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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] The claims had no basis in fact and were refuted by a team of Japanese ...
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.
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 results of this study suggested that following a diet high in fast food, processed red meat, and soda but low in fruits and vegetables may speed up aging, even in young adults.
After the Spanish conquest, the access to meat was drastically reduced changing the diet of the Muisca and other indigenous groups of central Colombia. Studies from Tunja, called Hunza in the time of the Muisca, have shown the people did not suffer from malnutrition though. [5]
1United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND, USA 2Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Tucson, AZ, USA 3Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, WI, USA
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