Eating has become so much more than a way to get nutrition. What you eat can be a stand for a better world for people as well as animals, for home-grown products or a national agriculture. world, or for home-grown products and a national agriculture. Food can also be a way to build the perfect body and maximize muscles or get more beautiful skin and hair. What you eat, or better yet what you don't eat, is identity-building. Lena Andersson's entertaining and accurate essay is about the individual's lonely struggle, at best with, at worst against, his or her own body and health, and about the state's impossible and probably increasingly erroneous mission to get us all to eat the right way.
Can Private Sector Players Make Sweden Healthier? Seminar in Almedalen on the Future of Healthcare
Sweden spends nearly 700 billion kronor a year on healthcare, but only a fraction of those resources goes toward disease prevention. At the same time, lifestyle-related diseases account for a large portion of the burden on the healthcare system, and many Swedes spend their final years in poor health.
