A journey to explore the health properties of traditional Korean diet: a commentary

Journal of Ethnic Foods

Review Article

Sang-Woon Choi¹ 

[1] Chaum Life Center, CHA University School of Medicine, 442, Dosan-Daero, Gangnam-gu, 06062, Seoul, Korea;CHA Bio Complex, CHA University, 13488, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea;Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA;

关键词: Korean diet;    Carbohydrate metabolism;    Lipid metabolism;    Metabolomics;    Urine organic acid;    Inflammation;    MicroRNA;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42779-023-00172-9

 received in 2022-12-30, accepted in 2023-03-20,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Modern food consumption in Korea has been modified to the Western style in parallel with the rapid globalization and economic growth, which might be a cause of skyrocketing increase of cardiometabolic disorders such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, coronary artery disease, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This is not a Korea-specific phenomenon but also a worldwide common public health problem. A plausible mechanism underlying the unhealthy changes could be genetics, especially metabolic genes that cannot adequately respond to the fast dietary changes and are unable to deal with the high intake of animal fat and calorie. If this is true, then the following questions are raised: (1) do we need to go back to the traditional K-diet (K-diet) to reduce the development of these unhealthy cardiometabolic disorders?, (2) if so, what could be the underlying mechanism by which K-diet may convey those health effects?, and (3) if the K-diet is not sufficient enough to solve the current problem, how can we modify the K-diet to fit our purposes?

【 授权许可】

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