Better Health Through Nordic Foodways
Eating ancestrally and historically is popular amongst both mainstream nutritionists and in fad diets – from the Mediterranean diet to the Paleo Diet. The most recent scientific research from the massive “Diogenes Project” indicates that the Nordic diet provides one of the best regimes for getting and, importantly, staying at a healthy weight.
In this video Heathen Hearth explains the diet and the logic behind it. In addition, easy-to-follow optional food food drawn from pre-Christian Viking Age Europe are presented.
Book Hoard:
- The Nordic Way: Discover The World’s Most Perfect Carb-to-Protein Ratio for Preventing Weight Gain or Regain, and Lowering Your Risk of Disease (2017), by Arne Astrup, Jennie Brand-Miller, Christian Bitz
- The Nordic Diet: Using Local and Organic Food to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle (2011), by Trina Hahnemann, Lars Ranek
- The Nordic Cookbook (2015), by Magnus Nilsson
- Genius and Partnership: Ancel and Margaret Keys and the Discovery of the Mediterranean Diet (2015), by Joseph L. Dixon
- The Okinawa Program: How the World’s Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health – and, How You Can Too (2002), by Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, Makoto Suzuki
- The Paleo Diet Revised: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat (2010), by Loren Cordain
- Appetites of Man: An Invitation to Better Nutrition from 9 Healthier Cultures(1978), by Sally De Vore, Thelma White
- 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today (2017), by Stephen Le
- Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing (2015), by Luz Calvo, Catriona Rueda Esquibel
- The G.I. Diet: Glycemic Index (2010), by Rick Gallop