So… eating hot chilli peppers will make you live longer

Consuming red hot chilli peppers (the food, not the band) can make you live longer a new study has found.

The study by the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont saw a “13 percent reduction in total mortality”. In essence you are 13% less likely to die.

While there is little information on why the sample of 16.000 Americans who were followed up after 13 year showed a significant difference between those who took chilli peppers and those who didn’t. The big changes were seen in deaths linked to strokes and blood pressure. Some have been linked to a component which reduces obesity. The nutrients in hot red chili peppers such as B-vitamins, vitamin C and pro-A vitamin could also partly account for its protective effect.

So now you can dig into your chillis, because they make you live longer.

Yummy!