| History Of Hunza Diet Bread |
By Mary Travis, Special feature writer (Canfield, OH) Is there a painless way for people to lose weight? Yes! HUNZA DIET BREAD is being hailed as the weight loss method of the century. The bread is a duplicate of a 2,000-year-old recipe used by the little known civilization of Hunza. It is a natural and powerful appetite inhibitor. The Hunzas are considered to be the healthiest people on earth. Their bread is the main part of their diet. This bread is absolutely delicious. Everybody loves it. But then a startling discovery was made. Just one or two slices of this bread would suppress a person's appetite for 4 to 6 hours! Could this be a designed bread invented thousands of years ago? There are facts being uncovered that support a theory that this bread was designed in ancient times for the express purpose of tiding people over when food supplies were scarce. Let's start with the Hunzas who are exceptionally trim, fit and the healthiest people on earth. Many consider their bread to be one of the main reasons for the extraordinary health of the Hunzas. Here is a little background of the Hunzas from a feature story which has been published in many major newspapers throughout North America. This is an excerpt from the article: "The Hunzas exist isolated from the rest of the world in the Himalayan Mountains where they live to be 110 to 120 years of age. They have no cancer, heart attacks or other major disorders to speak of. They are active and fit to the end of their lives. Men father children at 100 years of age and older. Overweight people are unheard of because they have the perfect weight control system." The story then relates research and fact finding visits to Hunza by such notables as Queen Elizabeth, Art Linkletter, N.B.C., The National Geographic Magazine, Frank Shor, Lowell Thomas Jr. and Chou En Lai of China. Visitors to Hunza all came back with the same identical description of the Hunza people: "Hunza men are straight, tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, slim-waisted, heavy-legged and have full heads of hair. Hunza women are straight, tall, slim-waisted, developed bosoms, perfect complexions and luxuriant hair. Both men and women have perfect teeth and eyesight even at 100 years of age and older! They are neat, clean, intelligent and friendly and you can't find an overweight person. Hunza women at 80 look no older than North American women of 40. Fatigue is virtually unknown. Hunza men over 90 years old repeatedly walk the mountain trail of 65 miles from the town of Gilgit with a full pack and immediately start to work in the fields again!" We feel that the Hunza bread may be "by design" both a hunger suppressant and a super health food. It is a simple, nutritious bread that is easily prepared in just 5 minutes using a few ingredients that have always been universally available and the taste is wonderful. The Hunzas were originally soldiers of Alexander the Great. This bread may have been designed for the use of his far traveling armies. It would make sense. It's the most compact form of hunger satisfaction and nutrition we know of. According to traces of Macedonian Heritage, this bread could have originated in Egypt over 5,000 years ago. As you know, the Egyptians were capable of doing many things that modern science cannot, even today, duplicate. We are convinced that the Hunza bread is one of the major reasons for the good health of the Hunzas. The Hunzas were people who spent a lot of time in the outdoors, trekking long distances over mountainous terrain. They developed this recipe as a sort of "meal bar" that was loaded with a healthy balance of nutrients to support a lot of physical exertion, while being easy to carry for days at a time in a pack. It's substantial and it's supposed to be baked hard so it will hold up under these conditions. Given today's sedentary lifestyle in the United States, very few of us expend that many calories and would be willing to eat this food unaccompanied by all the rest of the things we expect to have in our daily diet. We also are not accustomed to eating things that are so hard. Most of the inquiries we get are from people who want to lose weight. Due to their lifestyle in a developed country, they typically need to ingest fewer calories, not more. The article below is about how this bread was origanally discoverd here in the United States Housewife In New York Accidentally Invents A Bread That Miraculously Stops Your Appetite And Hunger HUNZA DIET BREAD is said to beat all fad diets hands down. It's the fastest, painless way to lose weight. By Allen Perry, Special feature writer (Champlain, NY) Here is a message to all you genius research scientists trying to find a painless way for people to lose weight. It's been done! Not by a scientist, but, by a housewife. Being hailed here as the