Spicy Food: fact or myth

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    zdyb23456 wrote: »
    What about the fact that you drink lots of water when you eat spicy food?! :smile:
    Although, some people like beer with spicy food which would negate any calories burn.

    Drinking lots of water won't raise your metabolism though . . .

    Sure it will. You burn extra calories everytime you have to run to the bathroom.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    I don't notice a metabolism lift, but it does lift my mood! Temporary though.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    You can out-eat an 8% metabolic advantage pretty easily.

    That would be only an extra 120 calories a day for me. FML.


    Not that I think it's true, but I don't think I could eat much spicier food. What about cinnamon? That's another miracle food.

    Also it doesn't raise it for 24 hours to begin with, so we're looking at maybe 2-3 hours of 8% extra.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    Unless you were to consume pure capsaicin the calories in chillis/hot sauce/peppers would probably outweigh the thermogenic effects.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,353 Member
    I have not read all the responses, but realize that how capsaicin boosts metabolism is by irritating or stressing your body. That is why a person gets hot when they eat something really spicy. However, if you regularly eat spicy food, your body adapts. You can see that adaptation in the fact that when you first try a spicy food, you get hot and sweaty. However, if you then incorporate that same spicy food as a regular part of your diet, the effect lessens over time. Your body is very good at maintaining your metabolic rate where it is. Those slight boosts through things like hot peppers, are adapted to fairly rapidly, so that 8% would decrease to a point it has not effect.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited April 2017
    Rusty740 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    zdyb23456 wrote: »
    What about the fact that you drink lots of water when you eat spicy food?! :smile:
    Although, some people like beer with spicy food which would negate any calories burn.

    Drinking lots of water won't raise your metabolism though . . .

    Actually....it does https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14671205 :)

    On a test with 14 people, they found a small impact when people drank 2 liters of water. That doesn't seem significant enough to note.
  • LessCookiess
    LessCookiess Posts: 538 Member
    I love spicy food!!!!
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I literally put hot sauce on everything and eat jalapenos everyday. My TDEE is still only 1800.
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