Diet: Mediterranean, Atlantic or Nordic Diet: Is there the best one for your health?
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The Mediterranean, Atlantic and Nordic diets are three specific regional diets. Nutrition professional Uwe Knop reveals whether any of them are particularly healthy and whether they can contribute to weight loss.
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What are the main differences between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Nordic diets?
All three diets are intended to reflect a specific regional diet based on different geographical areas and culinary traditions.
The Mediterranean diet comes from countries around the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Italy. The Atlantic way of eating has its roots in the regions along the Atlantic coast, such as Portugal and Spain. The Nordic eating style is native to Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden.
What is special about each type of diet is the different weighting of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables and oils – in one “diet” it is more olive oil, in others it is more cabbage or more fish. All of this is then “ironed straight” standardized and proclaimed as “healthy food”.
This shows that healthy eating can be anything, the term can be used in any way. But all three diets have one thing in common: they all lack causal evidence, i.e. scientific proof of the rumored “health-promoting power”.
About the expert Uwe Knop
Uwe Knop, born in 1972, is a qualified nutritionist, author, and speaker for lectures at professional associations, companies and at medical training courses. His book “Successfully lose weight and stay slim” was published by Springer-Verlag.
What health benefits are associated with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Nordic diets?
Depending on the personal preference of the expert, journalist or politician, one type or another is best for health. But: nobody knows. And that is due to the massive limitations of nutritional research. There is no scientific proof of special “health benefits” for the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Nordic diets or for any other form of food. And there will never be this causal evidence – just as there is currently no valid evidence for anything in the area of healthy nutrition.
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Can These Diets Help You Lose Weight?
Absolutely. When it comes to diet in general and losing weight in particular, it doesn’t depend on the regional origin or the macronutrient distribution – i.e. whether I eat a particularly high or low amount of carbohydrates, fat or protein. It is important that the nutritional style is balanced and, above all, fits your own personality, lifestyle and unique metabolism.
If you really want to actively bring your heart’s desire to become and stay slimmer out of your deepest inner conviction, you can only lose around 2 kilograms of weight per month in a healthy way with individual diet and lifestyle changes.
Before you start, a “personal tabula rasa” should take place: turn your life upside down thoroughly and completely in order to examine yourself and your own self intensively: who am I, why do I look like that, what do I want and what do I not want to see (anymore) in my life? You don’t necessarily have to count calories to lose weight.
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“Successfully lose weight and stay slim” by Uwe Knop
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