The incidence of gastric cancer in Korea ranks first.
According to official data, there are 36 people suffering from gastric cancer in every 654.38 million+population in South Korea, followed by Japan, Mongolia and China. Although there are only two places between China and South Korea, the incidence of gastric cancer in South Korea is 2-3 times that in China.
The reason for this phenomenon is not that Koreans have physical problems, but that they are closely related to their eating habits.
Friends who know a little about Korean culture know that kimchi is the staple food of every meal in Korea. Koreans seldom eat fresh vegetables, and most of the dinner tables are mainly pickled products. According to the data released by WHO, the per capita salt consumption in Korea is 5-6 times of the health standard.
So why does Korea eat so many pickles instead of fresh vegetables? In fact, I really don't blame them, because eating fresh vegetables in Korea is a luxury.
Because Korea has a small land area and many hills, there are few areas suitable for farming. In addition, South Korea has a relatively dense population, and the crops that can be produced by agricultural land simply cannot meet the normal needs of Korean residents. Therefore, the cultivated land in South Korea is mainly used to grow some crops needed for making daily staple food, and there is not much land for growing vegetables, which makes it difficult for South Korea's fruits and vegetables to meet the demand, and most of them are imported from abroad.
At the current level of rail transit, importing vegetables from abroad is not troublesome and the freight is not high, but for South Korea, it is not so easy to import fresh vegetables. Although South Korea is not an independent island country, the traffic situation facing South Korea is no different from that of an island country.
Because the north of South Korea is North Korea, and relations between the two Koreas have never been harmonious, North Korea will naturally not let South Korean trucks pass through North Korea, so South Korea has only two ways to import vegetables from China, either by air or by sea.
If you transport vegetables by plane, the price will be very expensive, and ordinary people simply can't afford it. Compared with shipping, it is really cheap, but the speed of shipping is really too slow.
It takes 15 hours at the earliest to transport fresh vegetables from China to Korea by sea. If the loading and unloading time of the dock and the transshipment time to be sent to major shopping malls are added, it will take at least 30 hours, and even fresh vegetables will lose their freshness. Generally speaking, after these vegetables are shipped to Korea, they will be bought by the people and made into kimchi, because only kimchi has the longest preservation time.
Because they can't afford or eat fresh vegetables, eating kimchi has become the main cooking method for ordinary people. However, kimchi needs a lot of salt, and a lot of nitrite will be produced in the process of pickling and fermentation. Proper intake of salt is good for health, but if it is excessive intake, it will increase the burden of metabolism.
Nitrite in kimchi is harmful to human body. It's okay to eat kimchi once in a while. Long-term consumption will naturally hurt the spleen and stomach.
It is also because of long-term consumption of kimchi that the incidence of gastric cancer in Koreans is very high.
Moreover, the diet is irregular and the way of eating is extremely unhealthy.
Although South Korea's economy is developed, its survival pressure is great, and the huge work pressure makes many young people forget to eat breakfast at all. These people will get into the habit of skipping breakfast for a long time and work hungry all morning.
Workload nature will accelerate energy consumption, and extreme hunger will lead to overeating at noon, which is not conducive to the normal peristalsis and digestion of the stomach. Sometimes I work overtime until late at night, and then I go straight to sleep after work. This situation will only increase the burden of gastrointestinal work, leading to an increase in the incidence of gastrointestinal diseases.
And South Korea and China belong to? Night stall culture? In rich countries, Koreans especially like to eat things like barbecues, and these barbecues will add a lot of spices such as salt during the baking process, and various dipping sauces will be added during the eating process. These dips contain a lot of salt and nitrite. In addition, Koreans especially like to drink some iced drinks when eating barbecue.
This cold, hot, sweet and salty food is mixed into the stomach, which increases the incidence of stomach diseases.
The cure rate of gastric cancer in Korea is also very high.
Although the incidence of gastric cancer in Korea is high, it is undeniable that the cure rate of gastric cancer in Korea is also relatively high. This is mainly because they know their own problems, so they attach great importance to this disease.
Therefore, the most important thing is the awareness of Korean people's physical examination.
Because Koreans know that the incidence of stomach diseases in their country is very high, many people will have regular physical examinations to ensure their health. The sooner stomach trouble is found, the easier it is to treat.
Everyone took the initiative to check, and patients with stomach diseases were found in time, which directly led to the higher prevalence of stomach diseases in Korea than in other countries.
Furthermore, because there are many patients with gastric diseases in Korea, there are enough patient samples for Korean hospitals to accumulate treatment experience.
If a country in South Korea has dozens of patients every year from beginning to end, then the treatment system of stomach diseases in South Korea is meaningless, but it is precisely because there are a large number of patients with stomach diseases and gastric cancer in South Korea that hospitals in South Korea treat stomach diseases. Home cooking? After a long time, you can naturally accumulate some treatment experience.
So it is not surprising that the cure rate in Korea is relatively high.
Finally, there is an external factor, which is the help of some medical technologies from European and American countries.
After the victory of World War II, South Korea is a standard capitalist country. In order to suppress North Korea, European and American countries helped South Korea develop to a certain extent, so South Korea came into contact with high-end medical means from Europe and America earlier than other Asian countries.
Therefore, South Korea's high-end medical strength is still relatively strong.