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If you like eating food with Chilli pepper in it, you could be extending your life.

That鈥檚 the conclusion of a study of research that looked at the health records of over half a million people across China, Iran, Italy and the United States. Those who consumed chilli pepper reduced the risk of all-cause mortality by 25%.

But it is still unclear how much we should eat, and how often.

The senior author on this study, Dr Bo Xu, is a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic's Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

(Photo: Plate of chilli peppers. Credit: Getty Images)