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> But I really wouldn’t say that these populations are particularly healthier How would you be able to tell?

• noir_lord 9y ago
  By sampling them against other cultures, the same way we know Japanese people have lower rates of heart disease than western European/Americans.
  • ng12 9y ago
    That's not a useful avenue -- you have no control group. We can't compare people from India who eat a lot of curry to people from the US who don't: there are a million differences in diet, lifestyle, genetics, and environment that make it impossible to draw a conclusion about how it affects memory. Your example is a good one actually: we know Japanese men are less prone to heart disease, but we don't conclusively know why. We can guess it's related to certain factors, e.g. fish consumption, but we can't know just by comparing the two cultures.
  • dahidahi1 9y ago
    Japan has a very close relationship to Vedic sciences. This has been established since ancient times. Look at their gods for example, almost all are 1:1 Vedic/Hindu gods - Ganesh, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kuber, Shiva, Yama etc.