Should more people be encouraged to eat chillli?

A recent BMJ article that purports that intake of higher amounts of spices are associated with decreased mortality has grabbed some attention- http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3942 After multivariate adjustment, spicy food consumption was inversely associated with the risks of death due to ischemic heart diseases-which is remarkable. While it suffers from  limitations of measurement error, possible bias, confounding, and reverse causality, which are common problems in epidemiology, the efforts of the authors to minimise some of these limitations are notable. As the linked editorial notes- http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4141 'Should people eat spicy food? It is too early to say, but the debate and the research interest are certainly hotting up.'
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