DIET FOR 100 HEALTHY HAPPY YEARS: Health Secrets from the Caucasus

by Morvyth McQueen-Williams, MD and Barbara Apisson, edited by Norman Ober (1977)

" ... just as the actual number of Armenians, or part Armenians is lost in centuries of intermarriage, of intermingling as invaders swept across this attractive corridor for conquest, so too is the precise history of dietary habits mixed and melded and adapted among the forty or more blended peoples of the Caucasus. But the strong empirical evidence is that survival was taught by the survivors and that the longevity diet is a direct development of the ancient Armenians."