The Hunza cuisine also called the Burusho cuisine ( bsk, ) consists of a series of selective food and drink intake practiced by the
Burusho people
The Burusho, or Brusho, also known as the Botraj, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, as well as in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Their language, Burus ...
(also called the Hunza people) of northern
Pakistan
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that is argued by some to be unique and have long lasting effects. The diet mostly consists of raw food including nuts, fresh vegetables, dry vegetables, mint, fruits and seeds added with yogurt. The cooked meal,
daal included with
chappati, is included for dinner. It has also been advocated for being inexpensive and mostly self-producible. The Hunza lifestyle was referenced in the Biorhythm Calendar published by the American Health Institute in the later 1970s.
Proponents
The
Irish physician
Robert McCarrison is believed to have traveled to this area during the days of the
British Raj
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and tested this diet on rats in
England
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. The results are claimed to have given the rats longer lasting lives.
In his book about the Hunza, Jay Hoffman argued that by the ratio to cats, dogs and horses, humans should live up to 120 to 150 years and argues the Hunza diet to be the key to this longevity.
See also
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Longevity myths
Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but for which current scientific evidence does not suppo ...
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Pakistani cuisine
References
External links
The Truth, Myths, and Lies About the Health and Diet of the "Long-Lived" People of Hunza, Pakistan, and Hunza Bread and Pie Recipes*
ttp://thepdi.com/hunza_health_secrets.htm Health Secrets Of The HunzasDonald G. Garty, personal coach
Health Secrets Of The Hunzas{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919011901/http://www.educationalservice.net/ebooks/ebooks-001/eseb20090302_health-secrets.pdf , date=2017-09-19 Christian H. Godefroy
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