Hunza Valley - Healthy Land With No Disease

Before contact with outside world, Hunza land depends basically on crop cultivation and rearing of cattle for their subsistence. They are not skilled in craft, nor do they engaged in trade. Though they were warlike for centuries, rarely plundering neighboring communities for needed items. They stopped being plunderers for over the last 160 years.

The first westerner to discover these strange people was a brave Scottish physician, Dr. MacCarrisson. An adventurer by nature, MacCarrisson had no doubt about embarking on a dangerous journey to the Hunza Valley, Himalayas, between the two World Wars. He spent a total of 7 years among the Hunza valley people.

His discoveries quite surprised him. Because he possessed adequate medical knowledge and skills, he was not in anyway been gullible or fabricate any false information.

The first thing he observed was that the Hunzakuts seemed to have exceptional health, more than any group of people he had ever met before. Even more surprising was the fact that, as far as he could tell, they suffered from no diseases whatsoever.

The Hunzas seemed to be totally resistant to all supposed modern diseases, notably cancer and heart disease which, as you probably know, are the two primary causes of death in western countries.

Besides, Dr. MacCarrisson did not encounter a single case of arthritis, varicosity, constipation, stomach ulcers or appendicitis during the entire 7 years he spent among the Hunzas. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that childhood diseases were also found. None of the Hunza children had any of the diseases common to their western peers: mumps, measles and chicken pox were unheard of, and infant mortality was an extremely rare occurrence.

All this is in direct contrast to the sorry state of affairs in most so-called developed societies, where it would not be unfair to say that both physical and psychological health is the exception rather than the rule.

Statistics overwhelmingly support such a statement. Hospitals everywhere are overflowing with patients, and the health care system as a whole is being strained to the limit. Pharmaceutical companies earn billions of dollars in profits each year, as millions of people consume sleeping pills and sedatives of all kinds on a daily basis.

Another vital fact to understand is that the health of the Hunzas is not branded by the simple non-existence of disease, although that in itself is quite an achievement. More than just not being affected by diseases that strike down so many of our peers in the prime of life, the Hunzas seem to have boundless energy and enthusiasm. Compared to the average Hunza, a westerner of the same age - even one who is considered extremely fit - would seem sickly. And not only seem sickly, but actually be sick!

Is Dr. MacCarrisson's Report about Hunza Valley People Realy True?

In addition to Dr. MacCarrisson's report, several other researches show that the Hunza People are uniquely healthy and free of disease. The studies show that their simple healthy diet of carefully grown organic food and the glacial water is their secret to health and long life. Hunza drink directly from glacial streams in the high Himalayas. It is fresh, energizing, life enhancing and delicious.

Are surprise? Are these mountain people really that healthy? This same question was asked by cardiologists Dr. Edward Toomey and Dr. Paul White, who made the hard trip up the mountain routes to Hunza, taking along with them a portable, battery-operated electrocardiograph.

In the Journal of American Heart (December, 1964), the doctors say they used the ECG device to study 25 Hunza men, who were, fairly ascertained to between 90 and 110 years old. Cholesterol levels and blood pressure were also tested. The doctors reported that not one of these men showed a single sign of coronary heart disease, high cholesterol or high blood pressure.

Dr. Allen E. Banik, an optometrist, who also questioned the great health and land-of-no-disease status of Hunza Valley people, also made a harsh journey to Hunza to see for himself if the reputation was true. He published his report in a book titled "Hunza Land (Whitehorn Publishing Co., 1960)". Dr. Banik stated. "I examined the eyes of some of Hunza's oldest citizens and found them to be perfect."

Apart from the amazing status of no-disease, many observers were shocked by the positive side of Hunza health. For instance, Dr. Banik related that "many Hunza people are so strong that in the winter they exercise by breaking holes in the ice-covered streams and take a swim down under the ice."

Other adventurers who have been at Hunza Valley reported their bewilderment at seeing men 70, 80, 90 and 100 years old doing hard labor of fixing the rocky roads and lifting large rocks to repair the retaining walls around their terrace farms. The Hunza valley centenarians think nothing of engaging in competitive game of volleyball in the hot sun against men 50 years their junior, and even take part in violent game of polo.

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