The diet of the Vikings

What ate the Vikings? There differences between what the Spaniards and Finns eat?Eat an Italian to a Swedish the same? Today I bring the Nordic diet, a form of typical food from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, which lately seems to attract many followers.

The Nordic diet is based on ingredients from the North, taking into account the health and well-being of the consumer at the same time that the sustainability of the environment. In addition, for the Nordic it is important that food seem appetizing to children, question that sometimes we don't have very much in mind as long as they eat.

The 10 principles of the Nordic diet are:

• More fruits and vegetables on a daily basis (berries, sprouts, tubers, legumes, potatoes and herbs)
• More comprehensive, such as oats, rye and barley foods
• Nordic fish from the seas and Lakes (herring, salmon)
• Eat less meat but with higher quality
• Game, wild products
• Organic products whenever possible
• Avoid food additives
• Meals based on season products
• Homemade food
• Better management to generate less waste

In the Nordic countries, the Mediterranean diet pattern has been considered as a healthier alternative to the existing diet and has been promoted to improve public health. The Nordic diet is characterized by less healthy characteristics, such as high consumption of sugar, margarine, dairy products high in fat and red meat and the low consumption of fruits and vegetables, but also this diet had their features with more positive nutritional profiles. Nordic climate restricts the diversity of crops, but there are many foods typical of these lands as berries, sprouts, apples, pears, the root vegetables, oats and rye; not to mention fish the seas and Nordic Lakes. Traditional foods which have been attributed to beneficial health effects.

With this in mind, we should think that it is easier for a Danish to eat a Berry than an orange of the Valencia Orchard, being perfectly correct in both cases. The Nordic diets original of the Nordic countries, as well as the Mediterranean diet that surround this sea, having in each different products in each land and serving different customs,which are very different in each place. Dietary recommendations should be based on the origin of the population and of the food resources that have to stock up.

This type of food, which often called Viking, is not a diet miracle or similar, though perhaps in some fashion magazines are wary it as such, by what is gaining more and more followers, is an indigenous diet of the Nordic region with numerous benefits as it has been demonstrated in a study in Danish, which saw decreased their rate of mortality. Other studies have pointed out that the Nordic diet has a beneficial effect on risk factors for diabetes type 2, as for example, obesity.

Having said that, dear readers, the best thing we can do is take advantage of the Earth where we live and the products offered by us. It is great to eat Norwegian salmon but don't know you better a hake from the Cantabrigian Sea?

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