Salted fish is a common food that is 1 in the south of China. It is chewy (有嚼劲的) and adds a salty flavor to 2 dishes. But eating too much salted fish can give you cancer, according to a list of cancer-causing foods that 3 recently published by the China Food and Drug Administration.
Salted fish is produced 4 a large amount of salt, which later turns into nitrites (亚硝酸盐). When nitrites 5 our stomach, they turn into another kind of chemical that can cause cancer, Huang Yufang from the Cancer Center of Guangzhou Medical University told Xinhua News Agency.
So does this 6 we can't eat salted fish anymore? "People don't need to worry 7. It (cancer) has something to 8 how often you eat certain foods and how much of them you eat," Huang said. 9 you really like eating salted fish, you can eat a small amount once or twice a month. Meanwhile, you should also eat more fruit and vegetables that are 10 in vitamin C, as this can help to prevent the formation of nitrites.
In fact, there are many foods that are thought to cause cancer, such as pickles (咸菜), areca palm (槟榔), certain fried foods and 11 red meat, such as pork, lamb and beef.
12 these foods can possibly cause cancer, it doesn't mean a person will get cancer just from eating them, according to the World Health Organization. Cancer is caused by many 13 factors, such as one's genes (基因), environment, lifestyle and eating 14. If one has a balanced diet, one doesn't need to 15 cancer-causing foods completely, Fang Yu, a doctor from the Beijing Cancer Hospital, told People's Daily.
