wrote:
> Today's news:
>
> "Half of world's stomach cancer victims in China
>
> BEIJING (Reuters) - China accounts for about half of the global annual
> death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and
> smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua
> news agency said.

Pickled foods are bad for you? Why is that?

--
Dan

Maybe because half of the world's population of humans live in China?

Who are you -- Rush Limbaugh?



wrote:
> Today's news:
>
>
>
>
>
> "Half of world's stomach cancer victims in China
>
>
>
> BEIJING (Reuters) - China accounts for about half of the global annual
> death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and
> smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua
> news agency said.
>
> ADVERTISEMENT
>
> The disease kills about 300,000 people in China a year and there are
> 400,000 new cases reported annually, Xinhua said in a report seen on
> Wednesday.
>
> Only lung and liver cancer kill more people in China, it quoted Jin
> Maolin, a doctor at Peking University, as saying..."
>
>
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061206/hl_nm/china_dc_1
>

In article >, says...
> Maybe because half of the world's population of humans live in China?
>
>

Half?! Try 20%.

--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths pages at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

Howard Johnson wrote:
> wrote:
> > Today's news:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Half of world's stomach cancer victims in China

> Maybe because half of the world's population of humans live in China?

Where did you get that idea? The world's population is about 6.5
billion, China's about 1.3. So less than 1/4.




Brian

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RichAsianKid wrote:
> A few random thoughts here.

...

Why this screed? Did someone ask?

Jerry
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