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Old 11-05-2008, 05:52 AM
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Default Let me clarify a bit...

I found that spicy foods allow me to eat more carbs than normally allowed... and still loose weight on this diet.

For instance, I love hot wings. Well, there's a great wing joint called Buffalo Wild Wings and they've got about a dozen different sauces. Two of my favorites are loaded with sugar... the Terriaki and the Thai. However, I can eat as much of them as I want. If you read the nutritional info on the sauce bottles (they sell them for carryout), you'll see they are loaded with carbs. Yet they don't screw my levels of Ketosis... in fact, they seem to help. Now I don't just eat these... I also throw in "Spicy Garlic" and "Hot".

The compound that makes spicy food "hot" is called Capsaicin. Here's one of the many articles to be found that support what I'm talking about:

Effects of Capsaicin on Lipid Metabolism in Rats Fed a High Fat Diet1
Teruo Kawada, Koh-Ichiro Hagihara and Kazuo Iwai Laboratory of Nutritional Chemistry, Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan


Effects of capsaicin, a pungent principle of hot red pepper, were studied in experiments using male rats fed a diet containing 30% lard. Capsaicin was supplemented at 0.014% of the diet. The level of serum triglyceride was lower when capsaicin was present in the diet than when it was not. Levels of serum cholesterol and pre-ß-lipoprotein were not affected by the supplementation of capsaicin. The perirenal adipose tissue weight was lower when capsaicin was present in the diet than when it was not. Hepatic enzyme activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and adipose lipoprotein lipase were lower in rats fed the 30% lard diet than in those fed a nonpurified diet. Activities of these two enzymes were higher when capsaicin was added to the diet than when it was not. Hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase, ß-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, and adipose hormone-sensitive lipase activities were not affected by capsaicin feeding. Lipid absorption was not affected by the supplementation of capsaicin. The perirenal adipose tissue weight and serum triglyceride were decreased as the level of capsaicin in the diet increased up to 0.021%. These results suggest that capsaicin stimulates lipid mobilization from adipose tissue and lowers the perirenal adipose tissue weight and serum triglyceride concentration in lard-fed rats.
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