Hot? Eating chili sauce is the solution

Chili sauce and spicy foods are common in countries with a hot climate, In fact, eating a meal containing chilli or pepper makes us sweat and swelter. Why is that? When the weather is hot, we normally cool ourselves by eating ice cream or drinking ice water. Similarly, when the cold, we'd rather eat hot soup and other spicy foods.

Meanwhile, according to scientists, even spicy foods that can lower our body temperature, not cold drinks. "Whatever the cooler food than our body temperature will initially produce systemically cooling effect," said Gerard E Mullin, Director of Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, as told to The Seattle Times. Where parts of the body that come into contact with the ice cream to cool down, because the heat transferred to the ice cream. However, the effect is only about 15-20 minutes before the ice cream produces the opposite effect.

However, after the digestive process, the body temperature back up. Because the body works to digest and absorb nutrients from ice cream to save calories at the same time. "The body will respond to the loss of energy or heat by increasing blood flow to the area last winter. As a result, the body temperature will return to normal (37 degrees Celsius)," said Barry G. Swanson, professor and chair of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Washington State University.

How about spicy food? Could these foods can actually cool our body temperature? Although there was no logical, the answer is "Yes". According to Luke Laborde, professor of food science at Penn State University, this phenomenon is called gustatory facial sweating. The chilli effect is the opposite of ice cream. Spicy foods make the body feel warm then gradually became cool. "Heat after eating spicy foods makes the body sweat. When the wind blows on the body, the body temperature to cool due to evaporation," said Swanson.

Spicy foods can also speed up the flow of blood to the skin so the skin is reddened. Increased blood flow in certain areas of the body resulting in rising temperatures. Once the skin is no longer red, you will feel cool. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SEPTI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 25042013]

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