In Hunan, betel nut is a snack, overtime chewing, driving a chew, friends come to play and then send two packs of betel nut, as a specialty to take home.
Betel nut chewers are happy, but the data from Hunan Province is worrying.
After counting the oral cancer data of five hospitals in Changsha, it was found that the number of patients in 2006 was only 401, but in 2016, it reached 2108, an increase of 5 times in ten years, and the data was amazing!
A Guangdong guy came to the hospital for help, he said that he usually likes to smoke, heard that betel nut and tobacco effect is better, so he began to chew betel nut, just like this for a year, three months ago he felt his throat tightened, like being choked by a pair of big hands, there are ulcers on the tongue, for a long time not to heal, more and more painful, sometimes the pain is so painful that the mouth can not be opened, into a cherry mouth.
After examination, the boy was diagnosed with oral cancer, and he needed to cut off the diseased tongue in half, then repair it with flaps in other parts, and finally rebuild the tongue. The guy listened to it and regretted it very much, if he hadn't chewed the betel nut in the first place, how good it would have been!
Long-term eating betel nut, is it really healthy?
In the eyes of many people, betel nut is a snack, there is nothing to eat two bites of people more spirit, and its packaging is also very similar to snacks, similar to the usual eating of crisp dates. Some shop owners personally went to war in order to increase sales, saying that they ate betel nuts with goji berries every day, which can supplement the kidneys.
Come and see what betel nut is all about
First of all, it is recognized as a first-class carcinogen, which cannot be covered up no matter how much modification. If you eat betel nut for a long time, you will face its "double attack".
First Physical Attack:
Betel nut is dry and hard, very difficult to chew, eat in the mouth like a rough piece of wood, the taste is still very choking, wrapping the betel nut with a delicate mouth is like grabbing a hedgehog with bare hands, it will soon be damaged, although the mucous membrane repair speed is very fast, but you can't help but chew every day, and finally it will harden and grow abnormally. In short, even if you are brass teeth, you can't chew betel nut frequently.
Second Magic Attack:
Betel nut is toxic, but also addictive, so that you eat more and more want to eat, be fascinated, into the body may also form carcinogens, resulting in healthy cell death, cancerous. The wound left by the physical attack gives it a place to play, unscrupulously damaging the mucosal tissue.
Long-term chewing of betel nut people teeth will wear, affecting normal eating, a mouth will hurt, can not eat hard objects, some teeth are exposed, eat spicy, hot can not stand, the pain is unbearable. If you still have the habit of smoking, it is equivalent to turning on the "accelerator", one step closer to disease and cancer.
In the end, some people have damaged tongues and can't eat normally, some people can't open their mouths and can only drink liquid food, see here, do you still feel that chewing betel nut health?
There may be people who will raise the bar, smoke every day and live to the age of eighty or ninety, carcinogens are not 100% will get cancer, this idea itself is wrong.
First of all, you only stand in your own perspective to see whether to get cancer, and the cancer rate is from the perspective of big data to calculate the probability, secondly, for individuals there is only a difference between 0 and 1, and "survivor bias" will make people imagine themselves as lucky, but in the face of cancer, there is no "luck" to say, when the carcinogen accumulates to a certain extent, or there are certain triggers, it may lead to cancer.
Finally, let's look at the data, or 5 hospitals in Changsha, 2016 data show that a total of 2108 people suffer from oral cancer, of which 1803 betel nut-induced cases, accounting for 85%, equivalent to 100 long-term chewing of betel nut people, there may be 85 people recruited, which is quite high probability.
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Back in 2006, the number of oral cancer patients was 401, and the number of betel nut-induced cases was 96, accounting for 24%. Did you find out? More people chew betel nuts, and the probability of oral cancer increases.
Occasionally eating less may not have any effect on the body, but it will make you addicted, and it will tempt you to enjoy it with tobacco and alcohol, if you are really confused by it and think that it is a "health snack", it is a big mistake. For oral health, stay away from it.
Resources:
[1] Men eat this "health snack" every day and almost get cancer after a year. World Wide Web.2021-11-02
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[4] "The betel nut chewed today, the blood vomited tomorrow", the boy chewing the betel nut was cut in half tongue. Southern Metropolis Daily.2021-08-13
[5] Areca nut plus goji berries Refreshing or healthy? It's a gimmick!. Upstream News.2019-01-17