My, my… what would the nutrition establishment say about this? Sweden low carb… This is certainly going to get conventional nutritionists in a right bind.

The dogmatic, robotic and largely unfounded dietary mantra – “Cutting calories, reducing fat, low-carb diets are weird and dangerous” – appears to be under serious attack.

Can you imagine the discussion in the opening sessions at the last Convention on the Conventional Diet?

“It’s just that this annoying evidence in favor of low carb is mounting every day; I mean, how long can we keep rubbing it in?” Responding in that exasperated nasal tone: “I know, what’s going to happen to our dietary guidelines? You know our standard fat-to-weight-loss security blanket?” “I mean, my clients are starting to ask me uncomfortable questions about the food pyramid. They say their friends are losing visible amounts from one week to the next eating bacon and eggs, while they continually have to assure everyone that they’re still watching their weight!”

I’m watching with great interest and a wry smile. I mean, how many studies from the world’s top medical research schools on the efficacy of a high-fat, low-carb diet (in humans and not rats) do we need? Surely there must be something to this ketosis malarkey after all? (Anyone who tells you that nutritional ketosis is a dangerous condition is talking nonsense BTW – as always Google “Nutritional Ketosis” and see for yourself – plenty of doctors and medical professors will explain it to you).

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Low carb Sweden – 10th in life expectancy list

Sweden – 10th on the list for life expectancy at 83 – has just become the first Western nation to officially reject the popular low-fat dogma in favor of LOW CARB, HIGH FAT dietary guidelines. This changes everything. The Swedish Dietary Guidelines are now suggesting you up your fat intake folks! Why? Because they decided to do their own research (from over 16,000 high-quality studies on human nutrition) and then base their recommendations on EVIDENCE, not untested hypotheses.

BTW – The Mediterranean Diet often promoted on the basis that Greeks live longer than their European counterparts, another lie to boost subjective opinion, is making its way into the dietary narrative. Greek life expectancy is lower than almost all major European nations, certainly still high by global statistics, but no higher than Britain. One wonders why there is no media-based branded Austrian diet, or a German diet or a Scandinavian diet, if life expectancy is the reason we follow diets. I know. Because this nice romantic version of something often triggers nutritional dogma. This article offers free shipping on eligible products, or buy online and pick up in store today at Medical.

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Sweden low carb – low carbohydrate consumption

Eat Med, if you will, sounds very healthy, but I think it's the nutritional establishment's way of sneaking more low-carb into the discourse without them having to admit that science is making their belligerent "low-fat" look bad.

As always… don’t believe me. Google “dietary guidelines” Sweden low carb” or “23 Low-Carb, Low-Fat Studies”; Just read the articles from the highly respected peer-reviewed medical journals. Then you decide which side of the fence you prefer to be on with your personal health.

The next question is when can we get South Africa to change its dietary guidelines? I think Tim Noakes has started a valuable public discussion; his legacy will be how he used his racing reputation to change the way we think about diet and lifestyle. Africa needs to address this issue – the incidence of obesity in West Africa has doubled in the last 15 years. Fifteen years! Get that… in South Africa, almost half of people over the age of 15 are overweight. Half! And 20% have a BMI of over 30. In a country where our primary health care response has traditionally focused on undernourished children – 1 in 5 children under the age of 6 is overweight. Yes, obesity and poverty are undeniably positively correlated, meaning that poor people get it more, but they get it – more South Africans die from obesity-related complications than poverty; yet, where is the public health response? (Google “Obesity rates in South Africa” and “More South African adults now die from obesity than from poverty” for credible references, not newspaper articles.)

My personal diet mantra is “EVERY TIME IS DIFFERENT – SO EVERY DIET SHOULD BE DIFFERENT”. Learn to experiment with what you eat. I’m not sure how a health professional can recommend the SAME SOLUTION to EVERYONE, day after day. I think that lacks integrity. I wish this would stop, but not only do diet doctors recommend the same diet to every individual, they actively attack anyone who suggests an evidence-based solution, as eating low carb can be beneficial for many of us. I have personally met hundreds of people who have had genuinely life-changing experiences after eating high-fat, low-carb diets for a few weeks; many of whom have spent years starving themselves in a desperate attempt to cut their “calories in”. The sheer number of people sharing their positive, life-changing experiences on high-fat, low-carb diets is a testament to the many people who have been living in the world today.

This way of eating is anything but a fad. It’s an establishment. And hats off to the Swedes for making it even more so! Is that bacon I smell… or is it the smell of inevitability? Bravo, congratulations to Sweden low carb, a healthy nation.

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