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The Japanese wants to have a word with you. Yes they have a high mortality rate in stomach cancer due to all the preserved and salty food but rice is probably n
by gaudat 4y ago
The Japanese wants to have a word with you. Yes they have a high mortality rate in stomach cancer due to all the preserved and salty food but rice is probably not very harmful in the grand picture.
Meanwhile North America with its family size portion of everything...
- civilized 4y agoNo developed Asian country needs a lecture on health and longevity best practices from any Anglosphere country.
- justinzollars 4y ago100%. The Western media loves to lecture other people. The lectures are becoming more irrelevant with the rise of the East.
- tomp 4y agoAre you sure about that? This 2019 article claims that Asian Americans (in several states) live longer than the Japanese (in Japan). https://180degreehealth.com/blue-zones-bullshit/ https://180degreehealth.com/blue-zones-bullshit/ (though I haven't checked the statistics myself)
- gaudat 4y agoThat can be the people with Asian roots bringing their eating traditions with them immigrating in the US. Like mostly cooking by themselves instead of eating out. Or frequency of snacking. Or having a different palate/diet than Anglos and other ethnicities.
- inpdx 4y agoHe has interesting ideas but then presents his alternate views, without a rigorous scientific approach, as settled. Worth investigating though.
- civilized 4y ago1. I bet Japanese in several prefectures of Japan outlive the general population of Japanese as well. 2. Populations with a lot of immigrants tend to have strange health and longevity statistics. See for example the Hispanic Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox
- hoseja 4y agoExcept for all the insane industrial and otherwise pollution, but sure.