Health Benefits — lose weight

If you’re trying to lose weight, you may want to take another look in your kitchen. Certain spices are said to be beneficial when it comes to weight loss. University researchers recently looked at four specific spices, their safety, and their effectiveness in promoting weight loss.

If you’re trying to lose weight fast, you don’t have to rely on crazy gimmicks. Most of the time you’ll probably end up just regaining the weight when you go back to your old habits. Instead, think about making some real changes to your lifestyle. It’s possible to lose weight quickly and safely, but it starts with choosing the right foods. That includes getting more spicy food in your diet. It’s thought capsaicin, the compound found naturally in hot peppers, may help increase the release of stress hormones, like adrenaline. In turn, it can speed up the burning of calories....

It’s hard to pass up the chance to experiment with the hot pepper scale. After all, many of us find ourselves drawn to the heat, as we brave hotter and hotter peppers for their flavor, and sometimes for bragging rights.

You’ve probably heard the importance of eating fruits and veggies Or even about adhering to the old food pyramid we learned about in school, but there’s something out there now called the five-a-day. That’s the theory that people who eat five servings of...