In recent years, the effects of a diet similar to MD started to be investigated: the Nordic diet (ND). Similarly, ND is based on fruits, especially berries, and vegetables, fish, whole grains, and includes low amounts of processed red meat and is almost lacking saturated fats. As olive oil is specific for the Mediterranean basin, the ND includes canola oil (Lankinen et al., 2019; Magnusdottir et al., 2017). Literature reports are reviewed elsewhere (Lankinen et al., 2019) and although scarce, they indicated that ND exerted anti-inflammatory effects, as it was able to reduce the serum levels of CRP (de Mello et al., 2011; Lankinen et al., 2019).