weight loss method of the century, HUNZA DIET BREAD is rolling out like a juggernaught! The bread was discovered by accident, Irene Sette, wife of a health researcher, was trying to duplicate a 2,000-year-old, high roughage bread used by the little known civilization of Hunza. The Hunzas were being studied by her husband. The Hunzas are considered to be the healthiest people on earth. Their bread is the main part of their diet. Irene was trying to make this bread good tasting so that her children would eat it. Irene succeeded in coming up with a recipe that was absolutely delicious. Everybody loved it. But, then a startling discovery was made. Just one or two very small pieces of bread would ruin a person's appetite for 5 or 6 hours! At first, she became upset at this drawback. But then while talking it over with her husband. Scott Sette, it hit them. This was not a drawback at all, but a huge benefit. It was the ultimate weapon in the fight against obesity that researchers have been trying to discover for decades. Irene had apparently come up with the first natural and healthy appetite inhibitor. Or was she the first? Could this be a designed bread invented thousands of years ago? Mr. Sette is a researcher for The New York Health Institute. He had been studying the Hunzas for years. Now he had some questions that needed answered. The Hunzas have little food in the winter. Was the bread an ancient discovery of a hunger suppressant which also provided healthful nourishment to the body during winter months? I held an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Sette in their lovely home in Champlain, NY which is located right next to the Canadian border in Upstate New York. Upon arrival my greeting was warm and friendly and I immediately felt right at home and everyone was on a first name basis. I also noticed that the Sette's were exceptionally trim, fit and healthy. Our interview took place in the kitchen with the HUNZA DIET BREAD being prepared for me to taste. It smelled delicious. Question: "Scott, to what do you attribute the powerful appetite inhibiting properties of your wife's bread?" Answer: "Well, Allen, right now we're in the stage of making educated guesses. Theory 1 is that Irene, while experimenting with the bread recipe accidentally combined natural food substances which react together to form a natural appetite or hunger inhibitor. There are also facts being uncovered that support Theory 2 that this bread was designed in ancient times for the express purpose of tiding people over, when food supplies were scarce. Let's start with the Hunzas who are the healthiest people on earth. I consider their bread to be one of the main reasons for this." Question: "Before you do that, Scott, I would like to give the reader a little background of the Hunzas. I have here a feature story which has been published in many major newspapers through- out North America." Here is an excerpt from the article: "The Hunzas exist isolated from the rest of the world in the Himalayan Mountains where they live to be 110 to 120 years old. They have no cancer, heart attacks, or other major disorders to speak of. They are active and fit to the very end. Men father children at 100 years and older. Overweight people are unheard of because they have the perfect weight control system." The story then relates research and fact finding visits to Hunza by such notables as Queen Elizabeth, Art Linkletter and N.B.C., The National Geographic Magazine, Frank Shor, Lowell Thomas, Jr., Chou En Lai of China. Visitors to Hunza all came back with the same identical description of the Hunza people: "Hunza men are straight, tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, slim-waisted, heavy-legged, and have full heads of hair. Hunza women are straight, tall, slim-waisted, developed bosoms, perfect complexions, and luxuriant hair. Both men and women have perfect teeth and eyesight even at 100 years and older! They are neat, clean, intelligent and friendly. And you can't find an overweight person. Hunza women at 80 look no older than North American women of 40. Fatigue is virtually unknown. Hunza men over 90 years old repeatedly walk the mountain trail of 65 miles from the town of Gilgit with a full pack and immediately start to work in the fields again!" The article then relates an eye-opening experiment by the world renowned, brilliant English surgeon, Dr. Robert McCarrison, who tested the merits of the Hunza diet in a controlled, scientific experiment on 5,000 laboratory rats. He took the one group of normal rats and put them on the Hunza diet. He then took a second group and put them on a typical English diet. After several years the rats on the Hunza diet showed absolutely no disease, had proper weight, and were completely healthy beyond normal. The rats on the English diet were overweight, diseased and had