Do you often feel hot or hot with the weather these days? Want to feel the consumption of cold food or drink to reduce it. But try the consumption of spicy foods, reportedly this food is more able to cope with heat than ice cream though.
It sounds controversial. Eat spicy food in hot weather. But the facts prove spicy food is more potent to soothe you. Cold foods or drinks do provide a cool effect, but the cooling effect is not lasting. Why so?
The human body has a thermostat embedded in the brain called the hypothalamus. Strictly keep your core temperature at 36.5 degrees Celsius. Even when you are in the Sahara or Antarctic Desert, your core temperature only goes up or down two to three degrees. This was revealed by Associate Professor Nigel Taylor of Wollongong University Department of Physiology Department.
When you drink cold drinks or eat ice cream, the hypothalamus feels a drastic decrease in your internal temperature. And since the job is to keep things at 36.5 degrees Celsius, the body temperature will rise, causing you to feel warmer.
Eating spicy food just the opposite. According to Dr Reuben Wong, a gastroenterologist from Gleneagles Hospital, the receptor in your mouth interprets the capsaicin component in chili as a chemical action that creates a burning sensation of heat.
It sounds controversial. Eat spicy food in hot weather. But the facts prove spicy food is more potent to soothe you. Cold foods or drinks do provide a cool effect, but the cooling effect is not lasting. Why so?
The human body has a thermostat embedded in the brain called the hypothalamus. Strictly keep your core temperature at 36.5 degrees Celsius. Even when you are in the Sahara or Antarctic Desert, your core temperature only goes up or down two to three degrees. This was revealed by Associate Professor Nigel Taylor of Wollongong University Department of Physiology Department.
When you drink cold drinks or eat ice cream, the hypothalamus feels a drastic decrease in your internal temperature. And since the job is to keep things at 36.5 degrees Celsius, the body temperature will rise, causing you to feel warmer.
Eating spicy food just the opposite. According to Dr Reuben Wong, a gastroenterologist from Gleneagles Hospital, the receptor in your mouth interprets the capsaicin component in chili as a chemical action that creates a burning sensation of heat.
