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Results of the analysis of 50,000 middle and high school students… “We must limit young people’s vision of mukbang and review prevention measures from the point of view of addiction.”
“Watching eating and drinking shows is bad for your health… Risk of obesity in teens increases by 22%.”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Gil-won = Nowadays, social media (SNS) and TV are full of food shows called “Mukbang” and drinking shows called “Sulbang”.
Mukbang is considered a new culture that began in Korea in the early 2000s. At the time, some young people who had to eat alone interacted online through other people’s mukbangs, and eating became a social activity rather than a simple activity. Now, more than 20 years later, mukbangs appear to be expanding their reach by spreading further into “cooking rooms” and “drinking rooms” that specialize in cooking.
However, it is also true that there are major concerns that watching mukbangs could lead to bad eating habits or health problems.
A representative example is that videos showing excessive consumption of nutrient-free or calorie-rich food can lead viewers to overeat, which can lead to obesity or eating disorders.
Indeed, a recent national study confirmed this concern.
In the latest issue of the international academic journal ‘Nutrition journal’, the research team from the Department of Preventive Medicine of Yonsei University College of Medicine (Eun-cheol Park and Jin-hyeon Kim) reported that 50,453 middle and high school students ( 20,000 men) from over 800 Korean schools participated in the Korean Youth Risk Behavior Survey (2022). As a result of an analysis of 5,749 people (24,704 women), it was found that watching mukbang increases the risk of obesity.
The research team divided the body mass index (BMI) of the students participating in the study into four groups: underweight, normal, overweight and obese, and analyzed how often they watched mukbang in the past 12 months.
As a result, it was found that 63.9% of male students and 79.2% of female students watched mukbang.
Male students watching mukbangs were significantly more overweight (11.2%) and obese (16.7%) than underweight (6.9%), while female students were on the order of underweight (9.5%), obese (9.2%) and overweight (8.0%). ). It wasn’t as big as the male student.
The research team estimated that the risk of becoming obese among male students who watched mukbangs more than once a week was 22 percent higher than that of male students who didn’t watch them at all.
Specifically, male students who exhibited eating habits such as smoking, drinking, frequently consuming fast food and sugary drinks in addition to watching mukbangs were more likely to be obese.
Under the same conditions, the risk of obesity for female students was 0.9%, and no such large correlation was observed as for male students.
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The research team selected “imitation” as the representative mechanism through which watching mukbangs leads to obesity.
Watching mukbang influencer videos increases the risk of becoming obese by eating quickly, eating a lot, snacking, late-night snacking, and stimulating eating habits, but will decrease participation in other activities such as exercise and social interaction.
Furthermore, watching mukbang affects the biochemical mechanisms of the body, stimulating the appetite and increases the secretion of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, which increases food intake, which has been indicated as a factor leading to obesity.
Professor Park Eun-cheol said, “There is a survey that found that 38.6% of students who watched mukbangs were influenced by their eating habits.” students who said they had not been affected in this way “were much more likely to become obese.”
Therefore, the research team emphasizes that it is necessary to consider regulations such as limiting the time and content of young people watching mukbangs or providing specialized nutrition education for mukbangs.
In the case of nutrition education, it can help block the connection between watching mukbangs and drinking shows and bad eating habits by informing children that overeating and consuming a lot of spicy food can cause health problems.
Additionally, from a mental health perspective, some argue that watching mukbangs should be approached from an addiction perspective.
Lee Hae-guk, president of the Korean Society of Addiction Psychiatry (professor at Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital), said: “Many people who watch popular mukbangs or drinking clubs are prone to the temptation of imitation because of their natural nature. However, these shows do not allow people to eat provocative food or eat spicy food that is implicitly funny,” he stressed.
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