tumors, ulcers, bad teeth, crooked spines, falling hair, skin disorders, heart trouble, kidney trouble, glandular trouble and they were very hostile. He then took these diseased rats who had been on the English diet and put them on the Hunza diet. They all became well! "O.K., now we can continue. So, you feel that the Hunza bread may be "by design" both a hunger suppressant and a super health food?" Answer: "Yes, but if it is, there's a question, who designed it? Now the Hunzas were originally soldiers of Alexander the Great. This bread may have been designed for the use of his far traveling armies. It would make sense. It's the most compact form of hunger satisfaction and nutrition I know of. But, further investigation brought about some really wild possibilities. According to traces of Macedonian Heritage, this bread could have originated in Egypt over 5,000 years ago. As you know, the Egyptians were capable of doing many things that modern science cannot duplicate. But getting back to the focal point of this matter, regardless of where it came from, we have it. And, it's tested and it works." Question: "That bread smells delicious. And since we're going to discuss the bread, let's ask the discoverer. Irene, how did it all start?" Answer: "Well, as I mentioned. Scott had been investigating the Hunzas for many years and was convinced that their bread was one of the major reasons for their good health. So he asked me to duplicate it and use it at home. I thought it would be easy at first but it turned into a nightmare. The recipes that visitors to Hunza came back with were either too general or did not turn into bread at all. So, I decided to make a list of all the key food elements in Hunza and began experimenting, trying to come up with a bread that would taste good so that our kids would like it too." Question: "How long did it take before you were successful?" Answer: "Oh, after about six months of trial and error I finally hit on a perfect batch one summer morning. Everyone in the family shared some of the bread and raved about how good it was. With no exaggeration, it was the best bread we had ever tasted. After eating the bread, nobody had an appetite that day and the kids weren't hungry for lunch which was very unusual but we didn't think much about it at the time. Then we started to notice that whenever we ate the bread during the day we weren't hungry for our evening meal. It got so that I wouldn't allow anyone to eat the bread unless it was with our evening meal. But, then I found that when I served it at dinner, everybody ate a much smaller amount of their meal. It got to the point that if we were going out to eat or if I was cooking a special dinner, the bread was not allowed for that day. I was even beginning to get upset that my delicious bread had turned into a problem because it devoured everyone's appetite and hunger." Question: "How long did it take you to realize that what you really had was the all-time weapon against obesity?" Answer: "You know it was quite a long time. Three or four months. And surprisingly, my husband was involved in obesity research at the time. Also, both of us had trouble with being overweight. There it was right in front of our noses; but, we were too close to it, to see it ourselves. Then one day we were talking to a friend I grew up with who was telling us that she was taking prescription diet pills to help reduce her appetite. It hit both of us at once. We jumped up and said. "Boy, have we got the thing for you!" That was it. We both were ready to kick ourselves for not seeing it before. Both my husband and I started using the bread as a weight loss device and began losing weight like crazy, much faster than any weight loss method we ever tried, and, we have tried them all believe me. We then decided to call it HUNZA DIET BREAD." Question: "Scott, according to your research, exactly how does it compare to some of the fad diets such as liquid protein?" Answer: "There's no comparison. Those diets are in another league, the minor league, next to our HUNZA DIET BREAD. Fad diets such as The Zone and Protein Power are not only ineffective, they're downright dangerous. When I say they are ineffective I mean; that either a person will not stick with them because they are uncomfortable or when the diet is over they'll put the weight right back on. All of us lifetime dieters know of the miseries of the high protein and liquid protein (or milkshake) diets. They seem okay for the first few days, then they become repulsive. You get "full" on these diets but not satisfied. Then they bring on unpleasant complications that can jeopardize your health. The liquid protein diet is the worst of all of them. This diet is really dangerous to your health and very unpleasant. Some of the side effects include: fatigue, dizzy spells, bad breath, hair loss, oily skin, constipation