working in Thyagarajan's laboratory at the University, explained that obesity is caused by an energy imbalance in body. The analysis of the laboratory data revealed that dietary capsaicin activates the receptor of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel protein and suppresses high-fat-diet-induced obesity. In trials with wild type mice, 0.01 percent of capsaicin in the total high fat diet-prevented high-fat-diet-induced weight gain but not in mice that genetically lacked TRPV1. (Read:10 weight loss foods that really work!)
According to the researchers, developing a natural dietary supplement as a strategy to combat obesity can be easily advanced to human clinical trials.
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