Long Live the Apricot Eater

Apricots! A quick, easy, yummy snack. And also very good for you. So glad Mackenzie loves them.

Apricots originated in the high mountains of Central Asia. The Hunza people, who live in the mountains of Northern Pakistan, are the longest-living and healthiest people in the world. According to doctors and researchers who studied the Hunza in the 50′s and 60′s, they have 100% perfect vision and diseases like cancer, coronary heart diseases, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and even appendicitis and gout are unknown.

The Hunza are strong and active and many live to the ripe old age of 100 and some even to 120. Surprisingly their diet is quite simple and the only difference is that they do not eat animal fats. Their diet consists of fresh or dried fruits and nuts, particularly apricots and apricot kernels and their primary source of oil is apricot oil.

Apricot seeds are a source of vitamin B17 and are often used in alternative medicine for cancer therapies. SEEDS MUST BE BAKED BEFORE EATING as they are otherwise poisonous if taken in large quantities.

Apricots are like a mini natural drug store. One handful of apricots contains 100% of the recommended daily allowance of Beta-carotene, an antioxidant which our bodies turn into Vitamin A.

Other benefits include:

• prevention of plaque-deposits in the arteries
• strengthens immune system
• beneficial to eyes, skin, hair, gums and other glands
• fights anemia
• natural diuretic
• normalizing blood pressure and heart function
• helps to prevent osteoporosis by maintaining estrogen levels

These superfruits were also the #1 choice of NASA for astronaut provision.

To buy apricot seeds and other apricot products visit apricot seeds.

Candy from Our Father’s Farm wrote me this additional info on apricot seeds:

“Baking them actually destroys the enzymes and then they are no longer as effective.  They are not
actually poisonous, but people may assume so because they contain cyanide. However, it is a naturally occurring cyanide that is only harmful to the cancer cell and not the rest of the body.”