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Chinese cuisine has a lot of blazingly spicy dishes, like Maputou, and hot pot.

And of course, there's the ever-present chili oil.

Yes, I like spicy food myself.

Liu Qi, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Almost every day I eat spicy food.

That spicy tradition served as scientific inspiration for Chi.

He and colleagues performed a study which found that a daily dose of chilies might actually

be a boon to your health.

The researchers enrolled nearly half a million Chinese volunteers, aged 30 to 79.

They quizzed them on their affinity for fiery foods, and followed each study subject for an

average of seven years. During that time, more than 20,000 of the subjects died.

But after controlling for factors like smoking history and income, the scientists found that

the risk of death was 10% lower in those who ate spicy food a couple times a week, compared

with those who abstained.

And daily chili eaters, like Lou, had a 14% lower risk of dying.

That figure held true for both men and women, and yes, while it is a relatively modest effect,

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