In Pakistan there is said to be a people who are said to be the healthiest people on earth.
The most important thing about the people:
- The Hunza people are said to live to an unusually old age and are extremely healthy
- However, the myth is based on pre-dictated stories from the local authorities
- In fact, the Hunza become just as sick and live just as short a life as other peoples in the area
The Hunza people, who live in the Hunza River Valley in what is now Pakistan, are said to have amazing characteristics: no one gets cancer, they are said to have a natural defense system against heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, live up to 120 years and give birth at the age of 70 to 80 .
The cause of the claims is an article from “ Basenbox ”, a site that deals with alkaline organic dishes. The text of the article is partially copied and reposted on Facebook.
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The question now is whether the Hunza really have such a long, disease-free life, and if so, what could be the reason for that.
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Several visitors reported this
As early as 1921, Dr. Robert McCarrison, a Scottish doctor, was one of the first to speak to the Hunza people and afterwards spoke of the vegetarian diet of the people living there, which kept them free from disease. Author Renee Taylor later visited the people and subsequently wrote a book about “the Hunza secrets of health, long life and happiness.”
But in 1956 Dr. John Clark also came from Hunza and lived with the people for 20 months. His observations were intended to dispel some of the myths that persist to this day...
The observations of Dr. John Clark
Dr. Clark spent a long time there for a good reason, as he quickly discovered that the stories that came from McCarrison, Taylor and other visitors all had as their source only the ruler, in the local language "Mir". At that time, the Hunza people were an absolutist and isolated monarchy; visitors only heard what they were supposed to hear on a guided tour.
Visitors at the time also learned the “facts” that Hunza was the largest country in the world and the “Mir” was the most powerful ruler, and of course that it was the richest and healthiest people.
Dr. John Clark, however, wanted to know more and decided to pay more than a brief visit to the Hunza: he lived there and after a while won the favor of “Mir” and his entourage.
The findings
Initially, Dr. Clark talks a lot about the clean mountain air and the country where everyone has enough to eat. But he quickly discovered that it was actually a very poor, often starving population who suffered from the dictatorial elite and backward agricultural methods.
In addition, many residents suffered from paralysis, intestinal worms and malnutrition. Dr. Clark was also told by residents of family members who died very young. The average life expectancy of the Hunza, like all other peoples in the areas of Pakistan, is 50 to 60 years.
Other visitors after Dr. Clark noted that the inadequate food supply in the Hunza Valley and the unfair organization led to large-scale famines among the people in the spring, which led to outbreaks of violence.
The myth as an advertising tool
Not surprising: A lot of sites like “Natural News” and other esoteric/pseudo-medical sites sell their remedies with a picture of the Hunza people and the legend that this or that extract comes from the valley and ensures a particularly long life. So the Hunza people are celebrated on pseudo-scientific sites almost as a pop culture phenomenon, under whose name you can sell pretty much any product, from healing water to the vegan Hunza diet .
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Conclusion
The myth about the Hunza is based purely on initial stories from visitors who only received their information hand-picked and essentially dictated by the authorities.
But since the middle of the 20th century, this myth has been debunked by several people who lived there: the people do not live longer than other peoples in the area, the diet is dependent on the environment, and diseases exist there, like everywhere else .
The Hunza do not have the “secret of eternal life” within them, nor do they have a natural defense system against various diseases.
Article image: Shutterstock / By khlongwangchao
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