Nutrition experts are passionate about the Nordic diet. As the name implies, the Nordic diet includes local and traditional foods from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Typically, the Nordic diet includes whole-grain cereals such as rye, barley and oats; berries and other fruits; vegetables, especially cabbages and roots and vegetables such as potatoes and carrots; fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and herring; and beans [ Beans and peas].

Many call it the new Nordic diet, which has become a new food culture developed in 2009-13, with a focus on food, health and the environment. The new Nordic diet is based on Nordic ingredients but adapts to the rest of the world.

Contrary to the Mediterranean diet, including olive oil, it is good for healthy rapeseed oil [canola oil] with high monounsaturated fat content. It also contains some alpha-linolenic acid, a plant-based omega-3 fatty acid similar to the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish.

Rapeseed oil can help reduce the risk of bad LDL cholesterol and heart disease and stroke. Rapeseed oil may better reduce bad cholesterol and improve heart health. The diet emphasizes cutting processed foods and most high-fat meats such as sausages or bacon.

The health benefits of the Nordic diet –

The health-related benefits are listed below:

• An important review by the World Health Organization [WHO] found that diets in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe can reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

• Diet may also help to lose weight. A study by the University of Eastern Finland also found that dietary downregulation can regulate the expression of inflammation-related genes, which is thought to be a factor that causes many chronic health problems and plays a role in obesity.

• Processed foods are more delicious, resulting in overeating and weight gain. Since the Nordic diet no longer emphasizes the consumption of processed foods, it prevents overeating and the resulting weight gain.

• Eating more plant-based diets is more environmentally friendly because greenhouse gas emissions are much less. About 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock production. It has been reported that factory farming for meat production contributes more to global warming than all airplanes, trains, buses and cars.

critical moment –

The Mediterranean diet is considered to be the best health benefit so far. Now, in terms of its health benefits, there is another dietary mark in the culinary world. This is the Nordic diet.

In many ways, it is very similar to the Mediterranean diet, but relies on rapeseed [rapeseed] oil instead of olive oil. Its product type selection is also different, these products are grown locally, depending on the climate, soil and water of the area.

Therefore, it includes both the health and well-being of the individual as well as the sustainability of the environment.

Nordic diet and its benefits was originally published on Spring