Comment by nradov
2 days ago
There may be some correlation but causality is unclear. India has a lot of vegetarians and also a high incidence of heart disease.
2 days ago
There may be some correlation but causality is unclear. India has a lot of vegetarians and also a high incidence of heart disease.
That might have something more to do with almost one in four people in India being a tobacco user[1]. CDC suggests that one in four CVD deaths (in the US) is caused by tobacco use[2].
[1]: https://globalactiontoendsmoking.org/research/tobacco-around...
[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/about/cigarettes-and-cardiovascu...
It has more to do with people who are on farming diets but no longer farm.
People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.
I don't understand the claim: is it that farming diets are unhealthy, or something else? I'd expect subsistence lifestyles to have higher all-round mortality, but probably not CVD specifically.
> People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.
I suspect they also lived shorter lives for the aforementioned all-round mortality reasons.
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