When Americans started to consume more vegetable oil instead of animal fat like butter and lard, and more carbohydrates and cut down red meat their health went bad. Even the 7th Day Adventist, the well known biggest vegetarian religion in the United States admits that their American members who eat the most fish have best health index among their members.
Americans per capita fish consumption hasn't increased much from past few decades, they need to start eating more fish and red meat, and less carbs and vegetable oil.
Despite air pollution is a serious problem in crowded Hong Kong, however, Hong Kong people enjoy the longest life expectancy and the highest national IQ estimate in the world. Their health index is one of the best in the world!
Hong Kong is the second-largest per capita consumer of seafood in Asia, and the seventh largest in the world.
In 2009, Each HK person ate 71.6kg per capita of seafood, the equivalent of about 250 mackerel. To put this in perspective, that is about 4.1 times higher than the global average (18.9 kg per capita; about 60 mackerel each per person).
This is not anything new, in the past decade Hong Kong people have been greatly increasing their consumption of seafood, red meat, poultry, dairy and eggs, all above world average but eat less in vegetables and grains, all below world average.
"Hong Kong health indices among world's best", reported by Government of the Hong Kong on 2003-01-28.
Compared to other countries, HK people eat the highest per capita amount of red meat and total meat (from all kinds of animal), their per capita consumption of produce, vegetable, fruit, grain, pulses and vegetable oil are lower than world average.
2015 UN Life Expectancy Data for Hong Kong:
Life Expectancy at birth (Both Sexes) 83.74 years, world 1st place!
Life Expectancy at birth (Male) 80.91 years, world 1st place!
Life Expectancy at birth (Female) 86.58 years, world 1st place!
World Average is 71.4 years.
Reference:
Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), released World Population Prospects, The 2015 Revision. The list is available at the web link below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy#List_by_the_United_Nations.2C_for_2010.E2.80.932015
National Geographic says:
Hong Kong's meat consumption increased drastically than any other nation's in these 50 years. As it has since 1980, a spurring point for the economy, Hong Kong consumes more meat per person—both calorically and in weight—than any other nation. Hong Kong’s diet has changed drastically in the last 50 years, with the average person eating more grams of meat per day than any other food group. The average caloric consumption per person has also increased by 26%.
The following United Nations dietary data are available at National Geographic website:
nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/
Average daily total meat products (livestock+seafood) consumption, percentage of total food intake by weight per person:
Hong Kong 32%
Japan 18%
World 9%
Average daily total meat products (livestock+seafood) consumption, grams per person:
Hong Kong 695 (world highest)
Japan 288
World 173
Average daily seafood consumption, percentage of total food intake by weight per person:
Hong Kong 9%
Japan 9%
World 3%
Average daily seafood consumption, grams per person per day:
Hong Kong 195
Japan 147
World 52
Average daily egg consumption, by weight in grams, per person:
Japan 52 (world highest)
Hong Kong 38
World 24
Pork Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
Hong Kong 394
World 120
Total Meat Consumption (red meat, poultry, fish) calories per person per day (2011):
Hong Kong 940
World 272
Seafood Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
Hong Kong 104
World 34
Pork Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
Hong Kong 394
World 120
Grain Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
World 1296
Hong Kong 955
Produce Consumption, grams per person per day (2011):
World 749
Hong Kong 588
Vegetable Consumption, grams per person per day (2011):
World 372
Hong Kong 310
Vegetable Oil Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
World 280
Hong Kong 250
Pulses Consumption, calories per person per day (2011):
World 64
Hong Kong 12
