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[intergalactic]

Yeah! Let's have a pregnant women's lunch!
Last weekend in May?

[Corporal]

[peppergirl]

[flutieflakes]

ajuma,

korean medicine at its best...............

friend of mine's father in early stages of stomach cancer, doctor tells him to eat plenty of kimchi (no joke) because of course it cures everything.............DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!............one of the leading causes of stomach cancer is eating spiced, fermented, pickled food which kimchi is............good you say?????????............perhaps a little misleading and biased in their beliefs.............

[ajuma]

Where did you find the information that spicy foods cause stomach cancer? I've checked about 12 sites and virtually all of them say either "no" or "the jury is still out."

[flutieflakes]

Researchers have learned that some people are more likely than others to develop stomach cancer. The disease is found most often in people over age 55. It affects men twice as often as women and is more common in black people than in white people. Also, stomach cancer is more common in some parts of the world, such as Japan, Korea, parts of Eastern Europe, and Latin America, than in the United States. People in these areas eat many foods that are preserved by drying, smoking, salting, or pickling. Scientists believe that eating foods preserved in these ways may play a role in the development of stomach cancer. On the other hand, fresh foods (especially fresh fruits and vegetables and properly frozen or refrigerated fresh foods) may protect against this disease.

from medicinenet.com

hence the word preservede and pickled......sure the jury may still be out, but wouldn't some prevention be advised especially in areas such as korea and latin america where much food is eaten this way??????

[peppergirl]

[sonofthedarkstranger]

[ajuma]

Flutieflakes, I was taking issue with your statement about spicy food being one of the LEADING causes of stomach cancer, NOT the issue of whether the doctor should have encouraged him to eat it. NO website (that I have found anyway) says that it is a LEADING cause.

[Corporal]

[peppergirl]

[flutieflakes]

look again ajuma........its all over the place............these are the same quacks who go on the news and tell you that yes, you will die if you leave the fan on all night.............give me a break

[Mosley]

kimchi solves all of the world's problems....

[phaedrus]

[sonofthedarkstranger]

Corp,

OK, I thought I remembered you saying once that the doctor or nurse said "no epidurals in Korea," but then ended up letting you have one. I guess my memory is inaccurate or I misunderstood.

Peppergirl,

note that I was wrong. Evidently they do give epidurals in Korea.