The Healthy Hunzas
Abstract
Popular interest in food-health relationships as influenced by the soil in which the food was grown began in this country in 1921, when the great English physician Sir Robert McCarrison delivered the Sixth Mellon Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, on "Faulty Food in Relation to Gastrointestinal Disorders." The salient points of this lecture centered around McCarrison's observation on the marvelous health and robustness of the Hunzas, who dwell in a valley on the...