Virus?

So that "american" that I told you about before, that has viewed my blog around 700 times since 20th of february... When I go into the traffic sources at the statistics, I get to places that seems to be pop up pages, or some kind of virus. Would it be possible that it's not actually a person who is viewing my blog but that it's a virus? Maybe a stupid question but I just don't think that it's a person behind those 700 views.. What do you think?

984,8

I've been sick for about 3,5 weeks so haven't been able to run at all.. But today I felt better so now I'm down to 984,8 km left for this year to reach my 1000 km goal with not including the running before Feb 18th or whenever it was I decided it. It is so nice to run now when it's sun!

More fermenting

Me and dad made these fermented vegetables, two today and two a few days ago. They are made of:

1. Cauliflower, broccoli and radish
2. Carrots and swedes
3. Beets, parsnips and fennel
4. White cabbage

Now I just have to wait a few weeks then they will be ready :) Yummi!

I quit my job today

I FINALLY quit my job at the airport today! I like it but it's ofcourse not a job you want to stay at the rest of your life. I was in total of about 8 stores at the airport and some where good and some were not so good.. The one I was at since last summer has been great.. Anyways, I have waited for the day when I quit and it finally arrived! Now  I just have to return my badge and the clothes on friday when I'm going there anyways as I'm going to London then.

Otherwise, I've been cooking for about 6 hours today. It's my moms birthday so I did starters, main course and a cake. It was fun!

Summer course

I have now applied for a summer course in environmental issues, climate change etc.. I believe those things are very important to think about when working with food so I'm excited about the course and to learn more.

Updates

I haven't been blogging that much lately. I have things to write and I've been especially excited about writing about turmeric but it has been to many other things to do. I want to go back to writing more about nutrition again. I mean that is the point of this blog, not to just update you on my life. But for you who wants an update, here is a few:

Had a chicken lab in school today. It was fun and we got to try several chicken dishes that were really good.

Someone from the states has now viewed my blog around 500 times the last 1½ week. It's weird and I don't even have 500 posts to see so if you read this - let me know who you are. And maybe stop?

I gave up on letting my bangs grow out so I went to the hairdresser 3 days ago and cut it. I wasn't really happy about how she cut the rest of the hair but that's not really a big problem. I'll just have to be more clear of how I want it next time I guess. Picture will come soon.

I have decided to quit my job at the airport. It's too stressful during the summers and I will focus on working on dads companies instead and maybe I'll do a summer course. If anyone knows of a distance summer course in ecology - let me know.

And tomorrow we are going to visit a butchery. Interesting huh ;)

Why I'm now against LCHF - read this!

Stig Bengmark wrote an article in a newspaper against the low carb - high fat diet: http://www.sydsvenskan.se/opinion/aktuellafragor/article1611864/LCHF-orsakar-cancer-och-hjart--och-karlsjukdomar.html

"The LCHF guy"/kostdoktorn (nutrition doctor) then wrote this: http://www.kostdoktorn.se/foraldrade-varningar-i-sydsvenskan/

The last guy wrote that S. Bengmark has been retired a few decades. Well, it says on the link that Andreas (lchf guy) put on his post that S. Bengmarks retirement is most likely to take a long time (to happen) - pensionen lär dröja!

As I have mentioned several times before, S. Bengmark is working at the University of London where he goes through new studies 8-10 hours per day - so he is defently well updated.

I don't believe that Livsmedelsverket are right either, but I still rather eat as livsmedelsverket than LCHF, if I had to choose. I personally believe that the "stone age diet" and the mediterranean diet are healthy. 

Here are a few points why I don't believe LCHF is right:

• The body isn't made for LCHF as it tears on the body when it has to use protein to transform glucose and some cells has to have glucose such as nerv cells and blood cells. 
• The ones who speaks for LCHF are not being honest as they show research that is on a moderat intake of carbohydrates (around 30-40 E%) but they say it was a low carb diet.
• They don't care that much about intakes of vitamines, antioxidants, minerals, HOW you cook the food (heating, frying etc that are producing substances that can give cancer but also AGE/ALE which gives inflammation in the body and from the inflammation - a list of other diseases). For example they say bacon is great - but first, pig has been shown to be unhealthy and if you also fry it then a lot of unhealthy substances will be produces. For LCHF it's all about carbs vs fat. It is far more complicated than that and many other aspects you need to consider.
• They only show peoples blood lipids (cholesterol etc)  in general and the blood glucose after a meal and in general. It would be interesting to see how the inflammation looks like in the body and how the blood lipids looks like right after a meal (which would be very high), oxidative stress etc etc.. They are very narrow in these things and only cares about certain tests even though some other ones would be very important to check as well. There are sooo many more things you can test than just blood glucose!
• The examples they are normally taking are fat diabetics. Their blood sugar will OFCOURSE be better when they don't eat anything that highers the insuline - but it's still not a healthy diet! There is so much more to health than your insuline
• They also say that meat and milk products are good to eat - which has been shown to be unhealthy in many many studies.
• It's bad for our planet. Even though they say that you don't have to eat meat or other foods that would be bad for the planet, I still haven't met a single person that eats LCHF that takes those things away.
• They never speak about all those people that has tried it and gained weight or gotten sicker. So why can they not be self critical in these things if they believe that they are so right and everyone else are wrong?

 I'm sure there are so many more things to mention but these are the things that I was thinking about right now. One thing that I believe they are right in though is that it's not healthy with "fast carbs" such as sugar, white rice, bread and so on.