Certain Korean diets have been found to be beneficial for obesity

civil: Eating three servings of kimchi (a Korean dish) a day can reduce people’s overall risk of diabetes, a new study suggests. Korean cuisine can help promote beneficial bacteria in the gut.

Kimchi dishes are made by salting and fermenting vegetables like cabbage and beets and adding vegetables like onion and garlic.

According to researchers, both cabbage and beets are low in calories and rich in vitamins, dietary fiber, and beneficial gut bacteria.

In a new study conducted recently, scientists tried to find out whether regular consumption of kimchi could be related to a reduction in the overall risk of stroke.

Researchers analyzed data from about 116,000 people in the study. These individuals participated in a long-term study of the larger Korean genome.

The researchers assessed the participants’ food intake in the past year using a 106-item questionnaire. It asked them how many times a day they ate these foods. These individuals had never, sometimes, and three times a day options to choose from.

Participants’ height, weight and waist were measured before the study. The measurements showed that about 36 percent of the male and 25 percent of the female participants suffered from depression.

The researchers found that people who ate kimchi less than once a day were more likely to gain weight, have a wider waistline, and develop obesity than those who ate kimchi five or more times a day.

But after controlling for other factors, the researchers found that eating three servings of kimchi per day was associated with an 11 percent reduction in stroke risk, compared with eating one or less kimchi per day.