and cardiovascular disorders. All that stuff they tell you about liquid protein is complete nonsense. What it really amounts to is fasting. But, they tell you that "in fasting the body attacks the body protein first." That's hogwash. Fasting is an effective and healthy way to lose weight which has been successfully used by the greatest men in history for over 2,000 years. The Hunzas fast regularly and they live to be 120 years old. Liquid protein actually ruins a fast. The only thing you do when you add liquid protein is cause problems. You have a less effective fast and the excess protein wreaks havoc with the body. All liquid protein diets amount to nothing more than a scheme to sell liquid protein." Question: "I know what you're talking about, I'm what you call a "lifetime dieter" myself. These fad diets are just that fads, because as soon as people find out how bad they are, they disappear. Now, I like hearing about a diet that's been around for at least 2,000 years. That rings of stability. (At this point Irene placed the hot bread on a bread board. It looked very appetizing to say the least.) Tell me about the advantages of HUNZA DIET BREAD. I will get a piece, won't I?" Answer: "Of course, just as soon as it cools a little. There are primary and secondary benefits. The biggest benefit I can think of is that the dieter just doesn't suffer AT ALL! It's such a natural and powerful appetite inhibitor. This bread satisfies both appetite and hunger. And it does it with only 84 calories (100 calories spread with butter) as effectively as most 1800 calorie full meals. We define appetite and hunger like this: appetite is mainly the desire you get for food even when you know you're really not hungry. It's that craving in your mouth you get that's known as the cold mouth feeling. It can also be present even though you've just eaten. Your stomach may be full but you still crave something else. This is the feeling you get with a protein diet. You can stuff yourself with protein until you're ready to bust but the cold mouth craving is still there. Hunger on the other hand is best described as those pangs of hunger you get or that empty feeling in your stomach that lets you know you really need to eat something rather than simply wanting to eat for the enjoyment of it. After a slice or two of HUNZA DIET BREAD you eliminate both appetite and hunger. You feel satisfied and full. And, it lasts depending on the person up to 7 hours. For both of us it lasts 6 to 7 hours." Question: "What is the secondary benefit?" Answer: "Well, first of all each slice of HUNZA DIET BREAD is close to being a balanced meal in itself. So right off the bat you don't strip your body of nutrition or give it too much of one thing or too little of another. Second, not only is the bread nutritional, but it contains some proven good health producing foods of the Hunzas. Also, it is high in roughage or fiber. It passes through your digestive system quickly so the actual absorbed calories are less. You also become very regular eating this bread." Question: "IRENE, tell me what it's like to eat a piece of the bread, that is, what do you experience yourself?" Answer: "OK., let's start with the eating. We suggest eating it while it's still warm, with a little butter. It's a heavy bread. I only need one slice, my husband usually has 2 slices. Eating it is the first delightful experience you'll have. It tastes better than any bread that we've ever eaten. Along with the taste, being warm makes it truly satisfying to eat. Now, here's what its like hour by hour after you eat the bread. Hour 1 and 2. Each minute after you finish eating the bread seems like a build-up of a "fullness" feeling. It's just as though you have kept on eating. You keep getting fuller and fuller. Both your appetite and hunger are very satisfied. You don't crave anything more. Hour 3. In hour 3 something else happens. The thought of food just doesn't appeal to you. It's not an unpleasant experience, quite the opposite. But, you don't have a desire for food in any way, shape or form. Hour 4 and 5. You no longer have a feeling of being stuffed or turned off by the thought of eating but, there's a kind of nothing feeling. You don't want to eat, and you don't crave anything. It's just as I said, a sort of comfortable "nothing" stage. Hour 6 and 7. Toward the end of the 6th hour you begin to get mildly hungry which then slowly increases into the 6th and 7th hour." Question: "Now, all that for only the cost of 100 to 200 calories. You can't get that performance out of a 2,000 calorie meal can you?" Answer: "Right. Now you've got the gist of the whole thing. Here's another little known thing about standard lunch hours and dinners. Let's say you eat a milk shake, hamburger and french fries for lunch, that's over a 1,000 calories. There's a lot of sugar and salt in