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Remember those Tom & Jerry cartoon where Tom eats a hot pepper and melts through the ice? I do. If you don’t, you’re just not remembering hard enough. Start over and try again.
What if that could actually work, though? I mean, not heat you up enough to melt through ice, but increase your metabolism to the point where you were burning more calories than if you ate something less spicy. I had heard similar claims before, but couldn’t find proof anywhere (by anywhere I mean by Googling it). But I did find proof to contradict the theory.
According to Julie Upton, MS, RD,? eating spicy foods has “a very small effect” on your metabolism. She further states that “The amount of chili pepper and powder that you’d have to eat would cause you GI distress before you’d have a metabolic impact.”
So there goes the Tom & Jerry Pepper Diet. Live and learn.