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- Reaction To How Sweden is Beating Obesity
This is my reaction to My 14 Healthy Habits from living in Sweden how they’re beating obesity
In this video I react to healthy habits Swedish people have that means they are beating obesity
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As a Brit that's now lived in Sweden for 15yrs, this article is spot on. I work as a carpenter so lunch is really important. I haven't eaten a sandwich at work since being in Sweden. It's either BYO lunch box, which you prepare the night before, or go to a restaurant between 11.00 and 14.00. Great food at around £8.
To the part about bubbelgum at the checkout, that is not normal bubbelgum!
That is bubbelgum that is for protecting your teeth from decay, by stopping the acid attack from eating food and candy.
I don't know if bubblegum with sugar is even sold in Sweden nowadays.
@@znail4675 I think you can find sugar sweetened Hubba Bubba still, if you go to a proper candy store.
She forgot food in school, many countries does not get food in school in Sweden it’s free. And we are eating healthy warm food for lunch , so not so much bread and sandwiches and this goes for adults too.
What she says about food and bread is quite accurate. The same when it comes to coffee. We Swedes have coffee at least 2 times a day and then you sit down and have that small talk that everyone else does all the time.
In Sweden it's very common with crisp bread. There are several varieties but most are whole grain rye. As long as you keep it dry it last forever.
15:41 cycling in sweden is honestly wonderful almost anywhere, I couldn't imagine ever moving somewhere where i couldn't get around easy by biking
To the point of sport at all ages, we have walking football for elderly and people with poor mobility.
Yes that right, you walk around the pitch not run.
It was invented by John Croot of Chesterfield FC, in Derbyshire around 2016-2017 and is gaining popularity in Sweden.
Here is a video about it: th-cam.com/video/iSuKkNAaBb8/w-d-xo.html
Food at restaurants are usually very expensive in sweden, 20-30 euro is a normal price for a meal. But at lunch it's around 10 euros. How they can manage that price is they usually only serve 1 normal meal, one vegitarian and 1 sallad option and its usually not the most expensive things. It can be salmon or other fish, meatballs, chicken breasts, stuff like that. And you always get free water/soda and sallad with that and a coffee. One thing I love about Sweden.
There is not one chain that sell that type of lunch, they all do.
It is true! But as a born and raised Swede it all comes so natural. You can sometimes not see all the trees because the forrest gets in the way!
Saturday candy is a great concept, as a swedish mom..whenever kids nag for candy in the store..i just say it's not saturday today and it's accepted immideatley :)
Oh i loooove dark bread (we call it "bark bread" since during famine times we used to put bark in our bread), only time i buy white bread is for things like toast or pair it with dinner🤷♂.
A big part of the cost for a lunch meal is made up from cost of labour and in the Swedish model with the collective bargaining of the unions. Which means even a McDonald's worker gets a fair pay.
Leads trabbing a burger meal isn't really as much of a cheap option.
It might be a little cheaper than other bought lunch options, but not by enough to make it the predominant choice.
McDonald's is only cheap if you eat very little else a regular lunch option will be cheaper.
The history behind System bolaget is actually quite interesting.
Just like in the US Sweden also had a vote on a full abolition in the 20’s due to a rampant alcoholism epidemic.
The vote in parliament actually ended exactly on a 50/50 split and thus the abolitionists reframed the motion if abolition into what today is system bolaget in order to lure a couple of more votes over to their side.
At first each citizen was given what was called notboken (the notebook) where there was a monthly ration of how much alcohol anyone could actually purchase … that one was however removed in the 50’s after complaints that it made it this huge complication in planning events like a wedding for example.
Huh, I thought I that supermarket looked familiar, down to the bread section. And after that every shot was from parts of the city I live in. Cool.
We don't need to win as a child in every event. We try to make everyone engaged without comparising. That makes children/youth allow them selves to engage without hesitance in public events!
oh, the checkout gum isle part reminded me how I reacted when I visited Gdansk in Poland - They had VODKA where we have xylitol gum 😄
I live in the north of Sweden and only eat 'road kill' and wolves. Wash it down with moonshine, and then return to my log cabin and produce music that I put out on Spotify. On vacation, I go to Norway because the whole country is an amusement park with electric cars that a child can drive.
