"DPM" wrote in
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Stomach cancer is high in many Asian countries. Japan has a very, very
high rate. In my opinion due to a sky high consumption of sodium (and
possibly, high consumptions of raw fish and the heavy metals therein).
I would think nicotine, ethanol and all that salt would dis-ease
anything in Japan with or without tea.

I read years ago that the high stomach cancer rate in Japan was linked
to their use of talc for polishing rice; apparently talc affects the
body much like asbestos.

Has this been disproven?

Now I thought that in China, stir-fried food was the culprit in the high
rate of stomach cancer. BTW, I don't think any method of cooking
affects the heavy metals that fish pick up from the polluted oceans,
does it? It's just something that all sea-food eaters (inculding most
fish) have to suffer...

Ozzy