eating appetizers that are spicy and help you lose weight.  Netherlands researchers have discovered that by adding hot peppers to your diet the peppers might help you to eat less.  During a study of 12 men that ate a mere 0.9 g of ground chili peppers in pill form or mixed in with a tomato beverage this helped to reduce food intake by as much as 10%.  In fact, the liquid mixture 16% decrease in food intake among participants.  The subjects who started with the peppers, chose less calorie dense foods than those who didn’t start with peppers.  They have been other studies that have shown eating a spicy meal can fire up a person’s metabolism by as much as 25%, and keep the metabolism hyped up for as many as three hours afterward.