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Koreans' Kimchi Adulation, With a Side of Skepticism
One might call it the chicken soup of Korea.... Kimchi is a matter of great national pride, and much of the research has been government-funded....

Among the papers not to be found in the vast library of the kimchi museum is one published in June 2005 in the Beijing-based World Journal of Gastroenterology titled "Kimchi and Soybean Pastes Are Risk Factors of Gastric Cancer."

The researchers, all South Korean, report that kimchi and other spicy and fermented foods could be linked to the most common cancer among Koreans. Rates of gastric cancer among Koreans and Japanese are 10 times higher than in the United States.

"We found that if you were a very, very heavy eater of kimchi, you had a 50% higher risk of getting stomach cancer," said Kim Heon of the department of preventive medicine at Chungbuk National University and one of the authors.

"Koreans can't go anywhere without kimchi," said Byun Myung-woo....
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times (May 21, 2006)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kimchi21may21,0,1528389,full.story?coll=la-home-world

[ddeubel]

LIVE and risk a lot of things.............................THAT'S LIFE.

By the way, are you a life insurance salesman???????????

DD

[Hollywoodaction]

Japanese researchers have found that the Japanese diet of pickled vegetables, such as kimuchi, increases the odds of getting some forms of gastric cancer. They attribute this to the high concentration of salt used to produce the dishes. Koreans also have a diet of salted vegetables...and one of the highest rates of gastric cancer in the world.