Spicy Food Health: Spicy Food Helps Reduce Lower Blood Pressure. Healthy and Lifestyle now discuss about eating spicy foods that help decreasing human lower blood pressure. A new study finds an active ingredient that gives a sense of heat in chili or capsaicin is known to function to prevent blockages in blood vessels. Research scientists from the Chinese Military Medical University gave a diet rich in capsaicin in chili peppers which are found in hypertensive rats. This diet reduces blood pressure rats gradually, as reported in the journal Cell Metabolism, published by the Daily Mail.
Material works by activating capsaicin receptor channels in blood vessels. Compounds will increase the production of nitric oxide, the gas molecules that protect against inflammation and vascular dysfunction.
The researchers said further studies would be needed to see how many chili should be eaten every day in order to have a positive impact on humans.Professor Zhiming Zhu, who led the study, noted hypertension affects more than 20 percent of people in north-eastern China. Meanwhile in the south-west China who have a habit of eating spicy food menu only reaches 10-14 percent. In England, there was one person with hypertension among the three adults.