G. Edward Griffin: We like sweet and that is the beginning of the problem or least the
answer to the question, why does modern man have cancer and primitive man does
not?
There's a part of the answer.
Well anyway, this substance is called amygdalin.
It's well known.
It's been in the pharmacopeia for almost a hundred years.
I think it was first isolated and described in Germany and it's been used for medicinal
purposes for a long, long time.
Amygdalin is a substance that is bitter, and it's found in grasses and in seeds primarily.
They have found that in those cultures, those places
in the world, where the diet, the native diet is rich in
amygdalin foods, the cancer rate is very low if not zero.
You compare the diet to the same food or you compare that diet to the diet of the people
in modern societies where cancer rates are high, and you find
there's practically no amygdalin at all.
It's just a complete eye opener.
What are those cultures?
Hunzas I think you mentioned a moment ago are probably
the best known, from a little kingdom up in Northwest
Pakistan.
It's a very idyllic place, I'm told.
The story Shangri-La, they say, was actually written based
upon Hunza as the model.
Everybody knows the story of Shangri-La.
Well Hunza's pretty much like that.
It's very remote.
If you risk your life getting into it, and I always thought I wanted to go visit Hunza
after I read about it until some photographs of these
deep ravines that you have to walk across on a rope bridge
and it's about a mile and a half straight down, go along the cliffs like this, you know,
I said no, I think I'll just read about it.
Ty Bollinger: I'll read about it.
Yeah.
G. Edward Griffin: But anyway that is really the way it was.
I guess they have a road in now.
The people in Hunza never had cancer but afterwards when they come out
of Hunza and they go into other countries and they start
eating the same foods that those people eat they come down with cancer like everyone else.
In Hunza, at least in the beginning when all this research
was done, there was no such thing as money.
It's kind of a primitive society and a man's wealth was
measured by the number of apricot trees he owns.
People eat apricot seeds there, a little sweeter
than the ones in California but still loaded with amygdalin and
they eat them like candy.
It was like a delicacy there.
Well there's just one example.
There are other cultures, the Bilcabamba's, the Navajo and
Hopi Indians, the aboriginal Eskimos, all of those cultures
have zero or very low cancer rates.
If you look at the native diet, in every case their foods are at least
200 times, if not more, rich in amygdalin than anything that you would find in a major
city or even in the countryside in our western world.
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