![]() ![]() In November, 1921, English physician, Sir Robert McCarrison, after visiting the Hunza valley, came to the United States and delivered a lecture titled “Faulty Food in Relation to Gastro-Intestinal Disorders.”ĭr. He would have fit right in with these sturdy mountain people in the Himalayas, where they commonly live healthy lives into their 90s without any chronic diseases. My great grandfather would have loved the Hunza lifestyle. Years later, when I read about the long-living Hunza people in Pakistan, I thought of him in his late 80s: thin and wiry, but with the energy of someone 30 years younger, he taught me how to chop wood with an axe. A hobby herbalist, he lived a healthy life and took care of himself until the day he dropped dead of a heart attack. My great grandfather in Norway, however, who lived until he was 99 years old, only went to the hospital once, when he was 75. Half of Americans age 65 or older have one or more chronic diseases costing taxpayers more than a trillion dollars a year in medical care. ![]() Statistics show we are living longer, in large part thanks to decreased infant mortality rates, but we are also spending longer times in the hospitals before we die. We are living longer today than ever before, but we are also spending more time dying.
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