Table 2.

Linear regression analyses

	Fat	PA	Whole milk	Dairy products	Veg. etc	Alcohol	S/M ratio	Obesity rate	Smoking rate	GDP
Calorie	0.876	0.745	-0.267	0.679	0.539	0.584	0.530	0.119	0.122	0.785
Fat	-	0.605	-0.360	0.803	0.497	0.608	0.447	0.084	-0.026	0.902
PA		-	-0.286	0.402	0.812	0.391	0.267	0.179	0.294	0.482
Whole milk			-	-0.522	-0.268	-0.203	-0.192	-0.216	-0.034	-0.340
Dairy products				-	0.312	0.503	0.525	0.093	-0.045	0.834
Veg. etc					-	0.119	0.157	0.290	0.091	0.419
Alcohol						-	0.336	0.013	0.283	0.585
S/M ratio							-	0.093	0.150	0.510
Obesity rate								-	0.048	0.140
Smoking rate									-	-0.141

Dairy products include all products from milk including whole milk. Veg. etc includes vegetables, fruits, nuts, and beans, but excludes potatoes. Alcohol is the sum of the amount of all alcoholic drinks. Some of the figures are transformed to approximate normal distribution.

PA = polyamine; Veg. = vegetables; S/M ratio = seafood/meat ratio.