About blueberries and other stuff like mushrooms, cloudberries, and lingonberries, I think it would be hard to charge too much for it since everybody can just walk into a nearby forest and pick them for free. Which is what many of us do.
Saturday candy has been a thing for at least half a century.
I have a car but I rarely use it, heck I don't even bother with the bike for distances up to two km or so
i think she ate on a chain called "bröd och salt"(the best lunch chain ever) i ate there today and it cost about 6 dollars to make youre own sallad with fresh ingridients
The thing is that if you eat healthy you do not crave sweets or sugar. Try to eat regulary (at the same time every day) and you will find that you don’t want the bad and sweet stuff. Simple.
Another thing about the candy at Saturdays parents do is kind of clever. Most of them make special food on Saturdays like buying pizza or make more unhealthy food, so their kids won't be able to eat too much candy. As you understand there is no candy if you don't finish eating your food first.
Being raised by nonswedish parents, the saturday candy tradition was sadly non exsistent in my upbringing, with my parents running a restaurant, they were barely there as I grew up. So I allowed my self to develop a sugar addiction to cope :D My teeth are bad, yes...
The healthy lunches basically cost the same as a meal at McDonalds, and can be found in any little lunch restaurant.
2 cups of coffe , and 1 big meal aday makes that work for me ( (i work in heavy lifting at a junkyard(with my hands not machines)) also why we have candy on the weekends is becouse the sugerrush that can keep you up longer, so if you limit that to weekends it dont interfer with the school.
We have a break in our schedule for lunch, must of us don’t get paid for that time but it forces us to stop and eat I guess. Never thought about it before 😅 Most people just bring leftovers in a box and heat it up. But that’s good food as well since we mostly cook our food from scratch.
One other thing to help with obesity is to stop measuring with BMI :P
Biking in Sweden isn't that great... either it's snowing or a timbertruck passes you doing 100km/h (roads aren't as wide) atleast where she is filming from "Sundsvall/Timrå"
But in the citys themselves... sure 😊
I think a lot americans came to a inner city core in Europe or sweden and think everywhere in sweden is like that. Not understanding that suburbs, towns and villages also exist.
@@matsv201The main difference is that in a US suburb so will there only be houses and no stores of any kind.
@@znail4675 I think you mixed up the word suburb and surburbia. A suburb is a small town outside very close to (sometimes touching) a city. It works like a fully independent town but have very close proximity to the city.
Suburbia is a area where there is villas but pretty much nothing else.
It seams like people believe that american suburbia is suburbs, and that there exist no suburbia in Europe. Both things are not true.
here is suburbia in europe, berlin to be more exact.
www.google.com/maps/@52.3939529,13.5786442,3a,75y,282.13h,80.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svOMkUv7EuiTjFL24laXOIg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DvOMkUv7EuiTjFL24laXOIg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D23.154076%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Closest grocery shop is about 2.2 km away, and they way you would drive/bike its over 3km. While that is not really very lager for a suburbia, what make this a bit odd is that its still so close to a very big city.
I lived in the UK for 4 years but I never had a ready meal. I got frozen vegetables, frozen berries, bananas, oats, legumes, nuts and seeds, soya yoghurt and mostly lived off that. The only expensive item is the soya yoghurt, the rest is affordable. Especially frozen veg beans and oats.
I had no Idea that just eating candy on Saturday was a Swedish thing. Thought it was a common thing in the western world.
do you have anything like "tandtroll"(tooth-trolls) outside of sweden?
You should come here to Sweden to our 3 major cities; Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Would love to hear your thoughts on each of our major cities and your experience on what locals of each city think is the best “hidden” secret activity:)
If you choose to, I would really really recommend you to come here during summer months. Maybe end of June around midsummer to end of August.
I live in Gothenburg and you’re welcome to stay here meanwhile you’re here.
And I could show you “Gothenburgs” hidden secret. To be fair it’s not technically in the Gothenburg area, but those who can afford usually go to this areas during summer on vacation!
Would also like to see you visit some live comedy, if there’s some English interpreter or if spoken in English. I also think of a Swedish comedian who might want to meet up and discuss and show you Gothenburg or Stockholm out of a comedians perspective.
