Reply #11: People, this is not just because of what they eat. [View All]

[Pillowbiter]

There are a number of other factors. Firstly being all medical care is free. Pre-emptive care is encouraged to avoid costly advanced stages of diseases, which also tend to be fatal.

You have a 10 times greater chance of dying from suicide in Japan than from murder.

What's also strange, is that the typical Japanese smokes like a factory, yet still they don't have as high a cancer rate as the rest of the world. Advanced treatment care may be one factor, but it may be that they aren't exposed to other environmental hazards that cause cancer in the US.

PB