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In the 1930s, Swiss-German physician Ralph Bircher conducted research on the Hunza diet. [2] In his book about the Hunza, Jay Hoffman argued that, by the ratio to cats, dogs and horses, humans should live up to 120 to 150 years, and argues the Hunza diet to be the key to this longevity. [3]
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.
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 longevity of Hunza people has been noted by some, [26] but others refute this as a longevity myth promoted by the lack of birth records. [27] There is no evidence that Hunza life expectancy is significantly above the average of poor, isolated regions of Pakistan.
British agronomist Guy T. Wrench in 1936 and organic farmer J. I. Rodale in 1948 both authored books associating longevity with unprocessed natural foods from the Hunza diet. [12] Rodale claimed that the Hunza people lived to be hundreds of years old and were never ill because of their diet of natural foods. [12]
Burusho people or Burusho, the majority ethnic group of Hunza, Nagar and Upper Chitral in Pakistan Burushaski language , spoken by the Burusho people in Hunza Topics referred to by the same term
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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 ...