Goodbye, Staffan Lindeberg

A photograph Staffan sent me, showing him

weighing a Kitavan homo equally purpose of the

Kitava Study.

I late heard the lamentable word that Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD, Pb researcher of the Kitava Study, has died.

Staffan was a dedicated researcher as well as MD at Lund University inwards Sweden whose live was inspired past times the evolutionary wellness principle. After reading Boyd Eaton as well as Melvin Konner's seminal 1985 paper on Paleolithic nutrition, inwards Staffan's words, "it gradually dawned on me that John Harvey Kellogg, a vegetarian zealot, had to a greater extent than influence on dietary advice than Charles Darwin had" (Staffan Lindeberg. Food as well as Western Disease. 2010). Long earlier it was en vogue, he adopted a Paleo-style diet as well as saw his ain chronic illness opportunity factors, such equally trunk weight as well as blood pressure, decline.

Shortly thereafter, Staffan organized the Kitava Study-- an investigation into the diet as well as wellness of i of the few remaining cultures scarcely touched past times industrialization. Although Kitavans weren't hunter-gatherers past times whatsoever stretch of the imagination, they did swallow a starchy diet gratis of grains, dairy, refined sugar, refined oils, as well as all processed foods. In a serial of papers, Staffan reported that the Kitavans showed undetectable levels of obesity, diabetes, view attacks, as well as stroke-- fifty-fifty inwards one-time age. He went on to acquit randomized, controlled trials on the Paleolithic diet, demonstrating that it tin order notice trim down chronic illness opportunity factors inwards a Western context. He published an overview his findings inwards a book, Food as well as Western Disease.

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