A billion Chinese can be wrong, or can they?
Most people assume that the Chinese eat little protein and a lot of rice and vegetables, and don’t have heart disease. According to the 2002 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update published by the American Heart Association, males and females ages 35-74 had a higher incidence of death from cardiovascular disease per capita in China (rural and urban) then the United States (about 11% for males and 50% for females). Deaths from strokes were over 5 times greater in China. However, deaths from coronary heart disease were about half as great in China. Therefore, to say the Chinese have less heart disease then Americans, would not be entirely true.
