A healthy Nordic diet lowers cholesterol levels, and
therefore the risk of cardiovascular disease, a pan-Nordic study where Lund
University participated has found. There was also decreased inflammation
associated with pre-diabetes.
-The subjects who ate a Nordic diet had lower levels of
harmful LDL cholesterol and higher levels of “good" HDL cholesterol. The
amount of harmful fat particles in the blood also declined, says Lieselotte
Cloetens, a biomedical nutrition researcher at Lund University.