• Question: Is hot food bad for you?

    Asked by to Lewis on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lewis Dean answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Do you mean warm food or spicy food? In both cases, I’d say no.

      For warm food – there are lots of myths about raw food diets being better for you. However, humans have been eating cooked food for thousands of years and our guts are suited to eating a nice mix of food.

      As for spicy food – I am sure if you went out and ate the hottest chilli pepper in the world, it wouldn’t do your guts much good, however, the spicy things that humans eat aren’t that hot. And what would the world be like without a delicious curry and a yummy burrito.

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