Like kimchi? Chances are, if you eat it regularly, you’re less likely to be obese than those who don’t. Eating kimchi is associated with lower obesity rates, according to a new cross-sectional study published in BMJ Open.
Researchers from Chung-Ang University, Korea’s National Cancer Center, and the World Institute of Kimchi found that men who ate one to three servings of kimchi daily had a lower obesity prevalence than those who ate less than one serving. Men with the highest consumption rates of napa cabbage kimchi had 10 percent lower odds of obesity and abdominal obesity. Both men and women who ate more radish kimchi than average had an 8 percent to 11 percent reduced risk of abdominal obesity, respectively.
