However, these findings don’t necessarily mean that chili peppers are now the way to prevent heart disease and stroke. Cayenne peppers (red), bird's eye chili peppers (green) and habanero peppers (orange) have varying ... [+] degrees of hotness, on March 25, 2015 in Hingham, Massachusetts. People who tend to eat chili peppers more than four times a week may not be exactly the same as those who don’t eat any chili peppers. In other words, could red hot chili peppers and other peppers in this case be simply red herrings? In the words of Rizzo in the movie Grease, there are worse things that you could do than eat chili peppers.

Source: Forbes December 18, 2019 06:15 UTC