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Originally Posted by Brutha  If you call it sound knowledge that eating less meat is healthy because Japanese are healty, you miss a lot of other explanations that could also be the reason for the fact that Japanese have a higher life expectency. Maybe they do more Qi Gong or they just have different genetics. |
As I had read in a few places, including The China Study, genetics can be ruled out when you have Japanese men in Hawaii while eating a Western-style diet as opposed to Japanese men in Japan who eat a more plant-based diet. If genetics played a significant role, then the situation between the two groups wouldn't be very different. Hawaiian Japanese men had higher incidences of heart disease and were obese as compared to their Japanese counterparts.
So, now we are left with Qi Gong or other explanations, but genetics is a pretty flimsy one. B-)