Susie Burrell, Sydney specialist fat loss dietitian regularly recommends Mountain bread for her fat loss plans for both children and adult.

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What's a healthy diet?

In recent years, nutritionists and doctors have pointed to a diet mainly consisting of raw and unprocessed foods as setting the benchmark in healthy living. Free from additives and preservatives, Mountain Bread consists of only three ingredients…flour, water and salt

Two cultures that have achieved recognition for extreme longevity and health are the Hunza people of Northern Pakistan and the Sardinians from Italy. These groups boast a higher rate of centenarians and suffer a much lower incidence of degenerative diseases that kill thousands of people in other parts of the industrialized world. Both these groups of people have one thing in common, they eat a simple paper thin bread as a mainstay of their diet.

Where does paper thin bread come from?

 Paper thin bread has been around for thousands of years. Traditionally from the mountains of lebanon the recipe for this delicious bread has been passed down from generation to generation. The mountain people of Lebanon bake a delicious paper-thin dark bread called Saj or markouk, meaning "stretched " or "patted". The women who make this bread are artists at their craft. The technique of manipulating the loaf of dough so that it becomes a paper thin circle several feet in diameter can be mastered only after years of practice. Mothers teach their daughters. The mountain bread maker starts her baking in the same way as the town woman. When the dough has risen for the second time she moves to a sheltered spot outdoors where she has a fire burning in a ground hearth. The bread is baked on a concave sheet of black iron called a sajj. The woman sits crosslegged before a low wooden table, shaping the dough balls into rounded loaves with a quick motion of her hands. She takes them one by one between her palms, patting and pressing the dough as she shifts it deftly from one hand to the other. Her arms move faster and faster as she pushes the dough out into a widening circular shape. When the dough is paper- thin and almost as big as the sajj she flips it onto a round pillow and streches it to an even circular shape. Then she flips the sheet of dough quickly onto the sajj. It bakes in several minutes. When it is slightly browned she peels it from the baking pan, and lays it upon the stack in a cloth lined basket. Mountain Bread Pty Ltd strictly adheres to the original recipe ensuring that customers continue to enjoy this unique bread.

Who are the Hunza?

The Hunza people, or Burusho, are indigenous to the Hunza Valley which is 2,438 metres (7,999 feet) above sea level. The valley is located in Pakistan's Northern Areas. The Hunza people claim to have a high life expectancy of 90 years. Some claim to live up to 120 years or more, maintaining good health throughout their lives. The Hunza tribe has almost no occurrence of cancer or hereditary illness, and has experienced no known cases of obesity. The Hunza people are vegetarians and their diet consists of unprocessed foods including: - Raw fruit and vegetables in summer; grain sprouts, dried apricots and goats cheese during winter. The Hunza diet appears to be the main reason for the Hunzas longevity according to a series of experiments conducted by a Scottish physician, McCarrison.

Hunza bread is made from natural wheat flour. It is rich in phosphorous, potassium, iron, calcium, manganese and other minerals, as nothing has been destroyed in the preparation from the wheat. Thus it contains the essential nourishment of the grain.

Who are Sardinians?