Does spicy Korean food have ANY health benefits?
I'm Korean, so I eat spicy Korean food basically everyday. Does eating spicy Korean food, or Korean food in general, have any health benefits at all? I'm also a vegetarian, so all of the dishes I eat are meat and dairy free. *This is a serious question, so please don't leave any rude or useless remarks!
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it boots your serotonin levels, so it makes you happier
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I am a former chef and enjoy Korean food weekly here in Toronto Canada, and "Yes" all spicy foods no matter the cuisine have health benefits, with Korean food you have so many veggie options and there foods are lower in fat as they broil and stew more and use less oil. I absolutley love Kimchee, and I buy a quart a week at my Korean market, it is good for your blood, digestion, skin and has other healing properties too. Like other spicey foods you have to develope a tolerance, it is hard to leep into the ultra hot food, it is best to buy spices, pepper pastes and sauces and use them at home and every so often increase the amounts ever so slightly, and overtime your able to handle things that much better. I am a chili nut, and I eat a very closed vegetarian diet due to a medical condition and find to do this spicey foods and ingredients are essential, try it and you will see, when in Korean restaurants and you get the small salads and added veggies, try them all, alot of times they vary so you can see the levels of spcie/heat there is in them.
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Besides it tasting fabulous and in turn making you feel better? What more do you need?! I love spicy food, especially Asian...so yummy!!! Any type of vegetarian diet is going to be healthy, so I'd say you're ok!
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Kimchee is a fermented food that is supposed to have loads of beneficial pro-biotic bacteria. Also, supposedly, chile peppers help lower blood pressure.
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I believe that the world's cusines evolved to keep the people that eat them healthy. Kimchee is a wonderful way to preserve the vitamins of summer vegetables through the year. Rice and soy and sugar and eggs provide energy and basic protein which is easily rounded out by small amounts of more expensive meat protein. There is no reason to question the acquired wisdom of the way Koreans traditionally eat. However, any traditional diet was also based on a certain lifestyle and expectations of the amount of food consumed. Hard working peasants need more calories that sedient office workers. Also, it is not wise to pick and choose within the cusine. Not liking kimchee leaves a big hole in the nutrient profile of Korean food. Just like eating the rice and not the beans leaves a big hole in the Mexican diet. And not liking poi makes the Hawiian diet untenable. As we have grown richer, we eat more of the special, feast foods and less of the plant-based everyday foods. And as we migrate from the Chinese restaurant, to the Mexican restaurant, to Applebee's we pick and choose without regard to any particular cuisine. Hence, the problems of today's table
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