Denmark is the black sheep of Scandinavia when it comes to old-fashioned fear of fat. Sweden, Norway and Finland enjoy good LCHF-food so much that we have experienced recent butter shortages. Meanwhile Denmark is hopelessly behind, and has even started taxing saturated fat.
Here’s some help. A reader translated my beginners guide to Danish:
I added the link to the page LCHF for beginners.
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:
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.
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.
Photo: Ole-Martin Grav / VG
More and more bizarre stories are arriving from low-carb-eating Norway. How about smuggling butter and selling it on the black market for about $70 a pound? This is not a joke, it’s apparently already happened. The picture above shows smuggled butter being confiscated recently.
In Sweden the butter shortage that plagued us during the fall is now under control, due to increased imports. But who knows what will happen in 2012? The world’s production of butter may need to be increase to satisfy the ever-increasing Scandinavian demand. And what will happen as more countries stop fearing natural fat?
Because of the popularity of LCHF diets in Scandinavia Norway is experiencing a severe shortage of butter. There isn’t enough to prepare all the traditional Christmas food.
Danish breakfast TV has now started a large rescue operation. They’re sending at least 1000 packets of butter to neighboring Norway.
The LCHF revolution has so far only spread from Sweden to Norway and Finland. Danes still fear natural saturated fat, for no good reason. But that’s ok. It means more delicious butter for the rest of us.
A new OECD report shows that the number of obese people in most developed countries has doubled or tripled between the 1980s and 2009. This disaster coincides with the fear of fat.
Interestingly Norway and Sweden are among the slimmest countries in 2009. Considering the LCHF revolution going on in these countries (butter shortage and everything) the future looks promising.
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The Swedish LCHF revolution is spreading to our neighbors Norway and Finland. Like Sweden they are now experiencing shortages of real butter.
Here is a local paper from Norway yesterday. The big text reads: “The stores in Troms COMPLETELY OUT of butter and cream”. Also in the green section: “The Low Carb trend continues in full force”!
The black sheep of Scandinavia is Denmark. They fear fat so much they even started taxing saturated fat (like butter) last month. Soon we may see diverging obesity rates: Sweden, Norway, Finland going down and Denmark going up. That could be a good lesson to the world.
Swedish butter
The Swedish Low Carb High Fat revolution keeps advancing. Newspapers are now reporting on a shortage of butter in Sweden that will probably last for the rest of the year. Production can’t keep up with the rising demand.
This is good news. At least as long as I still have butter in my own refrigerator.
Do you want to eat real food (as much as you like) and improve your health and weight? It may sound too good to be true, but LCHF (Low Carb, High Fat) is a method that has been used for 150 years. Now, modern science backs it up with proof that it works.
There is no weighing your food, no counting, no bizarre “meal replacements,” no pills. There is just real food and common sense. And all the advice here is 100 percent free. [...]
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