Finnish Food Evolution

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Finnish dietary advice

It shows clearly the changes in the (recommended) Finnish food diet since the 50's.

Alarming to me is how wheat as pushed itself into many of the different parts: white wheat bread from the 70's (before that we where only recommended to eat rye and oatmeal grains!), sausages in the protein section from the 80's (they contain usually 70% of wheat), and pasta together with potatoes (!!!) and those other roots kicked out of the root section and into vegetable section...hmm....and as from the 80's sugar is also including in those (wheat-based) cinnamon buns in the bread section. This leads to my question: Once again - why are we getting fatter in this country? Is it because of the banned real fat or could it be the combination of wheat and sugar?

Other parts that I find interesting:
- the locally wild grown antioxidant-filled berries have diminished (and even disappeared in chart from the 90's) and been replaced by exotic fruits (year around - berries in the fifties probably mostly only in the summer).
- Increas of lacteos
- how industrialized food has made its entrance: yogurts, liver casserole, salami and of course: the evil margarine.
- juice in the veggies as from 90's

If we were to follow Michael Pollan's "eat only what your great grandmother would have considered as food", then I guess the best bet of them all is the recommendations from the 50's - especially if it should be locally produced...