Each national cuisine boasts spicy and spicy dishes. Spices awaken appetite, tone up the digestive process, improve taste and warm the body. There is a statement that they stimulate hair growth, have a positive effect on the vocal cords, break up the feces of the large intestine, thin the blood, preventing thrombotic stasis.
Hot peppers, mustard, horseradish, garlic, onions - many people cannot do without it. But do they know that:
- Excessive eating of spicy foods is often the cause of gastritis. It irritates the mucous membrane and walls of the stomach, having a negative effect. There is an opinion that spicy food increases immunity, but this is far from the case. When spicy food enters it, the stomach cannot cope with pathogenic microbes and gastritis pathogens will triumph over the body.
- Doctors have found that migraines and headaches are linked to spicy foods. Although these cases are rare, nutritionists advise refraining from acute pain symptoms.
- Such food affects people like a drug. They quickly get used to it and are hard to wean, even if the doctor's prescriptions are to limit spicy foods. The reasons for this are quite understandable. Having tasted spicy, the body secretes endorphin, which is akin to morphine, a person gets high and experiences a kind of euphoria.
- Many people, after eating spicy foods, suffer from heartburn, which can only be overcome by resorting to medications, but they still do not stop getting carried away with such dishes. Chronic heartburn can subsequently trigger esophageal cancer. And this is no longer a joke diagnosis.
- Few people know, but insomnia is also caused by spicy food. If you have sleep disorders, it may be worth revising your menu and excluding some dishes from the diet. The development of migratory glossitis may be unnoticeable and caused by the consumption of such food. Due to burning seasonings, the receptors of the tongue are constantly irritated, and over time, the taste may disappear.
- Studies have shown that frequent consumption of spicy foods negatively affects mood, spoils character and destroys the nervous system.
Nutritionists advise against taking spicy and spicy foods, the consequences of which can be dire and extremely serious. If hot spices on the table have become not guests, but full members, like the first and second courses, they can be replaced with mild ones and added to food without fear of causing insomnia, migraines and heartburn.
