Hunza Health Secrets

The Hunzas who live in the north of India, follow the principles of sound nutrition and with amazing results.

Dr. Sir Robert McCarrison, C.I.E., M.D., D.Sci., L.L.D., F.R.C.P., one time physician to the Viceroy of India, gives the following report on the Hunzas and furnishes us with the following description of their magnificent physical condition:

“The diet of these people corresponds in many ways to that of the Sikhs, but they eat less meat, and, their stock being limited to goats, their consumption of milk and milk products is less than that of the Sikhs.

“But they are great fruit-eaters, especially of apricots and mulberries, which they use in both the raw and the sun-dried state.  

“The power of endurance of these people is extraordinary: to see a man of this race throw off his scanty garments, revealing a figure which would delight the eye of a Rodin, and plunge into a glacier-fed river in the middle of winter, with as much unconcern as many of us would take a tepid bath, is to realize that perfection of physique and great physical endurance are attainable on the simplest of foods, provided these be of the right kind.

“These people are long-lived and vigorous in old age.  Among them the ailments too common in our own people – such as gastro-intestinal disorders, colitis, gastric and duodenal ulcer and cancer – are extraordinarily uncommon, and I have no doubt whatever in my own mind that their freedom from the scourges of modern civilisation is due to three things:

“(1) Their use of simple, natural foodstuffs of the right kind; (2) their vigorous outdoor life, and (3) their fine bracing climate.

“It is some years now since I drew attention to the freedom of these people from any of the maladies which so commonly afflict our own people, and found a reason for it in their use of simple food-stuffs...

“With the Hunzas, resistance to infection is remarkable... Cancer is so rare that in nine years’ practice I never came across a single case of it.”

(The McCarrison report titled, “One example of a Properly-Fed People,” originally published in 1958, was printed and distributed by Science of Life Books Pty. Ltd., Box 4397, G.P.Q., Sydney, Australia – J.P.)