that meal. When you're done the first thing that happens is that your body shoots a large amount of insulin into your system to counteract the sugar. Your blood sugar is lowered and within an hour you feel hungry again and start snacking. On top of that the salt has made you thirsty and you gulp water or soft drinks and retain the fluids. On the other hand, if you try a "Weight watchers" lunch, or similar balanced diet, you'd have to eat between 400 to 600 calories of cottage cheese, lean meat, and eggs to feel reasonably full. But, you would not be satisfied and almost immediately you'd be hungry again and need to consume more of the same. You can't win. There's no diet that exists where you don't suffer in some way." Question: "Scott, exactly what kind of a program do you go on to lose weight with HUNZA DIET BREAD?" Answer: "There are many ways to do it. This is another benefit. It's flexible. Here are some typical plans. Each slice of bread is thinly spread with butter for a total of 100 calories. Plan A: Eat 1 slice every 5 hours of the 16 hours you're awake. That's 3 slices which total 300 calories. This is the fastest way to lose weight I know of. It works faster for me than any high protein diet. Why? You have more energy and burn more calories. Second, the high fiber bread keeps your digestive system regular. Third, your body stays healthy. A healthy body means a properly functioning metabolic system. Plan B: Really gorge yourself with the bread. Two slices every four hours for a total of 8 slices but only 800 calories. You'll feel full all day. In fact, I doubt many people could eat this much of the bread. Plan C: Eat a slice in the morning for breakfast and a slice 3 hours before your dinner and you will eat a great deal less. Plan D: Eat a slice of HUNZA DIET BREAD, 10 minutes before you eat your regular meal. When we do this we eat only a fraction, such as 1/4 of what we would normally eat. If we wait longer than 10 minutes we don't want to eat at all. Plan E: Eat the bread at the end of meals that don't fill you up enough, such as low calorie meals. This is a perfect way to use the bread. You eat a low calorie meal, enjoy it, then eat a slice or two of bread to fill you up. Perfect! No suffering and no urge to snack. Plan F: Alternate Plan A, B, C, D. We recommend an alternation of the plans, but some people who just want to get the weight off as soon as possible will use Plan A exclusively." Question: "Yes, Irene, you have a comment?" Answer: "Yes, you can really think up all kinds of ways to use the bread. For instance, as a housewife it's harder to diet because you have to prepare food for the family. I eat my bread exactly 2 hours before I am going to prepare a meal. That way when I prepare the meal I am in the 3rd hour where food just doesn't hold any interest for me. No way am I tempted to nibble or taste." Question: "Irene, you all look very healthy. Is it because of the bread?" Answer: "That's a big part of it. You feel better and look better after you start eating this bread. You know my daughter, besides having a weight problem, also had a mild case of acne, and since she started eating the bread her skin has completely cleared up." Question: "Scott, how many pounds can you lose a week using this bread?" Answer: "The exact number of pounds depends on the person's size and metabolic rate. Using the bread I lost 11 pounds and Irene lost 7 pounds in the first two weeks. The point is, as I said earlier, that our experience shows that you lose weight faster on this method than any other method that I know exists." Question: "That's a lot of weight to lose in such a short period of time. Irene, I see you're cutting the bread. It's strange to say, it even looks like it would fill you up quickly." Answer: "You'll soon see for yourself. Take a piece. Spread a little butter on it and enjoy. I had a slice with butter. The bread was medium brown and it was a heavy bread. It had a very appealing grainy texture and when I spread the butter on the warm slice it melted into the bread and made my mouth water. I took a bite. The delicious taste of the bread filled my mouth. You could tell that it was hearty, full of substance, chewy, and I could just tell it was good for you. Perhaps our bodies trigger an instinct that lets us know what's good or bad for us. White bread gives you an empty feeling like you're biting into cotton compared to this bread. It was indeed the best bread I ever tasted. I devoured two slices and felt very full and satisfied. I looked at the time. It was 1:25 pm." Question: "You weren't kidding were you? That bread is out of this world. It just gives you what you crave. I can't put my finger on it." Answer: "The best part is yet to come. Let me know what you experience by calling us in about 6 hours." Question: "I'll tell you my appetite is just about gone right