Ledtim wondered:

Is heart attack more common in Korea than the US (where fatties roam free)? Not being snide, really asking, I’m not sure.

I am disappointed to tell my fellow Americans that we are no longer the world’s fattest nation. That honor now belongs to Saudi Arabia, where 36.9% of the adult population is overweight and 35.6% obese, compared to 34.1% and 32.2% respectively for the US. Those stats put us in third place behind Panama with 32.7%
and 34.7%.

ttp://www.iotf.org/database/GlobalPrevalenceofAdultObesityFeb07.mht

As for heart attack rates, Americans have more heart attacks while Koreans and Japanese have more strokes. Both are forms of cardiovascular disease and have similar and different risk factors. We have more heart attacks mostly due to our diet high in refined foods and low in fish and fresh produce. Koreans and Japanese have more strokes because of heavy consumption of salted and pickled foods. Overall, CVD mortality rates are higher for North Americans than for Japanese or Koreans. The gap is wider between women than between men due to differences in smoking rates.

ttp://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1173881029846InternationDeathRates_2007.pdf

I lopped off the “h” at the beginning of the links to keep this post out of the spam trap.

Less fat, Less taste for 보쌈/족발. And Mighty SOJU will bust all fats, no?

Tip: If you want less fat on yours, at 놀부보쌈 you can always ask: “비개없이주세요,” and they’ll serve you the leaner version sans fat.

Believe me, the difference between the two is like night and day (and much healthier too).

Heart attacks in Korea probably has something to do with stress and the fact that S. Korea has the most work hours in all of OECD.

Well, I guess that’s yet another way to bring Japan into a thread.

I heard that that came about because of the Japanese wooden clogs compared with the cloven hooves of pigs.

Whatever. Anyway, I do like both bossam (because it’s steamed pork) and chokpal (because it’s roasted pork), especially on a Friday night with cider or beer and lots of nice company. Now I’m hungry!

Marmots are not marsupials.