Burn fat faster with hot peppers!

Traditional Thai recipes are loaded with hot peppers, everything from relatively mild cayenne peppers to super-spicy Thai peppers, all of which add lots of flavor and color to their dishes. Another benefit? The peppers’ fiery burn is hot enough to melt fat! “Capsaicin, the chemical behind pepper’s spicy taste, raises your metabolic rate by as much as 25%, helping you burn calories as if you were exercising,” confirms Susan Smith Jones, PH.D., author of The Healing Power of Nature Foods. Eating them also lowers levels of the hunger-stimulating hormone ghrelin, while raising levels of appetite-suppressing GLP-1!