THE LIFE OF HUNZA VALLEY TRIBES

The world is always surprising the human being with strange mysteries, one of them we talk about is Hunja Tribes. The Hunza tribe, also known as the Burusho people,

Many people say that they are the most beautiful and healthy people in the world.

The Hunja tribes resides in Pakistan’s Hunja, Chitral, Nagar, and also in the valley of the Gilgit-Baltistan. However, their origin is considered to be north-western India and a smaller group of over 350 Burusho people also reside in Jammu and Kashmir and are famous across the world for their life expectancy and their anti-aging

The Burusho are known for their love of music and dance, along with their progressive views towards education and women.

The more interesting fact is that these women live up to 160 years and have the power to bear children until they are 65 years old. Might sound strange, but it is true!

The Hunzas believe they are descended from Macedonian soldiers who followed alexander on his eight-year march to India and stayed.

Since the partition of India in 1947, the Indian Burusho community have not been in contact with the Pakistani Burusho. The Government of India has granted the Burusho community Scheduled Tribe status, as well as reservation, and therefore, "most members of the community are in government jobs. The Burusho people of India speak Burushashki.

A variety of Y-DNA haplogroups are seen among certain random samples of people in Hunza. Most frequent among these are R1a1 and R2a, which are associated with Indo-European peoples and the Bronze Age migration into South Asia c. 3000 BC, and probably originated in either South Asia, Central Asia or Iran and Caucasus.

Healthy living advocate J. I. Rodale wrote a book called The Healthy Hunzas in 1948 that asserted that the Hunzas, noted for their longevity and many centenarians, were long-lived because they consumed healthy organic foods, such as dried apricots and almonds, and had plenty of fresh air and exercise. He often mentioned them in his prevention magazine as exemplary of the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. John Clark stayed among the Hunza people for 20 months and in his 1956 book Hunza - Lost Kingdom of the Himalayas writes: "I wish also to express my regrets to those travellers whose impressions have been contradicted by my experience. On my first trip through Hunza, I acquired almost all the misconceptions they did. The Healthy Hunzas, the Democratic Court, The Land Where There Are No Poor, and the rest and only long-continued living in Hunza revealed the actual situations". Regarding the misconception about Hunza people's health, Clark also writes that most of his patients had malaria, dysentery, worms, trachoma, and other health conditions easily diagnosed and quickly treated. In his first two trips he treated 5,684 patients.

A widely repeated claim of remarkable longevity of the Hunza people has been refuted as a longevity myth, citing a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women, although with a high standard deviation. There is no evidence that Hunza life expectancy is significantly above the average of poor, isolated regions of Pakistan. Claims of health and long life were almost always based solely on the statements by the local mir (king). An author who had significant and sustained contact with Burusho people, John Clark, reported that they were overall unhealthy.

Clark and Lorimer reported frequent violence and starvation in Hunza.