See my post above. My

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See my post above. My brilliant great aunt was obese, drank martinis and lived into her 90s while maintaining a razor sharp intellect. That doesn’t mean being obese and drinking martinis is good for you. It means she was lucky. People have a bias to find examples of outcomes that match what they’d like to believe.

For years the Japanese polished rice with talc, which naturally contains asbestos. It was suggested that this habit was carcinogenic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/5098957/
Japan (and other Asian countries)still has an enormously high rate of stomach cancer – 4x that of the U.K. Still not clear why: http://www.economicsofcancer.com/blog/stomach-cancer-is-a-major-problem-in-japan

Maybe it’s the bitter melon…..