The Health Benefits of Kimchi

Hi Everyone,

For today I have decided to provide you with some knowledge on the health benefits of Kimchi! As I mentioned in my introduction post, Kimchi is well known by many people to be a very healthy food. News magazines such as HEALTH named Kimchi the "World's Healthiest Food" and Men's Health listed Kimchi as one of the “top 5 healthiest foods on the planet”. Kimchi is so healthy in fact that multiple studies prove that it has so many different beneficial attributes. According to Organicfacts.org Kimchi not only helps prevent cancer but it also, promotes digestion, benefits ones cholesterol, helps prevent obesity and helps the immune system fight off viruses. These are only a few benefits among many others. If you would like to find out more about the benefits of Kimchi please feel free to visit Organic facts.org. Now you are probably wondering "What exactly is in Kimchi that makes it so healthy?" Well according to HEALTH magazine Kimchi is loaded with vitamins A, B, and C and it also has a “healthy bacteria” called lactobacilli within it which is usually found in fermented foods. The first video I provided below called Korea's Rural Development of Administration goes into much more information on the studies that prove the health benefits of Kimchi while the second video called Arirang TV: The Nutritional Secrets of Kimchi explains in more detail the nutritional ingredients inside of Kimchi. Please view these videos because they have very interesting perspectives on the health benefits of Kimchi. 

Korea's Rural Development of Administration (KRA)

Arirang TV :The Nutritional Secrets of Kimchi

Albany University Interviews on the Health Factors of Kimchi: 

I went around the University at Albany campus and asked a few students whether or not they knew that Kimchi was healthy and here is what they had to say (These students knew what Kimchi was already):

Joe, Accounting: "Kimchi is a vegetable so I would assume that it is healthy...but I think some types are healthier than others..like the ones that are not so spicy"
Kate, TESOL: "well I only ate it once but it felt healthy because it tasted nasty! and usually healthy food tastes nasty to me."
Jackie, Business: "No, I didn't think it could be that healthy for you because of the spice! Kind of like hot sauce."
Jihoon, Business: Yea, Kimchi is healthy that is why we eat it so often in Korea. My dad won't eat a meal without it actually. He needs to eat healthy food because he has diabetes"
Maggie, Public Health: "Yea I know that Kimchi is healthy. I read an article on Kimchi once and it talk a lot about how Kimchi could reduce your weight. It was an interesting article."
Nick, TESOL: Yea, I can't imagine how unhealthy cabbage would be...