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What can be both red or green, round or sharp, big or small, and more importantly loved or hated by someone? Yes, the answer is chilies (辣椒).
Many of us in China enjoy adding chilies to our food, 1. did you know that this spicy (辣的) vegetable could also be dangerous? A 34?year?old man 2. (recent) ended up in hospital after eating a Carolina Reaper, the spiciest chili people 3. (know) so far. After taking just a single bite of one, the man had serious headaches in the following days, reported BBC News.
In fact, eating spicy food causes stomachache and headache. But if chilies are 4. (harm), why do people like to eat this vegetable? So 5. makes people love chilies so much? The human body 6. (influence) by natural chemicals that produce “a sense of happiness”, noted BBC News.
And chilies do good to people 7. another way. Scientists find that people who eat spicy food once or 8.(two) a week live longer than those who eat it less than once a week. This 9. (encourage) people to eat more spicy food to improve health and bring less health risk at 10. early age. So, don’t worry if you love spicy food. It seems that chilies are actually good for us.