Normal59 said...
Let's add some clarity: It's foolish to attempt draw meaningful conclusions about prostate cancer in the US versus prostate cancer in some place like India. Not going to be meaningful apples-to-apples. Here's a few points, and feel free to pooh-pooh any of them individually, but taken in aggregate the differences are far to vast.
- PC is, and remains, an "old man's disease." Yes, there is a long, thin tail on the distribution which results in a very small percentage of 50 YOs who die from PC, but generally it is an old man's disease. Average life expectancy in India is 10-years less than the US...this factor alone is the most significant contributor to the lower PC death rate in India.
- Hundreds of millions of Indians are in poverty; well over a quarter of the country. It's a joke to think there is any meaningful comparison of average diets.
- Attribution; in a country where some of the leading causes of death are diarrhoeal dieases and tuberculosis. There ARE some good hospitals in India where they accurately track cause of death, but far more people die every day without much understanding of why and with numerous confounding health issues.
You are kidding yourself, BillyBob, when you make comparisons about
PC death rates and diets between countries such as these.
I don't think I was the one linking about death rates in India, I'm not the OP- but that is OK. But your point #2 is the same one- more or less- as I made in my previous post: "Even with the vastly lower PC rates, curcumin is only one of several possible causes, of course..For example, I would bet the average citizen of India- whether by way of less pasta and pie and pancakes, or simply by way of significantly lower average calories available to them- inadvertently have a low insulin diet. ". But thanks for agreeing with me! 
Post Edited (BillyBob@388) : 10/2/2018 3:02:56 PM (GMT-6)