Swedish and Danish bread sales hit by changing consumer habits, says analyst

Unbelievable times in Sweden right now, low carb has never been this popular. Lara Dolson may be right:

Is Sweden Leading Other Countries to Give up Carbs?

Just this week these three things happened:

• The biggest news show reported on a new survey ordered by the government agency behind the official low fat guidelines. It showed that three percent of Swedes thought that eating large amounts of fat was good for your health. Another 29 percent did not think that fat should be avoided any more. So one in three Swedes like fat now! The old fear of fat is melting away.

• We had a debate on LCHF on the biggest TV-channel, featuring me and a celebrity eating LCHF. It went well.

• One of the biggest papers in Sweden has a 100 page supplement this weekend called “All about LCHF”.

It’s crazy. I haven’t even mentioned yet that the highest medical authority in Sweden, the National Board of Health, late last year started recommending a “modest” low carb diet for diabetics. More on that later!

We’ve even had a butter shortage recently. And low carb books are currently outselling all other health books by far. Low carb is winning in Sweden.

During the last weeks me and my brother have been working hard updating the design of my Swedish blog. It has around 25 000 visits a day now, showing the massive popularity of LCHF in my home country.

If you’re curious you can have a look at the Swedish blog translated by Google. Once we’re done it’s time for a similar update to this blog.

I’ve done more than a hundred talks on diet and health in recent years. I calculate that more than 10 000 people have listened to them. A good start, but there was a lot of work and travel involved.

Four months ago I uploaded this video of my presentation from the AHS conference in Los Angeles. It’s been viewed more than 60 000 times on YouTube already. Just one talk has reached far more people than all those before it combined.

Obviously there are big (infinite?) possibilities here. There will be more videos this year, specially designed to be shown online. I’m studying how to do it well.

More videos from Diet Doctor

Here is a single minute from 44 days of travel through 11 countries. All focusing on the food you can eat. Fascinating and very well produced.

This made me think of the tiny roasted birds I once ate in Malawi. What’s the strangest thing you have eaten while travelling?

OT: There are two more equally good short videos from the trip: MOVE och LEARN.

Micke on the Swedish blog Live Strong has been eating LCHF and training hard for a year. Obviously it has produced some nice results:

Check out his blog translated by Google

I used to play poker online a few years back. Playing good poker demands total concentration and quite a bit of knowledge. You need to be a lot sharper than the average opponent.

Some people still claim that the brain needs a lot of carbs every day, otherwise it will shut down (funny, I know). They also think that low carb diets make people depressed, tired, sleepy and slows the thought processes. Some even believe diets high in fat shrink the brain!

According to these wild (and mostly disproven) ideas it should be impossible to have an intellectual career on low carb. For example playing poker professionally.

This turns out to be false. I was contacted by a successful poker pro who’ve been eating LCHF for a while. His experience is the opposite of what some think. He experiences increased mental performance, especially by being able to focus for a long time.

The Road to the Poker Dream: LCHF

When I linked to this on my Swedish blog some commentors noted that LCHF diets were actually pretty popular in people discussing poker online. For the same reason: More durable mental focus.

Let’s talk healthy low carb living!

The other day I was interviewed via Skype again for Jimmy Moore’s excellent podcast. It’s time for his super “Encore” week on the LLVLC show. Here’s the interview along with answers to plenty of reader questions:

‘Encore Week’ 2012 – Swedish LCHF Physician Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt

How’s it going with the Norwegian butter shortage situation? This recent offer from a Norwegian paper might be a clue:

Buy a new Audi R8 for 2 million Norwegian crowns ($360K) and you get a pound of butter for free.