I don’t know if it’s something you would like but write to me and maybe we could arrange something. It would be epic man!
10:10 yea I think Responsibility is a better way of phrasing it, at least in how you teach a kid it
Meat is expensive here, fruit and veg isn't if you just look around. We're preferential to very high quality though, if it's not VERY high quality it's not even in the shops.
So you get a lbs of flank steak here, that's not cheap but it's not expensive compared to London either, fruit and veg is a LOT cheaper though so instead of going with something else you'll pick that. A good grilled steak with some garlic bread and salad isn't an expensive dish here if you prepare it yourself.
Of course, there is the kebab, the staple of anyone going home from the pub and if my experience doesn't fool me, same as in England, except you pretty much get twice as much here so you fall asleep and have garlic sauce all over the bed and in your eyebrows and your hair.
At least, that is my experience with London and Umeå.
Danish here - I have a BMI of about 124 and I'm considered absurdly obese for my age compared to other young Danes.
I'm glad I don't smoke, because at least I look younger than some people my age, because smoking became a big thing among Danish millennials.
Anyway... To answer some points in the video... I can't say why, but I do find that white bread tends to be at the bottom at the bread aisle. But I think that's because it's cheaper, too, or because people don't eat as much of it anyway. I don't think the stores would put it there if it lost them money.
As for lunch, if you work in a high-density area, there's bound to be healthy-ish options available, and I can imagine Swedish bosses are more flexible about giving people time for a proper lunch, but the available options still depends on what people are demanding. Like in the supermarket, if people pay for the healthier options, those options become more available. I suspect that rather than the restaurants and groceries trying to give healthier options, what she's describing is that Swedish people expect those options more consistently. I did work at a mall where I could get a vat of salad for 5 bucks if I wanted, I just can't account for whether this is true or not in a mall in a town in the UK or Canada.
As for affordability of healthy food in the supermarket - again, if people buy these things, the stores can buy them in bulk and have to charge less of a premium for them. In Denmark, making your own food is definitely cheaper, especially if you use a lot of vegetables.
The biking thing is just objectively true in Scandinavia. I was 30 by the time I got a driver's license, and sometimes I wish I still worked in town so I'd have a reason to bike 20 mins a day. It's just about setting up the infrastructure in a way that doesn't enforce car use.
Overall - I think the video tends to be describing effects rather than causes. Scandinavia is a less unequal society, so people have more time on their hands to cook and exercise, and our cities weren't built to enforce car culture. People have more time and energy to spend on their well-being because workers - and consumers - have more power compared to corporations, here. Life is just really good here, and I think a lot of the reasons are reproducible, but we should never ignore the fact that we have a lot more resources at our disposal than do your average country or US/Canadian state. But I do also think we have a lot of those resources because of long-standing policy choices that elevate the common good over pure economic metrics, powerful lobbies, or imperial ambitions. I would like every state in the world to try our infrastructure policy (or that of the Dutch), eliminate corruption, and eliminate poverty - but somebody's always benefitting from car dependency, from corruption, and from inequality, so... It's about power in the end.
I think part of swedes being so healthy is due to economy too, the healthier the population the less we need to spend tax money on healthcare etc. Folkhälsoinstitutet (the agency for the populations general health) litterally has the task of making sure people are as healthy as possible. So the incentive is high. Higher than making money off selling pharma… im all for high taxes personally, i love how we all chip in for the common good!
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Why would you be fot higher taxes?
I would say you are dead wrong about Folkhälsinstitutet, they are not even a decade old. And the agency before them was from 2001 and the one before them was from 1992. And the general situation about health (while the aim have change over time) have been around since the 1920s. First it was really just about giving people sufficient food, but later it was more about greeting and keeping people healthy.
I would say conscription is the reason. During 1920, 30s, 40s 50s and really all they way to 90s the total deference demand was basically law. The total defense want people that are smart, healthy, well feed, trained and educated. And they want to keep people in shape until they are 47, at least. Until the late 60s a lot of those activities was totally segregated by sex. Men needed to be buff and have huge stamina. Women needed to be slim but in good shape.
Of cause Sweden's armed forces due to be conscript by force had a huge selection of manpower and could sort the best out of the best after the school system and society targeted to give it the best candidate possible. And well .. they did do other stuff in the 30s that... well is not that popular any more.
Still when the cold war ended, and really not until my time as a conscript (mid/late 90s) the standard fell of a cliff. It did pick up somewhat in the late 00s, but its still way worse than in the 80s
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Well said!
I mean when you earn 60000 kr before taxes and 33000 after taxes.. I dont know if I agree that these high taxes are that good, I could just save that money for heathcare.
The healthcare (family doctor) in Sweden is not especially good except for when it comes to surgeries.
It is sooo hard to find a good family doctor who actually wants or cares to help you and who actually knows anything about anything.. even the smallest problem cant be solved, but with bigger issues they send you to an actual professional.
The dentist is NOT free and that should be included with these high rates of taxes, but the dentists are usually really good.
@@johannalindstrom6262 its even worse than that, because emplyer tax and VAT. So if you get 33k, you probobly pay something like 110k in tax.
And more surpicingly, its not the healthcare that is the added cost, neither is education. Neither healthcare nore education cost swedish tax payers more than us.. that might sound totaly bonkers, but its true
I eat sweets only on Saturdays and it varies between 1 time a week and every other week and sometimes every third week because I have type 1 diabetes
It is quite obvious that people were much thinner in Sweden in the seventies than today, they looked like people in Slovenia or in the baltic states. Agree however that its kind of shock with the horrible british typical lunch with crisps you always get when visting. Vegetables are also comparably expensive here. Kids today eat so much more candy and soda today, its crazy more fold more than the 70s. Off course we dont have so much candy during weekdays. 😂 We also have free dentists up until 20. Working with Danes it was a shock seeing how much more soda they drink. Fun with physical activity? Its just crazy how every sport is turning professional with pressure to go to football practice many days of the week at very young age, in particular football….placement of candy and stuff is by the checkout to get people to buy candystuff when they are hungry and tired. People are attending gyms in masses here…Americans are so focused on the commercial side of everything, no single product will make you happier……carbs blabla…..we only eat cake for fika when we celebrate something. Normally we have a plain coffee.
There are plenty of obese people here in Sweden too. No, white bread is not always put at the bottom. Sweets are displayed in a very appealing way in Sweden and we eat some of the most sweets in the world. Food cost a fortune right now here as well. Lots of people eat sweets any day of the week here, but long ago the tradition started to give children sweets only on Saturdays. I guess some parents try to keep that tradition. It’s kind of either or here. Some try to lead a healthy life style and some don’t give a rat’s arse. Far from everyone participate in sports. Many are fine with just taking a walk now and then.
The things she said are generally true. Doesnt mean every swede does them. But compared to other countries we are less obese, Sweets are not displayed in the same way here that they are in north america, eating candy only on saturdays is a thing still, but yes many people eat on any day, but she even said that. food is expensive yes, really expensive. But thats not what she said, she said lunch is affordable and that is true, lunches in sweden are very cheap compared to regular hours in restaurants. Compared to north america most people here play some sort of sport when they are young, and many continue in their adulthood. Seems like you think the things she said only are true if everyone does them. She compared us to north america and everything she said is true.
And no, kids dont eat candy on only saturdays, today they got their sugar with them daily, either in candy format or sugar drinks false labeled as "energy drink".
Fresh blueberries in the winter is obviously going to be expensive. You can buy it frozen more cheaply.
As a swede when I was little having candy on any other day than saturday would be like really special, almost like illegal. 😅
In Sweden, we don´t have any pure chanes of bad food... not countring Mac, burgerking and those once.... we usally have local sellers that are alot better. Ofcourse that depends if your in a main city or side parts of those. If we talk about the candy in Sweden... the younger ages do like eating candy, but as your age grows older, you eat less.... mostly atleast..
