The ultimate impact on the environment- be a size zero!

I saw a good article in the swedish newspaper DN today, it's about the diet LCHF, low carbon high fat. Some people replacing carbohydrates to protien and fat in there diet, to get thinner I guess. In some way it's really logical. Carbohydrates are converted to fat in the body and gets stored to our thighs, hips and bellies. The thing is that the production of fat and protein is very bad for the environment. To eat beef instead of lentils, butter instead of oil and tomatoes instead of carots etc have a very negative effect on the environment. The auther writes: "one review also shows that several of the studies that Swedish proponents of the diet refers to is sponsored by the U.S. meat industry and other businesses that have an interest in people moving to LHCF." 


If you speak swedish, read the article and form your own opinion. 

Since I didn't go to Svalbard, I had to do something else for my bachelor thesis. Me, my boyfriend and two friends where hiking in Sarek for two weeks. It was really awesome! Sometimes it was really wet but we hade some really nice days to. Yeah good time.

On our hike

Lars and I on a top

The four of us on Skierfe

The others went home to gothenburg again and I travelled on to Ritsem to meet up some other guys from the university. We stayed there for about ten days to do a biodiversity inventory. We hade a really good time up on a mountain with stunning views of Akkah (see picture below). One day it was hail and another day snow, but most of the time it was just cloudy and +5° C. In my project I'm looking at plants to see the how they allocate the biomass between the above ground tissue and the under ground tissue. Some plants were taken from inside a fence and some were found outside the fences. So I'm trying to see if they allocate the biomass differently if they have been exposed to grazing or not. It took me five hours to collect the plants, the rest of the time I was working with the inventory together with the others. 

Every morning we went up on the mountain with a helicopter, just to save time. In the afternoon we were walking back to the house where we slept, it was a one and a half hours walk. One day we saw a lynx outside the window, really nice!

 The lynx outside the house

The Akkah mountains 

 The hellicopter flight. Me and Mattias

Well I had a great time in the swedish mountains and hopefully I'll go there soon again! This semester I'll spend a lot of time in the lab on the university, to measure all the plants. I'll try to write more often!

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