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Nordic Diet Explained: Health Benefits, Foods
If someone were to ask you what the healthiest region on earth was, what would you choose? Japan, where the Blue Zone of Okinawa is located and people regularly live to be over 100 in good health? The Mediterranean? While there are many places around the world one could point to, the Nordic region in Northern Europe is often overlooked. But it shouldn’t be—all Nordic countries exceed the global life expectancy. In the U.S., the average life expectancy is 76 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Nordic countries (which include Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Aland and the Faroe Islands), all countries but Greenland…