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LCHF saw a “spike in searches” on Google during 2011, according to a press release from Google Sweden. I think 2012 will see even more interest, as a number of high profile books on the subject are released.
As the obsolete fear of fat fades away the future looks ever brighter. Who wouldn’t want to eat as much real good food as they want, while losing weight and regaining health?
I love the satirical humor on The Colbert Report. And the ever-rising popularity of LCHF in Scandinavia is a good thing too. Combine the two and we get a perfect TV moment.
Can’t see the video above in your location? Here’s a short part of it on YouTube.
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.
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.
The Swedish food revolution ended up in the Financial Times two days ago. Good thing, because England is the most obese country in Europe. Unfortunately they still fear natural fat. But perhaps some people will now google for LCHF and rethink that failed old idea.
Yesterday saw another milestone in the Swedish food revolution. The biggest science show on Swedish TV had a long segment on the LCHF movement and the diet advice to type 2 diabetics.
They followed a group of type 2 diabetics during a course in LCHF, documenting their spectacular health improvements over three months. They interviewed experts and dug through the science, concluding that there is no scientific evidence for the conventional high carb advice to diabetics, and no proof that eating LCHF is dangerous. In fact the smaller studies that exist only document improvements in health from eating LCHF.
After this show my Swedish blog (translated by Google) had another new visitor record: 22 712 visits in one day. It just keeps going up. The revolution is spreading and it’s probably just a small taste of the huge world-wide paradigm shift we will see during this decade. A health revolution.
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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.
The LCHF revolution in Sweden is starting to spread to our neighbors in Finland:
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