Thread: The Lutefisk Diet?

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Nordic diet associated with reduction in all cause mortality over 12 year period
Although a Mediterranean diet has been recently popularized as a means of living a healthier and longer life, a report published in the April, 2011 Journal of Nutrition reveals that a greater intake of traditional healthy Nordic foods also improves survival over a given period of time.

Anja Olsen of the Danish Cancer Society and colleagues evaluated data from 23,274 men and 27,016 women who participated in the Diet, Cancer and Health Study, which was designed to assess the role of diet in the development of cancer. Subjects included in the current study were free of cancer, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease upon enrollment. Questionnaires completed at the beginning of the study were scored for the intake of fish, cabbages, whole grain rye bread, oatmeal, apples and pears and root vegetables.

Over twelve years of follow-up, 4,126 deaths were documented. For each one point higher diet adherence score there was a 4 percent lower adjusted risk of mortality for men and women over follow-up. Comparison of highest scores to lowest revealed a 36 percent lower risk of dying for men whose adherence to the diet was greatest.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study associating a healthy Nordic food index with mortality,” the authors announce. “The 4% lower mortality associated with a 1-point higher score is very similar to the lower mortality seen with the Mediterranean diet score, where a recent meta-analysis reported 9% lower mortality associated with a 2-point higher score.”

“Even though it is difficult to directly generalize the results from the present study to other populations with different food cultures, our study implicates that healthy traditional food items are important to consider in all populations before recommendations for major changes are made,” they conclude.

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