benefits of spicy foods - to cure Alzheimer on where to eat - by Mike

Benefits Of Spicy Foods

Benefits of spicy foods are potentially enormous as spicy food products make their way into every restaurant and grocery store at a furious pace. Spicy foods are thought to cure everything from stomach ulcers and impotence to Alzheimer's now. Boomers, those aging hipsters born in between 1946 and 1964, have an insatiable appetite for every kind of food product that is spicy, including chocolates, peanuts, jerky and chicken.

From Whole Foods to Albertson's, every grocery store is now loaded with spicy products. Restaurants like Fridays offers spicy dishes named Wicked Wings, while over at McDonalds you can now buy Chipotle BBQ Snack Wraps. Spicy Guacamole Pringles line the shelves at most grocery chains. Spices, hot sauces and eye-watering concoctions are now found at all points.

Chocolates with cayenne pepper are the latest trend; I know I buy them from "Vosges". They come as mid-size candy bars with large size price tags - $7. At that price I nibble them away. But that is ok, since they are really spicy hot; they contain ingredients like wasabi, ginger and cayenne. There is even a chocolate bar at Vosges in "Caesars's Forum Shops". You can sit down and enjoy your spicy chocolates like a fine glass of wine.

Does anyone know why everything is so hot? Seriously, our lives are being invaded by these sinus-clearing, spicy foods. Some say it's our previously bland diet being invaded by immigrants taste for spicier food. Others think its cayenne and chili pushing their trendy way into the limelight. Food researchers and marketers think they have another idea.

It's the Boomers they say that are driving the market for spicy foods. Boomers, in their quest to stay young and fit, want their spicy foods to have the same effect when they were younger. But as we age, our taste buds need more stimulus to do what they did before. So the marketplace has been moving toward bolder and more flavorful foods. The marketplace is responding because there are 80 million Boomers, and they control more wealth than any group on earth.

This is good, because I love spicy food. Vegas has plenty of spicy restaurants where you can get all heated up. Take a look at our best spicy restaurants page.

More and more health benefits are being derived from the ingredients in spices than ever before. Studies are being conducted in Thailand on capsaicin. As capsaicin is eaten in large quantities it is thought to lower blood clotting. Capsaicin is also known to lower triglycerides in the blood, which could be good for heart disease in America. In India they are studying the effects of turmeric in their diet, and the fact: India citizens have 75% less Alzheimer's than Americans. See our page on "health benefits of spicy foods" for more information on the Benefits of spicy foods.