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Jay Banks <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:22:36 -0600
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I scanned in a few pages out of G. Edward Griffin's World Without Cancer,
which happened to be about the Hunza. You can read them here:

http://www.vitaminb17.org/temp/hunza.htm

For those not taking time to read the full text, here are a couple of the
more important points out of it:

* One of the first medical teams to gain access to the remote kingdom of
Hunza was headed by the world-renowned British surgeon and physician Dr.
Robert McCarrison. Writing in the January 7, 1922, issue of the Journal of
The American Medical Association, Dr. McCarrison reported: The Hunza has no
known incidence of cancer.

* In 1973, Prince Mohammed Ameen Khan, son of the Mir of Hunza, told Charles
Hillinger of the Los Angeles Times that the average life expectancy of his
people is about eighty-five years.

*  This is in puzzling contrast to the United States where, at that time,
life expectancy was about seventy-one years. Even now, more than two decades
later, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. is only about seventy-six.

* That number [the seventy-one years, for the U.S.] may sound pretty good,
but remember that it includes millions of old people who are alive but not
really living. The length of their lives may have been extended by surgery
or medication, but the quality of their lives has been devastated in the
process. They are the ones who stare blankly into space with impaired mental
capacity, or who are dependent on life-support mechanisms, or who are
confined to bed requiring round-the-clock care. There are no such cases
buried in the statistics from Hunza. Most of those people are healthy,
vigorous, and vital right up to within a few days of the end. The quality of
life is more important than the quantity. The Hunzakuts have both.

The full text also mentions the Eskimos and has a couple of interesting
things about Native American Indians, too.

My personal opinion is that if you take the information on Eskimos as truth,
then the information on the Hunza must also be seen as the truth. You can't
have your cake and eat it too, as both cases seem to have about the same
amount of scientific backing.

Jay Banks
www.vitaminb17.org
www.roadtowellsville.com

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