Korean Food Systems: Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy Aging

249 Pages·2022·21.37 MB·English

by  Dong-Hwa Shin, Kalidas Shetty

Korean Food Systems
The Republic of Korea (ROK) is projected by 2030 to have the
longest living population compared to any nation on earth. A girl
born in the ROK in 2030 will live up to 90.8 years on average. What
are the reasons for this improvement in longevity?
Among many insights for longevity among the people of the ROK is
the diverse Korean ethnic diet with roots in a traditional diet that has been
preserved for centuries. Korean Food Systems: Secrets of the K-Diet for
Healthy Aging provides an integrated and holistic approach towards the
understanding how food systems of the ROK and experiences of the last
60-plus years has been sustained by traditions and ecology integrated with
contemporary advances in technology and the economy.
Key Features:
• Discusses the rationale and basis of food systems, traditions of
healthy eating, and healthy aging in the Korean population and why
by 2030 they will be the longest living population on the planet.
• Reflects on the role of historical, cultural, and traditional food
and dietary concepts of Korea and how they have influenced
healthy eating habits, contributing to health and longevity.
• Discusses the relevance of the modern genetic concepts of nu-
trigenomics and epigenetics, metabolic concepts such as circu-
lation, and food concepts such as fermented and functional
foods in advancing healthy food concepts and longevity.
• Provides insights how a large population can advance an in-
tegrated holistic food-based approach to longevity and wellness.
As a collaboration between various outstanding authors, the insights from
this book can provide global examples to align similar approaches and
policies in other countries in different ecologies of planet earth.

Korean Food Systems
Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy
Aging
Edited by
Dong-Hwa Shin and Kalidas Shetty
Cover image: Cover photographs provided by Professor Yoon, Sook Ja.
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Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data
Names: Shin, Dong-Hwa, editor. | Shetty, Kalidas, editor.
Title: Korean food systems : secrets of the K-diet for healthy aging / edited by
Professor Emeritus Dong-Hwa Shin, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Chonbuk
National University, Republic of Korea and Professor Kalidas Shetty, PhD,
Professor of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, US.
Description: First edition. | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2023. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022008761 (print) | LCCN 2022008762 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032231129 (hbk) | ISBN 9781032231099 (pbk) | ISBN
9781003275732 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Food‐‐Korea‐‐History. | Diet‐‐Korea. |
Longevity‐‐Nutritional aspects‐‐Korea. | Koreans‐‐Nutrition. | Food
habits‐‐Korea‐‐History.
Classification: LCC TX360.K6 K65 2023 (print) | LCC TX360.K6
(ebook) | DDC 394.1/2095195‐‐dc23/eng/20220318
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022008761
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022008762
ISBN: 978-1-032-23112-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-23109-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-27573-2 (ebk)
DOI: 10.1201/9781003275732
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
PREFACE: PERSPECTIVES AND VISION OF THE BOOK ix
EDITORS xv
CONTRIBUTORS xix
INTRODUCTION: WISDOM AND ECOLOGY OF KOREAN FOOD SYSTEMS
IN THE MODERN WORLD: INSIGHTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON
ADVANCING DIVERSITY OF ETHNIC FOODS FOR HEALTH AND
WELLNESS FROM K-DIET 1
KALIDAS SHETTY
CHAPTER 1 KOREAN ETHNIC FOOD PROVIDES A NEW
PARADIGM FOR HEALTHY LONGEVITY 9
SANG CHUL PARK
CHAPTER 2 KOREAN LONG LIVING PEOPLE: WHAT AND HOW TO
EAT TO LIVE 23
MEE-SOOK LEE
CHAPTER 3 KOREANS SELECT FOOD ALIGNED AND SUITABLE
FOR THEIR CONSTITUTION 47
CHERL-HO LEE
V
VI CONTENTS
CHAPTER 4 THE ANSWER FOR A HEALTHY LIFE IS A KOREAN
TRADITIONAL DIET 65
DAE-YOUNG KWON
CHAPTER 5 KOREAN FERMENTED FOODS FOR HEALTHIER
LONGEVITY 107
DONG-HWA SHIN
CHAPTER 6 FOOD ALTERS GENES: UNDERSTANDING
NUTRIGENOMICS AND EPIGENETICS 147
KYONG-CHOL KIM
CHAPTER 7 GOOD BLOOD CIRCULATION IS VITAL TO YOUR
HEALTH 171
SOO-WAN CHAE
CHAPTER 8 HEALTH FUNCTIONAL FOOD MARKET IS THE
TREND 197
HYUN WOO KIM, SEA MI PARK, GYU HAN JO,
SUN MIN KIM, AND HYUN JIN PARK
INDEX 221
Acknowledgments
Kind acknowledgments to Professor Yoon, Sook Ja for providing the
cover photographs
VII

Preface: Perspectives and Vision of the
Book
With the advent of human civilization and organized community,
humans have always shown the innate desire to live longer and
healthier lives. This instinctive desire to live long continues in the
modern times from rural to urban living and lifestyles. Overall, the
longevity of human life has continued to increase, and life expectancy
has continued to grow with the dynamic history of eating, from
hunter and gatherer approaches to the changes in the social
environment with organization of communities and single-family
units. Though longevity has species-specific limits, when animal
studies are extended to humans then they show the possibility of
living longer than what is currently possible (Lee 2018).
The main factor in the extension of a healthy life is the result of
the combination of medical technology that enables the prevention of
infectious diseases and the treatment of diseases according to the
scientific advances. These advances include the supply of high-quality
food as the source of healthy nutrition and personal hygiene through
sanitation management. These developments will continue across the
world, but the question remains whether the human life span can be
extended forever. This is impossible to draw conclusions on right
now, based on current scientific advances and developments.
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