What’s the Nordic Diet

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What is Nordic Diet and How to start Nordic Diet

We’ve all heard about the success of the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes a primarily plant-based meal plan and other eating habits reflecting those of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, like depending heavily on olive oil and red wine. But a new diet is focusing on an area of the world further west Scandinavia.

The big sister of the Mediterranean Diet, this new eating plan is actually a really good one hear all about the nordic diet in this segment.

Diets have ceased to be regarded as an extreme measure somebody would take to lose weight or to improve serious health issues. Instead, they have become part of a healthy lifestyle and a rewarding effort in terms of increased physical energy, brain performance and hopefully, life expectancy. With a growing number of options available, choosing your diet might turn into a difficult endeavour. To make it easier, this summary aims to help you decide if the Nordic Diet is the one for you..
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Dianne Schneider, RD at Bethesda North Hospital talks with Local 12’s Liz Bonis about the Nordic Diet.

The Scandi Sense Diet.
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The name Scandi Sense is inspired by the notion of ‘common sense’. It is no coincidence that I have chosen this particular name; as well as being simple and straightforward, Scandi Sense is based on common sense in relation to the composition and amount of food we choose to eat..
Scandi Sense is intended to be suitable for everyone, regardless of size and weight, and is therefore more a lifestyle than a diet. The basic idea is that you eat a Scandi Sense version of the food you usually have. This means that you won’t have to overhaul your diet entirely – it will just need adjusting. This makes it more likely that the lifestyle will last in the long run..
Scandi Sense isn’t a ready-made diet plan, but some simple principles to live by – principles that will give you the right balance of nutrients and ensure that you maintain a stable blood sugar level throughout the day. The Scandi Sense diet is based on the official dietary advice of the Danish Health Board. The basic idea is that if you fill yourself up with balanced, healthy meals, you won’t be so easily tempted by food that will make you gain weight. You also get a mental tool, namely the ‘meal-boxes’, to help you fit yummy things such as a piece of cake into your diet..
Handfuls and meal-boxes.
You will use the palms of your hands to measure the amount of food you should eat at each meal. You can eat up to four handfuls of food for each meal, and if they are properly balanced you will easily feel full..
The Scandi Sense meal-boxes are both a practical and a mental tool to help you keep track of your meals. Each meal-box represents a meal. You should imagine that you have three meal-boxes a day available, each filled with your four handfuls of food plus 1–3 tablespoons of fat..
If there is sometimes a little extra food in a meal-box, or maybe food that wasn’t planned, just close that meal-box and carry on, without beating yourself up or feeling guilty..
Think about people who have always had a healthy weight. They also eat too much food, or too many calories, on occasion, and they do so without reproaching themselves. You have to get away from thinking, ‘Now it’s all ruined, so it doesn’t really matter’, because it is exactly that reaction that causes the failure of so many attempts to eat healthily..
If you have strayed from the plan at a meal, rather than stressing over it, it is a much better strategy to be proactive and get straight back into a good rhythm with the next meal-box..
Three meals a day.
There is no evidence to suggest that it is better to eat six times a day rather than three. Some people thrive on more meals daily, while others are fine with fewer..
But there is no doubt that the risk of eating too many calories is greater when you eat several times a day..
With three daily meals, it is easier to keep blood sugar levels stable, especially when meals are sensibly planned using the Sense Meal-Box Model. Following this model, the metabolism doesn’t drop significantly when you cut down on the number of meals. It is healthy for the body to have a break between meals, not only for blood sugar levels, but also for your mental wellbeing and your intestinal system.

The Nordic diet consists of foods traditionally sourced in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The diet has been linked to decreased risk for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes.