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Such ideas also promoted by natural health advocates have been discredited. There is no reliable documentation validating the age of alleged Hunza supercentenarians. [1] [4] False claims about the Hunza people living to be hundreds of years old in perfect health from their diet of "natural foods" were promoted by J. I. Rodale and G. T. Wrench. [5]
However, whether or not their putative longevity is true, it is undoubtable that the Hunza people lead a healthy lifestyle along with a healthy diet. Many researchers have lived with the Hunza people to answer this mystery including Robert McCarrison who did not discover a single person with diseases such as cancer, stomach ulcers or appendicitis.
A 1973 National Geographic article on longevity reported, as a very aged people, the Burusho–Hunza people in the Hunza Valley of the mountains of Pakistan. [ 88 ] Swedish death registers contain detailed information on thousands of centenarians going back to 1749; the maximum age at death reported between 1751 and 1800 was 147.
The Burusho, or Brusho (Burushaski: بُرُشݸ , burúśu [6]), also known as the Botraj, [7] [8] are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in the northern part of Kashmir [9] with a tiny minority of around 350 Burusho people residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Hunza was an independent principality for centuries. It was ruled by the Mirs of Hunza, who took the title of Thum.. The Hunzai people maintained their relationship with China, recognizing China as their suzerain from around 1760 [3] or 1761.
Lung cancer survival has not improved much in the last 50 years, according to Cancer Research UK, with less than one in 10 (9.5 per cent) of people diagnosed with the disease surviving for 10 ...
The book advocates a diet of 75% raw food, which it claims will prevent degenerative diseases, slow the effects of aging, provide enhanced energy, and boost emotional balance; it cites examples such as the sprouted-seed-enriched diets of the long-lived Hunza people and Gerson therapy, an unhealthy, dangerous and potentially very harmful [32 ...
Many cancer screenings for older adults stop based on a patient's life expectancy. But should they? ... the guidance gets a little more complicated as people age. "There are a lot of older adults ...