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What they don’t eat What the Hunzakuts do not eat or drink, should be of great concern to us and we should think seriously of eliminating the following items from our diet: refined salt, margarine, white sugar, white bread, white flour, refined cereals, sodas, cold drinks, flavourings, colourings, preservatives, red meat, tinned foods, non-organic meat and non-organic eggs.
Hunza health secret and secret of longevity #3
Hunza water
It is generally accepted that the water the hunzas drink plays a major role in their great health and longevity. This water comes from the melting of the glaciers from the nearby mountains.
These glaciers are hundreds of thousand years old and grind the mountainous rock into extremely fine particles. In turn the fine particles of rock are suspended in this water and is called glacial milk because of its cloudy appearance by being so loaded with these minerals.
Coming from glacial mountain streams and waterfalls this water carries a negative charge or negative ions and is called “living water.” This results in the water having an oxygen reduction potential and acts as an antioxidant in the body with the ability to mop up free radicals. Also the minerals in the water carry a negative charge, which make the minerals easily absorbable.
In this way, by drinking this water the Hunzakuts bodies are saturated with minerals which provides them with extraordinary vitality.
Another major factor is that their crops are also irrigated with this colloidal mineral water and thus unlike Western soils, hunza soils are not depleted of minerals. Plants are unable to manufacture one single mineral, so that when soils are depleted, the plants we eat will also be depleted of minerals.
Insufficiencies of essential minerals in our diet will lead to sickness and premature aging.
If you visit my website I will provide you with a link to where you can purchase this mineral saturated hunza water.
Experiments on rats using hunza diet and modern processed diet In 1927 Dr. McCarrison was appointed Director of Nutrition Research in India under the Research Fund Association. For his work and experiments he chose albino rats.
For the first phase of his experiment Dr. McCarrison chose healthy rats. He placed the rats in good conditions, with fresh air, sunlight, comfort and cleanliness. He chose their diet from foods eaten regularly by the Hunza people. This included hunza bread made of wholemeal flour, lightly smeared with fresh butter; organic vegetables, milk; a small ration of organic meat with bones once a week and an abundance of water.
In this experiment almost 1,200 rats were watched from birth to the twenty-seventh month, an age in the rat which corresponds to that of about fifty years in a man. At this stage the Hunza-diet-fed rats were killed and carefully examined. McCarrison's report was remarkable:
"During the past two and a quarter years there has been no case of illness in this 'universe' of albino rats, no death from natural causes in the adult stock, and but for a few accidental deaths no infantile mortality. Both clinically and at post-mortem, examination of this stock has been shown to be remarkably free from disease. It may be that some of them have cryptic disease of one kind or another, but if so, I have failed to find either clinical or microscopical evidence of it."
His experiment did not however stop there. Next he took DISEASED rats and placed them too on the Hunza diet. They all became well. Then he took batches of rats and placed them in clean, comfortable surroundings and fed them the food of modern processed western diet. The rats were soon plagued with diseases and miseries of many kinds (much like so many people are today). Over two thousand rats fed on modern processed diet developed eye ailments, ulcers, boils, bad teeth, crooked spines, loss of hair, amenia, skin disorders, heart, kidney and glandular weaknesses and a multitude of gastrointestinal disorders.
In later experiments, McCarrison gave a set of rats the diet of the poorer classes of England that consisted of white bread, margarine, sweetened tea, white sugar, tinned meats and inexpensive jams and jellies. On this diet, not only did the rats develop all kinds of disease conditions, but they became nervous wrecks: "They were nervous and apt to bite their attendants, they lived unhappily together and by the sixteenth day of the experiment they began to kill and eat the weaker ones amongst them."
These experiments clearly show that diet has a huge impact on mental, emotional and physical health.
Final thoughts
Clearly we can see that diet is of paramount importance in preventing illness and treating disease.
By saturating our body with organic, mineral and vitamin rich foods we can not only reverse disease but totally avoid future illness. This is clearly proven by the diet of the hunza people and the experiments of the albino rats.
Even though it isn’t possible for us to go live in the Himalayan Mountains, what we can do it is invest our money into organic healthy foods simular in principle to the hunzas.
Author's bio: Jeremy Carew-Reid is a natural healer in Ayurvedic medicine. On his website http://www.CureChronicFatigue.com you can learn how you how you can heal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. His website contains a wealth of free health articles on everything you need to know about healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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