7:18 Symmo Bolget?? How can she fail to pronounce "System" so badly? lmao 😂
When she says Saturdays it's for the kids
"...when you consider how many meals the average Briton eats every day: breakfast, brunch, elevenses, twelvses, lunch, après-lunch, tea, St. Matthew's meal, dinner, supper, midnight feast and 2 a.m. snack" - Look around you
As a Swede (born in the late 80s), I can say that I grew up with bread that was on the darker side, usually with at least some seeds in it. I don't find white bread to be very filling because of that. Growing up, white bread was the... dessert, sort of, for the weekend? It was the second sandwich we had that we could put anything on, but we always had something more filling first. Always have some raw vegetables with lunch or supper. I also have a preference for things made from scratch. If I forget to use up the potatoes on time and they start to go soft and sad on me, I make raggmunk/potato pancakes with them. Of course, you can buy a powder mix for raggmunk in the bigger stores but... it's one of the easier things you can make from scratch that won't take an age, so why not? It'll also use up ingredients that might othewise go into the compost or bin.
My daughter was in that race on #9 , Its like a mini jogging/running for kids. But doing it together while all parents are there and cheering . Every child has the same tshirt so everyone maybe feel like there are in this together. Its sponsored by a milk company,... not sure about that. but its ok
its every year yes
She lives in my city in sweden🎉🎉
Oh no! It's very common to bring your own leftovers for lunch and microwave it.
We have very tasty and good healthy bread in Sweden. I live in The Netherlands right now and the bread here is terrible and tasteless. It's like eating fluffy sponges. In Sweden the full grain bread is dent and tasty.
tbh i rather drink sparkly water or coca cola zero to the candy cause the normal coca cola has way to mutch sugar so drinking that plus eating candy would be a sugar bomb
so sparkly water or coca cola zero wich has no sugar at all is enough for me to drink along with the candy
You could try be more active yourself in the commentary section?
I agree. He always asks for us to comment on different topics but then seem very inactive in the conversation down here.
I havent watched the video yet, but as a morbidly obese sweed its gonna be fun😂.
hmm wow, this was kinda an eyeopener. As a Swede I wonder, do you other guys eat candy all week??
It always needs mention, I'd say, the dark history behind "lördagsgodis". We conducted experiments with candy on disabled people, corroding their teeth killing many from infections of the mouth and malnutrition not more than 50 years ago. The results have been useful certainly, but the victims of these experiments must never be forgotten or be excused as useful sacrifices.
Source?
@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 Open swedish medical history. It's commonly known as "the Vipeholm experiments".
@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholmsexperimenten If you don't know Swedish you need to translate
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholm_experiments?wprov=sfti1
@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 i think he is talking about the faulty myth of lördagsgodis
There is nothing more to say about it , she just told you how we Swedes are and for us ? nothing speciall at all we just want to enjoy life and feel good . Why work to get lots af things and then not have time to enjoy and use everything you got and not feel good because of all the stress and bad food you eat.
Oh the chewing gum thing.
You give us too much credit. The product placement is as much about wanton greed here as anywhere else.
It just comes back to Saturday candy.
Candy at the checkout does not work. No parent will give in to a mid-week 'I wanna' tantrum from the kiddo at the checkout and buy midweek candy.
But sugar free mints and chewing gum is not candy. Good for your teeth! According to marketing.
So that's perfectly socially acceptable as a any day of the week spontaneous treat picked up at the checkout because it's there. Right in your face.
But they are still sugar free.
I wouldnt put much trust into this video. Shes an "influencer" and only show a fasad of "healthy" eating and such.
Full fat. Simple as that.
Really. Get off the green couch.
all our food in sweden is mostly in bottom the worst food but the most healty food is in top and most us grab the healty with alot of fiber and protien food! and most EU country and america they have shitton of cheese and fast food but we dont have it in sweden. That about in US you have to drive yes its true! most country in EU or america you have to have a car and driver license and you can drive for 6 hours and barly going out from one area but in sweden we have alot of trains and bus and if you drive 6 hours in sweden you going through pretty much 7-8 area in sweden but in US you can drive lets saw in texas you drive 6 hours and you are barly half way out of texas
We didnt have any obesity at all when I grew up.. We had 3 fat people in the entire town of 18000 where I grew up and basically all knew about them and their names. I was about write their names and what they used to be called but realized it probaly wudnt even be legal to do that. Its still somewhat rare but much more common these days