HUNZAS - a people who live to age 145!

[Arrowwind]

Posted by karelia (here)

Posted by Arrowwind (here)
So what do they eat all winter, just dried apricots? I suspect these people eat a lot of meat in the winter, yak, goat, sheep and all the milk products they offer. One cannot live on apricots alone. Meat is one product that can hold over through the winter without decay if you know what your doing... and mostly that is keeping it alive on the hoof until needed. Meat I suspect is their winter seasonal source of protien along with milk year round.

Have you seen what they eat in the dead of winter?

No, they do eat meat. When I said they don't eat MUCH meat, I meant it in comparison to the average American diet. They grow vegetables in Hunza Valley, too, and preserve those, and of course they have dairy (milk, yogurt, probably less cheese aside from paneer, perhaps). The point I was trying to get across is that those people live much more in tune with nature, which is very unlike the Western way of mindless consuming as much as possible and not giving a damn about consequences in either health or nature.

Granted, these people will eat much more in tune with nature seeing that thay have no refrigerators, packaged foods, chemical preservatives, etc. I even wonder if they have canning jars? I think that may not be likely due to the need to replenish them and their lids frequently.

I do not assume that eating in tune with nature will always equate to better health. One must look to see if the local nature provides all that is needed in sufficient quantity year round to prevent misscarriage, low birth weight, birth defects, neonatal death, rickets, goiter, other vitamin D3 deficency diseases, other nutritional deficency diseases and poor immune response with associated infection rates.

Im sure its a big plus for them being disassociated from our chemical and drug laden world and being able to drink pure living water and breathe clean air.