How about losing 5 KG (10 pounds)? And at the same time bring your blood pressure drastically down, heal inflammation, type 2 diabetes, and arthritis.
All in six months and all while enjoying the delicious eating style of the Nordic Vikings?
This is exactly what 181 obese people did in a study from the University of Copenhagen. And was followed up again and proven in a Finnish study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
From around 800 AD to 1100 AD the Vikings ruled the northern hemisphere. Although in many ways barbarians, they were mostly free of the modern diseases with which we are faced.
One reason is that back then there were no chemicals in the food. So even if fresh foods were hard to come by in the winter time, they had to use measures other than freezers and preservatives to have supplies for the winter.
Fish was available fresh all year round, so that’s the base of the Nordic diet. Whole grains such as spelt and rye were easy to store as well as root vegetables, berries, and nuts. Other vegetables were plentiful in the summer so we can add them to the diet.
The bottom line is that nothing was heavily processed or refrigerated. The same principle making the caveman, Adkins, Mediterranean, and any other diet a healthy alternative. Call it what you want, but all these diets share one common theme- eliminate preservatives and processing.
The original Danish study proved how healthy the Nordic diet is. It contributes to pretty much all levels of health from weight loss to blood pressure, and inflammation diseases such as type 2 diabetes and arthritis.
But the Finnish study dug deeper and showed exactly why it’s so healthy. The Finnish researchers found that the diet manages several types of genes that cause inflammation. And since inflammation is one of the biggest health issues of the Western world, this is a biggie.
Chronic inflammation puts extreme stress on you since your own immune cells begin to attack other cells in your body. This causes plaque buildup in the arteries, joint pain (arthritis), and type 2 diabetes when inflammation attacks your pancreas and liver.
Maybe worst of all, it adds to the overall stress in your system. The single cause of high blood pressure. You can have mental stress, emotional stress, sensory stress and now with inflammation, physical stress.
To tackle high blood pressure, you must lower the overall stress level (production of stress hormones production). The easiest, and most effective way to do this is by using a set of three easy exercises.
Learn more about the three blood pressure exercises and try them out for yourself here…>
I highly recommend trying to Nordic diet if you suffer any chronic diseases. To reverse them, you may, however, need a more solid, focused strategy.
Here are the strategies I recommend for:
Overcoming IBD
Multiple Sclerosis
Banishing Bronchitis
Gum Disease Gone
Overcoming Onychomycosis
Neuropathy No More
The Prostate Protocol
Brain Booster
Ironbound
Solution for Shingles
The Bone Density Solution
The Ultimate Healing Protocol
The Parkinson's Protocol
The Chronic Kidney Disease Solution
Overthrowing Anxiety
The Fatty Liver Solution
The Hypothyroidism Solution
The End of Gout
The Blood Pressure Program
The Oxigized Cholesterol Strategy
Stop Snoring And Sleep Apnea Program
The Arthritis Strategy
The Vertigo & Dizziness Program
The 3-Step Diabetes Strategy
Hemorrhoids Healing Protocol
The Erectile Dysfunction Master
Weight Loss Breeze
The IBS Program
The Insomnia Program
The Migraine and Headache Program
The Neck Pain Solution
The Menopause Solution
The Ejaculation Master
The TMJ Solution
The Acid Reflux Solution
The Fibromyalgia Solution
The Psoriasis Strategy
Of course, plenty of fish, berries, nuts and grain makes great sense. But don't forget that back then, life expectancy for human beings (not just vikings) was about 28 years and that one in four pregnancies ended in death for the mother-to-be and that two out of three successful live births failed to survive to one year. Our diets today may not look that flash, but the proof of the pudding, so to speak, seems to suggest otherwise.
I believe our improved longevity and increased infant and mother survival rates are more accurately attributed to no longer living a harsh survival existence, hygiene and medical advancements and ready access to abundant food and not the quality of that food. In particular, modern processed foods, but also the nutrient starved whole foods currently found in most grocery stores.
Absolutely correct diet play an important role in the maintenance of health and living.
In the old days they did not have junk food or fast food. That’s why they were healthier.
@James: Excellent points. However, perhaps not really fair or relevant. Back then, there was little understanding of disease, and often living conditions were disgusting: squalid, unhygienic, cold and/or polluted (by smoke, waste, excrement, vermin etc). They may not have died of modern diseases, but, obviously, they died from many other causes, including war and violence. And, if it weren’t for modern medical intervention and hygiene, the death rates you quote would today probably be higher still, weakened as we are by poor diet and lack of exercise (and by past medical intervention => survival of the weak => breeding of the weak => weakening of the gene pool.) Take the “pudding” back to 900AD and let’s see how many of us would even survive a year. As a farmer’s son, I know that to keep one’s stock strong, new DNA needs to be introduced regularly. Which is probably why we are here at all…