How to Live up to 30% Longer on the Viking Diet (Scandinavian Nordic)

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Try the Viking (Nordic) diet (should be seriously considered)

   This study in Denmark indicates that the use of these traditional, healthy food items may be highly successful.The Danish study developed a food index based on traditional Nordic, Viking food items with expected health-promoting effects and relate this to all causes of mortality with points given based on the diet followed (explained below).
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   Step 2: because recent research by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology

   These foods can lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, according to research compared to modern diet fare.,, In the Danish study, researchers assigned people a score from 0 to 6, keyed to how closely each person followed the traditional Nordic eating style.
   
   For each point earned, mortality dropped by 4 to 6 percent over the course of the term of the 12-year study overall.
   
   The study used diet records provided by 57,053 Danes who participated (beginning ages were 50-64 years) for the 12 year process.
   
   The data was "associated with diet" (of dead and living) "with mortality by Cox proportional hazard models" by the 0- to 6-point system explained. ,, The men appeared to reap more significant longevity benefits from "eating larger amounts of rye bread". , The women "eating lots of root vegetables" were said to get the better results. , Get plenty of vitamin C, B-complex and extra B-12
   -- such neurotropic (neuro-) vitamins are especially indicated in cases of general fatique/weakness and chronic illnesses, including neuropathy (a common diabetic or alcohol problem).
   
   Get enough magnesium and potassium rich foods.
   
   Don't cut out salt, but use it moderately.
   
   Table salt (sodium chloride) is essential
   -- no, not optional.
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   Step 3: Danish Cancer Society suggests that this Scandinavian diet could help you live a significantly longer life than modern diets.

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   Step 4: Eat cabbage

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   Step 5: unrefined rye bread

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   Step 6: root vegetables (carrots

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   Step 7: beets and such)

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   Step 8: coldwater fish

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   Step 9: (Vikings also ate grass fed livestock

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    Step 10: wild game)

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    Step 11: oatmeal

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    Step 12: apples

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    Step 13: and pears and other Scandinavian staples.

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    Step 14: Help rid the body of toxins and carcinogens: This diet with cabbage is rich in isothiocyanate

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    Step 15: which is reported to have such benefits.

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    Step 16: Reduce your risk by as much as one-third!

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    Step 17: Benefit from 1½ cups of shredded cabbage eaten each week: both genders enjoyed longer lives when they did so

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    Step 18: according to researchers.

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    Step 19: Join in trying this style of food as a man: The men scoring the most points reduced their mortality by 36 percent for the 12 year study compared to those men who did not score as well.

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    Step 20: Try this way of eating as a woman

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    Step 21: also: The women with the most points lowered their mortality by 25 percent for the 12 year study compared to those women who did not score as well.

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    Step 22: Eat a wide variety of foods for assuring mineral and vitamin sources.

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