In recent years, with the development of medicine and nutrition, a dietary pattern has been recognized as a healthy eating pattern. Speaking of which, you may say that it is the Mediterranean diet model or the American DASH diet model. Everyone is wrong about this, but the dietary pattern I'm talking about today is a new healthy eating pattern that has just been recognized over the years, especially for lipid health.
Speaking of which, let's not be happy, this new healthy eating model has nothing to do with our traditional Chinese diet model of frying, frying, steaming and stewing. It is a dietary pattern far away in Northern Europe, which we can simply refer to as the "Nordic diet" model. This dietary pattern is conducive to reducing blood lipids, blood sugar and blood sugar, reducing the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and is also conducive to weight loss. It is a dietary model that has been increasingly recognized by the human medical community and the nutrition community in recent years. So, what exactly is the Nordic diet referred to here? Today Dr. Zhang carefully came to tell you about this topic.
First, what is the Nordic dietary model
Speaking of Northern Europe, in fact, it is simply Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland these five countries. The reason why they are valued in the medical community is mainly because the life expectancy of people in these 5 regions is very long, and it can be said that they are the longest-lived regions in the world. Then, their dietary patterns have therefore been valued and studied.
The Nordic medicine model is actually a diet rich in dairy products, berries, vegetables, marine fish, whole grains, rapeseed oil, and some lean meats. Over the past 10 years, the Nordic dietary pattern has been considered an extremely healthy one. Moreover, some studies have also proposed that this dietary pattern is conducive to reducing the occurrence of high blood lipids, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and also helps to lose weight.
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2. The latest research
Recently, a researcher named Dragstedy at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark joined forces with Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland in Northern Europe to conduct this research. The study selected 200 obese people over the age of 50 in northern Europe, who were at high risk of hyperlipidemia, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and asked them to adhere to the Nordic dietary habits, and it was found that the blood lipids and blood sugar in these people had significantly improved compared with before, and some of the people who participated in the study were thinner than before.
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Why is nordic eating patterns healthier?
There are many reasons behind this, on the one hand, the Nordic diet is diverse, and each food is a healthy ingredient that is widely recognized at this stage; on the other hand, some of these different food sources are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as marine fish, flax oil, rapeseed oil and other ingredients rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Dr. Zhang Zhiying told you in the previous popular science materials that unsaturated fatty acids are beneficial to the human body, and unsaturated fatty acids can also be divided into monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and monounsaturated fatty acids can be synthesized by the human body, and polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential and cannot be synthesized by the human body, which requires exogenous intake. Some foods in the Nordic diet, namely marine fish, flax oil, rapeseed oil, these ingredients, are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are very good for the human body and very good for maintaining the health of our body's blood lipids. Therefore, the blood lipids of people who adhere to the Nordic dietary model are healthier.
In fact, this Nordic diet European style is not only good for blood lipids, but also conducive to weight loss. People's weight is reduced, and blood lipids often improve, so it seems that the Nordic dietary model does have an impact on the improvement of human health in many ways.
In fact, Dr. Zhang just wants to arouse the Attention of the Chinese Public to Healthy Eating Habits through the Nordic Diet model, not just to tell everyone that eating a certain food will definitely lead to longevity. After all, human life expectancy is prolonged, in addition to diet, there are also environmental, spiritual and other factors. Are you right?