A further interesting post on the Eat This Not That site is a post on 10 Ways to Eat Healthily at a Thai Restaurant. Click on the link for the full article but the section that caught my eye was the benefits of eating 'pet mak' meals. 
It appears that if you can stand the heat, tell the chef to turn it up. That burn on your tongue comes from a class of pepper-based phytochemicals called capsaicins, which have been shown to clear congestion, lower cholesterol, and boost metabolism to reduce body fat. Taiwanese researchers even found that exposing developing fat cells to capsaicins caused them to die before they matured. And hey, who says you can't break a little sweat at the dinner table?
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