One of my favorite quotes, by Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 at the Sorbonne in Paris

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Hunza Myths?

I wanted to see if I could find some good photos of the Hunza terraces that I had read about in "Healthy at 100", and I came across this guys website. He was attempting to use a lot of information that contradicted what I was reading to prove that the Hunzakuts, are not only not mainly vegetarian, but that they don't live as long as claimed. He also wanted to prove that eating more meat and animal fat was much healthier than being vegetarian. Does anyone else see the contradiction here? If he is claiming the Hunzakuts don't live as long, (based on the photos he saw, he was guessing the elders were only in their fifties), and he is claiming their diet was mostly animal based, then to me this suggests that an animal based diet is not as healthy.

Anyway, I don't want to seem too biased, and I would like to have others look at his site and tell me what they think. Maybe I am misunderstanding him. There was a lot of other interesting information about the Hunzakuts too, that I hadn't heard before. Don't know how much is fact, fiction, or speculation.

This is probably not that important. But you may enjoy it.
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