Dropping excess weight is good. It's time to sniff your way slim. Switching up your fragrance can do more than make you smell delicious, it can also help you shed those extra pounds as you age. The results of a study published in the Journal of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery reveal that sniffing scents like apple and mint increased weight loss among study subjects, so seek out fragranced products, like tea tree shampoo or apple-inflected perfume, for maximum effect.
That fiery sensation you get when you bite into a hot pepper? That is the work of a compound known as capsaicin. Consuming capsaicin revs up your metabolism and is associated with greater fat-burning power. For example, rats on a high-fat diet who are given capsaicin have greater activity of enzymes that metabolize fats (Kawada, Hagihara, & Iwai, 1986). Capsaicin may even be able to regulate your body's longer-term control over metabolism, turning on and off certain genes that affect fat burning. In general, the hotter the pepper, the greater the amount of capsaicin it contains.
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