Let's talk about healthy nutrition

[Eddie]

Contrast this with the Hunzas, who live to be 120, and climb mountains up until the day they die. They are vegetarians, drink raw goat's milk, and drink freshly melted glacier water. Interestingly, when the younger generation of Hunzas began moving into the cities and eating at McDonald's etc. they started getting heart disease, cancer, etc. just like other people. The younger Hunzas in their 60s are now sicker than their grandparents!

I read a long article on the Hunzas about a year ago...It was in, I think, either Smithsonian or Natural History magazine. The Hunzas are not (and never were) vegetarians; they eat meat whenever they can get it, and in fact, prefer meat to other foods. They don't eat much because they are poor. They eat vegetables and fruits during the summer and fall, because they have to save their sheep and goats to eat during the winter, when they can't grow plants. They live a marginal existence farming very thin, nutrient-poor soil at high altitude, and can hardly raise enough of anything, animal or vegetable.

The authors of the article stated that the Hunzas aren't as healthy as commonly supposed, either; they suffer many chronic diseases, and most are infested with parasites.

The myth of Hunza vegetarianism began some years ago, when a western traveler reached their remote realm. He was with them for a short period in late summer, when the Hunzas were eating their garden produce. He didn't stay long enough to experience their meat-eating season.