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[L&MaC's]

[Caffeinated]

I've found bugs and caterpillars in the kimchi made by moms at my school. This is also hands-down the worst kimchi I've had with a taste diesel-soaked vegetables.

Luckily there's a restaurant nearby which serves tasty kimchi which restores my faith in the stuff.

[Kimchifart]

[Kimchifart]

[PatrickGHBusan]

OK Doctor....

When is your next conference on nutrition and the links certain foods have to diseases like cancer?

Oh in related news, water is wet and eating red meat 3 times per day will negate tany benefits that food may provide.

[KimchiExplosion]

[Menino80]

i could never eat the stuff plain, but throw it in some soup and voila! good soup

[chungbukdo]

[jvalmer]

All this talk about salt, there is some contradictory evidence about salt's effect on health.

"Only one controlled study has been conducted of hypertensive patients on a low-sodium diet. Its results, involving some 3,000 patients in the 1990s, showed the opposite of what most expected: The more sodium the patients consumed, the less likely they were to suffer from heart attacks. The 25% of male patients who consumed the least sodium experienced more than four times as many heart attacks as the 25% of male patients who consumed the most sodium (women did not show a statistically significant relationship)."

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/05/01/lawrence-solomon-shake-that-salt.aspx#ixzz1CjKalWV9

"The Japanese have one of the world�s highest levels of salt consumption and are also the most long-lived people on Earth, with the possible exception of Jews, whose kosher salt-laced foods rival those of the Japanese. In fact, the societies that consume the most salt tend to enjoy the longest life spans, and societal well-being throughout history has been tied to the availability of salt."

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/04/23/lawrence-solomon-savour-the-salt.aspx#ixzz1CjKOCOdw

"Ethnic differences in hypertension rates have been well documented for many years in the United States. But in Canada, this health issue wasn�t studied until last year when the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario commissioned a survey that found blacks and South Asians (Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis) are three times more likely to have high blood pressure compared with the general population. They are also likely to develop it at a younger age.

One third of blacks and South Asians have high blood pressure, compared with about 21 per cent of the general population, and about 19 per cent of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans)."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/special-reports/hard-to-shake/hunting-for-the-salt-gene/article1191288/

[brauggi]

Isn't the ratio of sodium to potassium intake more important than the total amount of either, given a proportionate amount of water?

That's a question, by the way. I actually don't know for sure.

i do know, however, that sodium tends to get all the press while potassium hangs out quietly and abundantly in fruits and vegetables.

[chungbukdo]

I wouldn't worry too much about hypertension from salt. It's moreso the chronic low grade net metabolic acidosis from getting sodium to potassium ratios out of whack. Evolutionarily, we ate a lot more potassium and magnesium in relation to sodium. Ie we ate fruits vegetables fish and meat including organ meats, not kimchi and fries.

I strive to parallel the evolutionary model as much as possible. That means eating a lot of vegetables and animal foods rather than grains and processed foods, and I don't stress myself out if my vegetables happen to be salted from time to time. For some people, just getting some vegetables is a good start. Consider what you're replacing by filling up on kimchi. If its fries or bread, I recommend you eat another bowl of kimchi. But don't replace fresh carrots and grass fed beef liver with kimchi. See what I mean?

[MollyBloom]

[Menino80]