Arne Astrup - The Nordic Way: Discover The Worlds Most Perfect Carb-to-Protein Ratio for Preventing Weight Gain or Regain, and Lowering Your Risk of Disease

In May 2016, the New York Times published a front-page story confirming a discouraging truism that millions of dieters recognized all too well: While losing weight is hard, keeping it off is harder. So hard, in fact, that even dieters who had successfully shed a hundred pounds or moresometimes much morewere unable to keep off the weight theyd lost without enduring punishing deprivation that was simply unsustainable. Small wonder that many readers interpreted these findings as proof that sustained weight loss is simply unachievable, and that to the contrary, our bodies are hard-wired to want to gain weight, whether slowly, as a consequence of aging, or more rapidly, as a response to severe calorie restriction.

Every day millions of Americans are engaged in what can feel like a losing battle to maintain a normal weight and avoid the debilitating lifestyle conditions and diseases that can result from a typical Western convenience diet. You may be one of them. If so, this meal plan (lets not call it a diet, even though it will help you lose a few pounds) is for you. Perhaps you are looking to control your blood pressure before resorting to medication. Maybe youre concerned about the effects of inflammation. You may even have been alerted by your doctor that you have prediabetes, and are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes unless you lose weight. Or maybe you just want to improve your quality of life by feeling fitter, leaner, and less encumbered. If any of these apply to you, youll find eating as the Scandinavian people traditionally havea diet science now recognizes as the very healthiest you can eatwill help you achieve your goals, and it will get you there without restricting or even counting calories. Nor will you need to eliminate entire categories of food from your life. Thats because the Nordic Way is not a diet, but rather an old-is-new approach to eating that will support longevity and health; result in slow, sustainable weight loss; and prevent age-related weight creep.

Eating the Nordic Waythe way most Scandinavian people have eaten for generations, with an emphasis on nutritionally dense foods like unprocessed whole grains, high-fiber vegetables like cabbage, omega-rich fatty fish, and protein-packed dairy productswill automatically deliver these benefits, including an almost effortless approach to getting your weight under control. By now youve probably realized that losing weight isnt the problemvirtually any of the extreme plans currently making the rounds will help you drop a few pounds in the short run. Keeping it off is the real challenge. If you are one of the many who started a diet with high hopes, only to lose some weight and then regain it all (and maybe even put on a bit more), you may have convinced yourself that lasting weight loss just isnt possible. But we three, trained scientists and nutritional experts all, know that it is. And heres why.

With the worlds largest dietary study, DiOGenes, funded by the European Commission (their equivalent of the NIH) with around $20 million, we finally have a breakthrough in understanding how and why the diet is so crucial for optimal health, and particularly how you can maintain a healthy body weight and reduce inflammation in the body and diabetes risk without even thinking about calories... This important new research is the foundation of the principles in this book, and the findings are so compelling that we dont consider it hyperbole to call The Nordic Way the most effective meal plan for taming inflammation in the body and preventing weight gain for a lifetime.

The beauty of the DiOGenes concept is that we are not going to tell you to count calories and consume fewer of themafter all, you have tried that, and that approach only works as long as you are motivated to stick to it. What we