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Significant Obsevations Average life expectancy in Japan is 84 years for women and 77 years for men.The average American woman lives to 79; the average man lives to 73. One of the keys to the longevity of the Japanese is their consumption of soy foods which are high in isoflavones such as genistein, daidzein, and saponins. Some differences between Ameriacans and the Japanese. 1. Japanese people have the longest life span of any nationality. 2. The Japanese have much lower rates of colon and lung cancer than Americans. 3. Japan has the lowest rate of death from heart disease for men in the world, and the second lowest for women. 4. American women are four times more likely to die from breast cancer than Japanese women. 5. American men are five times more likely to die from prostate cancer than Japanese men. |
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