A little Chinese girl, right, eats instant noodles at Hefei Railway Station while waiting for a train to travel home with her mother on Jan. 19. (Photo/Xinhua)
A Chinese woman surnamed Li has been diagnosed with gastric cancer after eating instant noodles every day for a month. As a college student from Heilongjiang, Li started eating instant noodles regularly to save money for her family. While preparing for her graduate school examine, Li ate nothing but instant noodles for a month only to save time. Even though she reportedly felt sick, she waited to see the doctor. When she did seek medical treatment, she was diagnosed with terminal.
Zou Xiaoming, head of the surgical department at Harbin Medical University said that 70 years ago, only 1.7% of people under 30 years got gastric cancer, but now the number is 3.3%. He attributes the rise in young people getting cancer to poor eating choices and bad lifestyle habits, including smoking and drinking alcohol, soda, coffee or tea.
via WCT
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