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Eat chillies to rev your metabolism
Eat chillies to rev your metabolism
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Forget those pricey diet pills, this simple and inexpensive food may turbocharge your weight loss.

Chillies not only liven up a meal, but some studies show that very spicy foods can temporarily increase your metabolism, or the rate at which you burn kilojoules.

Some enticing uses for hot chillies: Spice up your morning omelette with minced jalapeño, or fire up some beef stew with half a diced banana pepper.