Good News From Sweden

I got this info from a great blog I frequent called The Weight of the Evidence. Apparently a Doctor in Sweden got their National Board of Health and Welfare to agree that a low carb diet is "in accordance with science and well-tried experience for reducing obesity and Type 2 diabetes." This has sparked much discussion with the powers that be in Sweden and their newspapers have picked it up. Part of the conflict is centered on the fact that this Doctor wrote an open letter to schools calling for more healthy fats in the diet of children. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet polled their reader as follows:

Vad tror du att barn mår bäst av?
[translation: What do you think that children are better off with?]

Choices:

Fet mjölk och smör
[translation: Fat milk and butter]

Lättmjölk och margarin
[translation: Skim milk and margarine]

As of this writing, 27,836 have cast a vote in the poll and 89.6% have answered the Fat milk and Butter!

So the newspaper readers of Sweden understand the difference between "whole foods" and processed food. Anyone believing that margarine, a completely chemical "Frakenfood," is better for you then butter has a disturbing world view.

Most dairy products are processed unless you are buying "Raw Milk." Info on Raw Milk can be found at http://www.westonaprice.org/. Raw milk has been outlawed in most of the US because 1 person died from a reaction to it. Another case of the government overstepping it's bounds and meddling in our private lives. I guess the raw milk people don't have as much money as big tobacco.