[inexcf]

I mean, there's many factors to live expectancy but don't you find it strange to praise the cultural diet of a country that is at the bottom of the life expectancy chart? And looking at just longevity of individuals most centenarians are from countries with mostly animal protein based diets like Japan and the USA.(Their percentage of centenarians per capita being 100x higher.) Now, this might just be a correlation based on wealthier countries consuming more readily available meat. So i'm not gonna say that protein is a significant factor for health. But it's pretty clear that there's not data supporting the indian diet being healthier.

[aprao]

It's probably not correct to attribute all differences in life expectancy between India and USA to diet alone - factors like air quality are so much worse in India and play a significant role in reducing life expectancy as well. What makes more sense is to compare the life expectancy of Americans who tend to follow an Indian diet vs. those who don't. Asian Indian Americans have a life expectancy of 86-89 years [1], higher than of the US as a whole and even other asian sub groups. So the relative lack of importance attributed to protein is perhaps not as big a deal as people make it out to be.

1: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/58/5/1631/178...