title: [Life expectancy--the Japanese experience].
abstract: The author thinks that the rise in Japanese life expectancy since the end of world war I is due to the increase of fat and animal matter in Japanese diet by American influence. Even the "West" should consider a "paleolithization" of its diet as up to now all "field studies" failed to show a positive effect of a low cholesterol diet on total mortality; this the more the epidemiological relations between fat intake and coronary and cancer mortality can be explained by adaptation to carbohydrates since the neolithic.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lutz
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D004032:Diet; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000208:ethnology*
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats
vernacular_title: Lebenserwartung--was ist mit den Japanern los?