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> The exact reasons and mechanisms that might explain our findings, though, are currently unknown. So they haven’t nailed down causation. Wonder if people who
by ochoseis 6y ago
> The exact reasons and mechanisms that might explain our findings, though, are currently unknown.
So they haven’t nailed down causation. Wonder if people who eat chili pepper generally consume less food because of the spiciness.
- darkwizard42 6y agoAnother interesting comment was that those who eat chili pepper have a wider spice tolerance and maybe end up eating a greater diversity of healthy foods (rather than traditional western diet staples). Jury is still out on that of course!
- sbierwagen 6y agoA heuristic: if somebody had demonstrated causation for a 25% reduction in all cause mortality, you wouldn’t be learning about it on HN first, because it would be the headline of every newspaper on the planet. 25% mortality reduction would be the biggest news in human health since germ theory.
- twangist 6y ago> Wonder if people who eat chili pepper generally consume less food because of the spiciness. No, we don't (consume less food).