I live in China, and a lot of the food here is very honest vegetable dishes with an emphasis on freshness. People also eat a lot of fruit: it's largely a very good diet.

The highest stomach cancer incidence in the world is Korea (at almost double China's rate), followed by Mongolia (1.5x), then Japan (1.4x).

It seems that vinegar, chilli, salt, hard liquor and meat is not a recipe for longevity.

http://www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-specific-c...