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And yet the Japanese have high life expectancy?

• champagnois 5y ago
  • 30002926 5y ago
    How do you know this?
    • champagnois 5y ago
      Chinese family. Have lived there and among chinese elite for most of my life.
      • fomine3 5y ago
        Not true in Japan. Everyone eat soy based foods like tofu without worrying.
• DoreenMichele 5y ago
  Not necessarily evidence that it isn't problematic for other people. The Japanese seem to be different in ways we are still trying to sort out. The prevalence of cigarette smoking among Japanese men has been consistently high compared with Western males over the past 30 years. However, during the same period, the incidence of and mortality rates for lung cancer have consistently been lower in Japan than in Western countries ('Japanese smoking paradox'). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12889681/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12889681/