The public Health agency of Sweden claim that we must eat less meat. This is a false narrative that will harm peoples physical and mental health.

Swedish public owned radio reports that The public Health agency of Sweden, led by director general Karin Tegmark Wisell, reiterates that we must eat less meat. This is a false narrative that will harm people. Recently Swedish tabloid Dagens Nyheter promoted carbs. In August 2023, Finnish state media YLE  interviewed a nutritionist (always the same person) who claimed that hard fats and meat causes type 2 diabetes. Two months earlier, director general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, promoted Nordic dietary guidelines, claiming we should eat less meat. In 2021, YLE interviewed the same nutrition guy who claimed that meat causes colon cancer. In 2021, I presented a model to deal with complex information, tasks, or problems - Rational Entrepreneurial Thinking. Between 2019 - 2023 I have commented on food and nutrition. See a brief comment by Paul Saladino on a conversation between Andrew Huberman and Robert Lustig. 6 pages.

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Swedish public owned radio reports that The public Health agency of Sweden, led by director general Karin Tegmark Wisell, reiterates that we must eat less meat. This is a false narrative that will harm people.

In the report, they have interviewed a chef, Isabel Brummer, who says that vegetables, lentils and beans are delicious.  This seems to be the main argument.

This headline reads: eat less meat.

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Recently, Swedish tabloid Dagens Nyheter published an articles - This is how you choose the right carbohydrates to maintain your weight - where they had interviewed a physician and researcher by training, Maj-Lis Hellenius, who for decades have refused to accept nutrition research and instead have promoted an old viewpoint about carbohydrates.

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In August 2023, Finnish state media YLE, again interviewing the same infamous nutritionist Fogelholm who claimed that hard fats and meat causes diabetes. Really?

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In June 2023, director general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made the following statement on X:

“I congratulate the Nordic Council of Ministers for this impressive product and for the inclusive process of public consultation that produced it".

He had launched something called Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023, which was inspired by World Economic Forum's and Club of Rome's ideas about climate and over population, claiming, drum roll, that we must eat less meat. Really?

In 2021, the same state media - YLE - interviewed the same nutritionist - Fogelholm - who made the following, and I quote, statement:

“The link between colon cancer and red meat is clear. But when it comes to the other diseases, it can also be about having unhealthy lifestyle habits in general".

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In 2021 I presented a model called Rational entrepreneurial thinking, to deal with complex information, tasks, or problems (Österberg, 2021, chapter 3, in Swedish). R.E.T. contains three existing models:

• Epistemic vigilance - be suspicious about a message and the purpose of sending a message (Sperber et al. 2010).
• Disjunctive reasoning - use many different sources in an exploratory manner (Stanovich, 2009). 
• Numeracy - the ability to understand, reason with, and to apply simple numerical concepts (Brook and Pui, 2010).

As a matter of fact, the project also dealt with food and nutrition.

May 7, 2019, I published a popular science article on the University of Helsingfors blog (later moved to this blog): "Perception versus facts": What is the future for sustainable food? The case for prospective thinking (UH).

On January 23, 2020, I was invited as an expert on food and nutrition to the department of Food and Nutrition at the University of Helsingfors, to open their Vik Food Seminar Series for experts on Food and nutrition. Here's the abstract.

On January, 2022, I published another popular science article for Brain Athletics to summarize nutrition science: WHAT SHOULD WE EAT TO MAINTAIN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH? (In Swedish).

On July 3, 2023, I replied to WHO's claim about Nordic Nutrition Recommendation 2023: Nordic Nutrition Recommendations. The case for Continued influence bias, Groupthink, and dysrationalia

On October 10, 2023, I published another article (Swedish) about food and nutrition in Medicinsk Access: How should we choose food in the store?

For an easy-to-understand summary, see Paul Saladino comment a section of Andrew Huberman's conversation with Robert Lustig about food and nutrition.

Also visit: An introduction to Peter Österberg, Ph.D. 

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