6 reasons why you should include chili peppers in your diet

Chili pepper or chilli is a member of the nightshade family that has its origin in the Americas. This fiery spice not only adds heat to our food but has surprising health benefits too.

Good for heart: Vitamins A and C along with bioflavinoids strengthen blood vessels, making them elastic and better able to adjust to blood pressure fluctuations. It also lowers cholesterol, and to reduce the amount of fibrin in the blood.

Relieves pain and reduces inflammation: Capsaicin, which is the main component in chili pepper, inhibits Substance P, which is associated with inflammatory processes, and provides pain relief for migraine and sinus headaches. It also stimulates the release of endorphins that are natural pain killers.

Helps clear congestion: Chili helps to stimulate secretions that aid in opening your nasal passages. It also contains antibacterial properties that help fight chronic sinus infections.

Helps burn fat: Studies suggest that capsaicin can help speed up metabolism and reduce fat tissue, as well as curb overeating by taming appetite.

Fights cancer: According to researchers, capsaicin found in Chilis makes prostate cancer cells to kill themselves.

Lowers blood sugar levels: A study has shown that eating chillies can help control insulin levels after a meal. The amount of insulin needed to lower the body`s blood sugar level following a meal was reduced by a staggering 60%.

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Oh, bother! ‘This content is illegal’ – China bans beloved Winnie the Pooh (8 Pics)

Internet censorship is not new for the Chinese Government but the latest crackdown from Beijing is targeted at a certain chubby cartoon bear.

While he may be known around the world as the beloved children’s book character, Winnie the Pooh is off limits in China, according to The Guardian.

Searches for the AA Milne character appeared to be blocked on social networks in China, raising the question of exactly what could provoke the blacklisting of a harmless children’s book bear.

It seems Winnie the Pooh’s comparison to Chinese President Xi Jinping has rankled the highly sensitive in China’s ruling Communist party.

According to The Guardian:

Posts bearing the image and the Chinese characters for Winnie the Pooh were still permitted on the Weibo social media platform on Monday. But comments referencing “Little Bear Winnie” – Pooh’s Chinese name – turned up error messages saying the user could not proceed because “this content is illegal”.

Winnie the Pooh stickers have also been removed from WeChat’s official sticker gallery, but user-generated gifs of the bear are still available on the popular messaging app.

“Oh bother!”

Social media apparently began circulating photos back in 2013 comparing President Xi with former President Obama to Winnie the Pooh walking with Tigger.

Then in 2014, a picture of President Xi shaking hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe launched another comparison which made the rounds on social media.

The political analysis portal, Global Risk Insights, reported that a photo of President Xi standing up through a car sunroof was “China’s most censored photo” of the year in 2015.

The New York Times reported that the censorship did not appear to be consistent as users of the Twitter-like site, Weibo, were still able to write Pooh posts and upload images on Monday. However, error messages resulted when attempts were made to add comments on existing posts that included the term Winnie the Pooh.

The crackdown comes ahead of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party, set for the fall, as Xi attempts to consolidate power, the Guardian reported.

Apparently, he doesn’t want to leave any room for challenges to his authority, not even from a chubby bear.

Reactions from Twitter users ranged from outrage to humor and even sadness that the lovable Pooh could be censored.

Model arrested by Saudi Arabian religious police after being filmed wearing miniskirt and crop-top in public

 Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a young woman who posted video of herself in a mini-skirt and crop-top.

The woman, reportedly a model called Khulood, enraged the country's religious police after posting the clip on Snapchat of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir in the ultra-conservative province of Najd.

Saudi Arabia's state-run TV reported that police in the capital, Riyadh, arrested the woman for wearing "immodest clothes" and referred her case to the country's public prosecutor.

The footage sparked a heated debate on social media , with some calling for her arrest and others praising her "bravery".

In Saudi Arabia women are required to wear loose fitting, full-length robes known as "abayas" in public, as well as a headscarf.

n the video, posted over the weekend, Khulood is seen walking along an empty street in Ushayqir Heritage Village, about 96 miles north of the capital Riyadh.

As a furious debate broke out online, Journalist Khaled Zidan wrote: "The return of the Haia (religious police) here is a must."

While writer and philosopher, Wael al-Gassim, said he was "shocked to see those angry, scary tweets."

He added: "I thought she had bombed or killed somebody.

"The story turned out to be about her skirt, which they did not like."

Others noted that when US president Donald Trump's wife Melania, and daughter, Ivanka, visited the country in May they did not wear abayas or headscarves.

Fatima al-Issa wrote: "If she was a foreigner, they would sing about the beauty of her waist and the enchantment of her eyes... But because she is Saudi they are calling for her arrest."

The religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, said on Twitter that it had been made aware of the video and was in contact with the relevant authorities.

Father beat 3-year-old old daughter to death for failing math lesson and soiling her pants: police

Meridian police told the city court Monday that a failed math lesson and soiled pants led to the beating death of a 3-year-old child over the weekend.

Meridian Police Detective Kevin Boyd told the court that Joshua A. Salovich, 25, of Davidson Road, Meridian, said, "It was all his fault," following the death of his 3-year-old daughter, Bailey Salovich.

On Friday afternoon, a local hospital notified law enforcement of Bailey's suspicious injuries and police interviewed both Salovich and Bailey's mother, Boyd said.

Bailey was flown to Jackson for treatment but she died by Saturday evening. Her cause of death has not been determined but the local hospital told police that the toddler suffered brain bleeding, a possibly detached retina and her lungs were filled with blood.

Bailey had a swollen, red abdomen, bruises and welts on her legs, lacerations on her buttocks, U-shaped marks on her legs and buttocks as well as a head wound, Boyd said.

Boyd said, according to Salovich, he was teaching Bailey her numbers.

"She apparently did not want to participate and get the correct numbers," Boyd said. "He said he would pop her with his hands on her butt and legs when she got a wrong answer... (he said he) backhanded her several times in the stomach because she kept getting it wrong."

According to testimony, Salovich told Boyd and Detective Thomas Abate that Bailey soiled herself and, after Salovich removed her clothing, she soiled herself again.

According to Salovich, he grabbed a lash – a rod of bamboo – and hit Bailey until the lash broke. Then he grabbed a heavy-duty phone charging cord, according to Boyd.

Boyd said the detectives asked Salovich how hard he had hit Bailey with the last and cord on a 1-to-10 scale.

"And he said, '10,' with no hesitation," Boyd said.

When he learned about Bailey's death, Boyd said Salovich "got upset. What he stated was, 'I killed my child. I killed my child.' "

According to Abate's reading of Salovich's statement, when they questioned Salovich about the discipline and learning numbers he said, "The streets are hard... for her to survive she has to be hard, too."

The court charged Salovich, of Davidson Road, with capital murder and denied bond.

Bailey's mother, who cried with family through most of the preliminary hearing, collapsed after the hearing and was taken to a local hospital by Metro Ambulance.

Police Chief Benny Dubose said after the hearing that this was the first time law enforcement had encountered Salovich or Bailey.

"I know that there are individuals who may lose their temper or become frustrated," Dubose said. "But that is no excuse, in my opinion, for this sort of action against a child."