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Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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dmichulke wrote: post #69
_ak wrote: post #61

Well, if that is true, then why is German statistically the country with the highest average age in the world (on par with Japan), even though their food is quite bland?

Germany is nowhere near the top (#19 with 9 other countries) although there's also not much lacking either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

I don't think you understand what average resp. median age means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_...

Japan and Germany are the ones with highest median age.

Re: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

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Post by dmichulke »

_ak wrote: post #121
dmichulke wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Germany is nowhere near the top (#19 with 9 other countries) although there's also not much lacking either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

I don't think you understand what average resp. median age means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_... Japan and Germany are the ones with highest median age.

I must have misunderstood your original comment because "the highest average age" has clearly nothing to do with life expectancy.

Then again, why do you cite the average or median age if the original article is about life expectancy?

My corrected response to your original comment would be: Because the birth rates are so low that the lack of children "raises" the median age.

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