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Incidently, the most common cancer for males in China is lung cancer (21%), followed by stomach cancer (19%). For females, stomach cancer is (12%).

Cancer kills about 7500 each day in China.

And according to WHO, China the hardest hit by global surge in cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643656/

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1422475/china-hardest...

http://www.wpro.who.int/china/mediacentre/releases/2015/2015...

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I live in China, and a lot of the food here is very honest vegetable dishes with an emphasis on freshness. People also eat a lot of fruit: it's largely a very good diet.

The highest stomach cancer incidence in the world is Korea (at almost double China's rate), followed by Mongolia (1.5x), then Japan (1.4x).

It seems that vinegar, chilli, salt, hard liquor and meat is not a recipe for longevity.

http://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-specific-c...

correct, China is not the top one for stomach cancer. however, it is still at #5 out of all the countries. gutter oil, imitation egg, walnut stuffed with cement, industrial salt sold as table salt, plastic rice, etc, certainly doesn't help

http://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-specific-c...

http://althealthworks.com/7943/top-10-toxic-fake-food-items-...

I believe the fake eggs are a myth as real eggs would be cheaper than anything else you can cook in ways similar to real eggs.

But it is definitely contested, as this quora posts show [1]. I am inclined to believe the idea that these are eggs from unhealthy chickens or stale or frozen eggs or combinations of that.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Are-the-fake-Chinese-eggs-a-true-story...

If you actually read the article, it says those myths are basically all bullshit.

And what about the sauces and condiments this produce is cooked and served with? That seems like a particularly ripe target for this sort of thing.

Most commonly garlic and salt.

That's a little higher than in the US where 1,500 people die each day, with 1/4 the number of people. Perhaps the US and China could cooperate on a project(s) to better treat cancer(s).

I live in Brooklyn's Chinatown and it seems a ton of people here smoke (especially men). If that's the same case back in China, it's not surprising especially because NYC has a lot of anti-smoking legislation.

Its no longer representative in fact. Tobacco usage within China has dropped radically over the last few years.

Smoking is the reason. I was very surprised to realize that in US, there were probably more people for weed than for cigarettes.

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