The second is reported in the current issue of Lancet. Duesberg does not accept the findings. It is claimed that the recent popularity in Japan for American fast food symbolized by the 958 Japanese McDonald's has led to a less healthy Japanese population. The death from all cancers have gone up by at least one-third in just one generation. The rate of heart attacks and diabetes has also increased.
Most Japanese epidemiologists believe that fatty foods are responsible for most of the increases.
However there are other causes for some of the increases. For example, the increased incidence of breast cancer could be associated with the earlier menstruation and a later age for having children for the current generation. About 13 percent of Americans are left handed, but only about 5 percent of those in their fifties are left handed. A recent study by Robert Glynn concluded that left handed people live as long as right-handers suggesting that the fact that their are fewer left handers among older people can be accounted for by pressure to become right handed. The author of earlier studies which claimed that left handers live less long, Stanley Coren, believes that left handers have a higher rate of deaths from accidents because tools, driving customs etc.