now. I see what you mean by the build up effect. I feel like I have just eaten a full course meal. Well, thank you for your hospitality it was very nice meeting you." Answer: "You're very welcome." At 7:30 p.m. I phoned the Sette's with the results of my post bread eating hours. It went like clockwork, exactly as they had told me. I wasn't hungry for 6 hours. Their bread really is great. I am truly impressed." ***************************************************************************************************************************************** Death Rides a Slow Bus in Hunza by Jane Kinderlehrer How would you like to live in a land where cancer has not yet been invented? A land where an optometrist discovers to his amazement that everyone has perfect 20-20 vision? A land where cardiologists cannot find a single trace of coronary heart disease? How would you like to live in a land where no one ever gets ulcers, appendicitis or gout? A land where men of 80 and 90 father children, and there's nothing unusual about men and women enjoying vigorous life at the age of 100 or 120? We see a lot of hands going up. Fine. But first, you have to answer a few more questions before setting out for a place called Hunza, a tiny country hidden in the mountain passes of northwest Pakistan. Are you willing to live 20,000 feet up in the mountains, almost completely out of touch with the rest of the world? Are you ready to go outside in every kind of weather to tend you small mountainside garden, while keeping you ears open for an impending avalanche? Are you prepared to give up not only every luxury of civilization, but even reading and writing? We see a lot of hands going down. But if you want the benefits of the pure air that whips by the icy cathedrals of the Himalayan Mountains, the pure water that trickles down from glaciers formed at 25,000 feet, and the mental and spiritual peace that comes from living in a land where there is no crime, taxes, social striving or generation gaps, no banks or stores - in fact, -no money- where are you going to find it outside of Hunza? But don't give up! Not yet, because there is still one more question to be answered. That is: are you prepared to eat the kind of food the Hunzas eat? If you are, then you can rightfully expect to give yourself at lease some measure of the super health and resistance to degenerative disease which the Hunzakuts have enjoyed for 2,000 years. What kind of exotic, ill-tasting grub do these Hunza people eat, you are wondering. Strange as it may sound, virtually everything the Hunzakuts eat is delectable to the western palate, and is readily available in the United States - at least if your shopping horizons do not begin and end at the supermarket. Not only is the Hunza diet not exotic, but there's really nothing terribly mysterious about its health-promoting qualities, Everything we know about food and health, gathered both from clinical studies and the observation of scientists who have traveled throughout the world observing dietary practices and their relationship to health, tells us that it is to be expected that the Hunza diet will go a long way towards improving the total health of anyone, anywhere. The Hunza story is only on of the more dramatic examples of the miraculous health produced by a diet of fresh, natural unprocessed and unadulterated food. All systems "Go" At 20,000 Feet Maybe you're wondering: are the Hunzas really all that healthy? That was the question on the mind of cardiologists Dr. Paul D. White and Dr. Edward G. Toomey, who made the difficult trip up the mountain paths to Hunza, toting along with them a portable, battery-operated electrocardiograph. In the American Heart Journal for December, 1964, the doctors say they used the equipment to study 25 Hunza men, who were, "on fairly good evidence, between 90 and 110 years old." Blood pressure and cholesterol levels were also tested. He reported that not one of these men showed a single sign of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. An optometrist, Dr. Allen E. Banik, also made the journey to Hunza to see for himself if the people were as healthy as they were reputed to be, and published his report in Hunza Land (Whitehorn Publishing Co., 1960). "It wasn't long before I discovered that everything that I had read about perpetual life and health in this tiny country is true," Dr. Banik declared. "I examined the eyes of some of Hunza's oldest citizens and found them to be perfect." Beyond more freedom from disease, many observers have been startled by the positive side of Hunza health. Dr. Banik, for example, relates 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 intrepid visitors who have been there report their amazement at seeing men 80, 90, and 100 years old repairing the always-crumbling rocky roads, and lifting large stones and boulders to repair the retaining walls around their terrace gardens. The oldsters think nothing of playing a competitive game of volleyball in the hot sun against men 50 years their junior, and even take part in wild games of polo that are so violent they would make an ice hockey fan shudder. The energy and endurance of the Hunzakuts can probably be credited as much to what they don't eat as what they do eat. First of all, they don't eat a great deal of anything. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that the average daily food intake for Americans of all ages amounts to 3,300 calories, with 100 grams of protein, 157 grams of fat and 380 grams of carbohydrates. In contrast, studies by Pakistani doctors show that adult males of Hunza consume a little more than 1,900 calories daily, with only 50 grams of protein, 36 grams of fat, and 354 grams of carbohydrates. Both the protein and fat are largely of vegetable origin (Dr. Alexander Leaf, National Geographic, January, 1973). That amounts to just half the protein, one-third the fat, but about the same amount of carbohydrates that we Americans eat. Of course, the carbohydrate that the Hunzakuts eat is unrefined or complex carbohydrate found in fruits, vegetables and grains, while we Americans largely eat our carbohydrates in the form of nutritionless white sugar and refined flour. Needless to say, the Hunzakuts eat no processed food. Everything is as fresh as it can possibly be, and in its original unsalted state. The only "processing" consists of drying some fresh fruits in the sun, and making butter and cheese out of milk. No chemicals or artificial fertilizers are used in their gardens. In fact, it is against the law of Hunza to spray gardens with pesticides. Renee Taylor, in her book Hunza health secrets (Prentice-Hall 1964) says that the Mir, or ruler of Hunza, was recently instructed by Pakistani authorities to spray the orchards of Hunza with pesticide, to protect them from an expected invasion of insects. But the Hunzas would have none of it. They refused to use the toxic pesticide, and instead sprayed their trees with a mixture of water and ashes, which adequately protected the trees without poisoning the fruit and the entire environment. In a word, the Hunzas eat as they live - organically. Apricots Are Hunza Gold Of all their organically-grown food, perhaps their favorite, and one of their dietary mainstays, is the apricot. Apricot orchards are seen everywhere in Hunza, and a family's economic stability is measured by the number of trees they have under cultivation. They eat their apricots fresh in season, and dry a great deal more in the sun for eating throughout the long cold winter. They puree the dried apricots and mix them with snow to make ice cream. Like their apricot jam, this ice cream needs no sugar because the apricots are so sweet naturally. But that is only the beginning. The Hunzas cut the pits from the fruits, crack them, and remove the almond-like nuts. The women hand grind these kernels with stone mortars, then squeeze the meal between a hand stone and a flat rock to express the oil. The oil is used in cooking, for fuel, as a salad dressing on fresh garden greens, and even as a facial lotion ( Renee Taylor says Hunza women have beautiful complexions). The Apricot Kernel Anti-Cancer Theory Do these kernels have important protective powers which in some way play an important role in the extraordinary health and longevity of the Hunza people? The evidence suggests they very well might. Cancer and arthritis are both very rare among the Taos (New Mexico) Pueblo Indians. Their traditional beverages is made from the kernels of cherries, peaches and apricots. Robert G. Houston told PREVENTION that he enjoyed this beverage when he was in New Mexico gathering material for a book dealing with blender shakes based on an Indian recipe. Into a glass of milk or juice, he mixed a tablespoon of honey with freshly ground apricot kernels (1/4 of an ounce or two dozen kernels) which had been roasted for 10 minutes at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. It is vitally important to roast the kernels first, Houston points out, "in order to insure safety when you are using the pits in such quantities." Roasting destroys enzymes which could upset your stomach if you eat too many at one time. In any event the drink was so delicious that Houston kept having it daily. On the third day of drinking this concoction, Houston says that a funny thing happened. Two little benign skin growths on his arm, which formerly were pink had turned brown. The next day, he noticed that the growths were black and shriveled. On the seventh morning, the smaller more recent growths had vanished completely and the larger one, about the size of a grain of rice, had simply fallen off. Houston says that two of his friends have since tried the apricot shakes and