Goodbye, Staffan Lindeberg

A photograph Staffan sent me, showing him 

weighing a Kitavan human being equally business office of the 

Kitava Study.

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

Staffan was a dedicated researcher together with Dr. at Lund University inwards Sweden whose operate was inspired yesteryear the evolutionary wellness principle.  After reading Boyd Eaton together with 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 together with Western Disease. 2010).  Long earlier it was en vogue, he adopted a Paleo-style diet together with saw his ain chronic illness guide a opportunity factors, such equally torso weight together with blood pressure, decline.

Shortly thereafter, Staffan organized the Kitava Study-- an investigation into the diet together with wellness of 1 of the few remaining cultures scarcely touched yesteryear industrialization.  Although Kitavans weren't hunter-gatherers yesteryear whatever stretch of the imagination, they did consume a starchy diet gratuitous of grains, dairy, refined sugar, refined oils, together with all processed foods.  In a serial of papers, Staffan reported that the Kitavans showed undetectable levels of obesity, diabetes, pump attacks, together with stroke-- fifty-fifty inwards onetime age.  He went on to acquit randomized, controlled trials on the Paleolithic diet, demonstrating that it tin trim chronic illness guide a opportunity factors inwards a Western context.  He published an overview his findings inwards a book, Food together with Western Disease.

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