Talk:Spicy Chili/@comment-68.59.233.111-20150612200903

"In general, hot, spicy foods are stimulants. They stimulate the circulation and raise body temperature. If you are living in a hot climate, the increase in body temperature can make you feel cooler by diminishing the difference between you and the surrounding air and by inducing sweating, which cools the body when the perspiration evaporates."

This is why spicy hot foods seem to be more popular in hot climates around the equator (Mexico, India, South Asia, etc) and probably why on the flip side british food has always been so bland and disgusting... ;)