report similar elimination of benign skin growths in one or two weeks. What is there in apricot pits that could produce this remarkable effect? Some foods, especially the kernels of certain fruits and grains, contain elements known as the nitrilosides (also known as amygdalin or vitamin B17) says Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., biochemist and co-discoverer of Laetrile, a controversial cancer treatment (Laetrile is the proprietary name for one nitriloside). Nitrilosides, says Dr. Krebs, are non-toxic water-soluble, accessory food factors found in abundance in the seeds of almost all fruits. They are also found in over 1,000 other plants. Wherever primitive people have been found to have exceptional health, with marked absence of malignant or degenerative disease, their diet has been shown to be high in the naturally occurring nitrilosides, Dr. Krebs maintains. "These nitrilosides just might be to cancer what vitamin C is to scurvy, what niacin is to pellagra, what vitamin B12 and folic acid are to pernicious anemia," says Dr Krebs (Cancer News Journal, May/August, 1970). There are other common foods (all seeds) which provide a goodly supply of this protective factor. Millet and buckwheat, both of which the Hunzakuts eat in abundance, are two. Lentils, mung beans and alfalfa, when sprouted, provide 50 times more nitriloside than does the mature plant, Dr. Krebs points out. And the Hunzas, as you might expect, spout all of their seeds, as well as using them in other ways. Since other essential protective elements are increased in the sprouting of such seeds, young sprouts are excellent foods which give us more life-giving values than most of us realize. Apricots Rich in Vitamin A and Iron Aside from whatever anti-cancer properties the seeds of apricots may offer, the fruit itself is exceptional in its own right. There is probably no fruit which is as nourishing as the apricot. When they are dried, and most of the moisture removed, the concentration of nutrients becomes even greater. A generous handful of dried apricots (3 1/2 ounces) is packed with nearly 11,000 units of vitamin A, or more than twice the recommended daily allowance. In fact, if this much vitamin A was put into a capsule the FDA would arrest the person selling it. because they consider this amount both "useless" and "potentially dangerous." The Hunzas eat it every day. Dried apricots also contain a great deal of iron, potassium and natural food fiber. The Style For Longer and Better Life Besides apricots, the Hunzas also grow and enjoy apples, pears, peaches, mulberries, black and red cherries, and grapes. From these fruits, the Hunzas get all the vitamin C they need, as well as the other nutritional richness of fresh fruit, including energy from the fruit sugars. From the grapes, they also make a light red wine that helps make their simple fare into more of a real "meal". The World's Freshest Bread The bread which accompanies each meal enjoyed by the Hunza's, and sometimes forms the mainstay of the meal, is called "chapatti" - and is quite different from any bread that we are used to. The grain is kept intact as long as possible, and is ground at the very last moment. The housewife grinds only as much as she needs for the next meal, and kneads it again and again with water - no yeast! She then beats it into very thin, flat pancakes similar to the tortillas of the Mexican Indians. Chapattis can be made from wheat, barley, buckwheat or millet, so although the chapatti is something new to us, the ingredients are all familiar and easily available. Sometimes the flours are mixed together and baked in several shapes, small or large, depending on the occasion. While bread baking at home in our country is practically a lost art because of the time involved, a surprising feature about chapattis is the incredibly short "baking time", if you can call it baking at all. The dough is simply placed on the grill for hardly more than a moment and it is finished. "Just long enough to grow warm and no longer taste raw," Dr. Ralph Bircher noted in his book on Hunzas published by Huber in Bernie, Switzerland. "No more effective method of preserving the health value of the grain exists and the taste is excellent even without butter or jam," Dr. Bircher notes. Here is a good source of information on vitamin B17: http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/research.html The information on this web site is provided for educational purposes only. Please see Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy. "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison Disclaimer PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. By using this site, you signify your assent to this disclaimer. If you do not agree to this disclaimer, please do not use the site. 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