[CH] Chilli and performance

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I was looking at some old chilli posts and saaw this  might berelevant to
the recent discussion
>From Australian Doctot 18 July 1997
Athletes who eat chillies before excercise may burn carbohydrates
more efficiently and have a performance advantage over those who do
not according to a study presented to the annual meeting of the
American College of Sports Medicine in Denver .
The study found a potential benefit for athletes who ate chillie
peppers before excercise .
Capsaicin , the active ingredient in chillies , was found to increase
an athletes ability to burn carbohydrates more efficiently .
Korean and Japanese university researchers coooperated on the
experiment .
Eight experienced middle and long distance male runners were fed a
standard meal the night before riding an excercise bike .
The next morning they ate a breakfast that included 10g of dried
hot red pepper flakes , about 1.5 times more than a typical Korean
consumed daily .
After breakfast the mens blood was tested at 30 minute intervals for
2.5 hours .
The subjects then rode the bikes at moderate intensity for one hour
with blood sampled every 10 minutes .
The same 8 men formed a control group by cycling for the same hour
before and after the test ride , consuming the same meals without the
pepper flakes .
The scientists discovered that carbohydrates were more readily oxidised
and used by the muscles during the ride after the pepper breakfast .
Furthermore ,the athletes were burning carbohydrates more rapidly and
effectively in the 2.5 hours after the meal and before the ride .
Sports nutritionists were adopting a wait and see attitude about the
effects of Capsaicin .
                       ---AAP
HELL WE ALL KNEW THAT !! Give the athletes a couple of Habs and they
will burn carbohydrates quicker , especially if you make them ride
before they can cool their palates

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