You Plough Goodbye, Staffan Lindeberg

A photograph Staffan sent me, showing him

weighing a Kitavan human equally purpose of the

Kitava Study.

I late heard the deplorable tidings that Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD, atomic number 82 researcher of the Kitava Study, has died.

Staffan was a dedicated researcher as well as doc at Lund University inward Sweden whose live on was inspired past times the evolutionary wellness principle. After reading Boyd Eaton as well as Melvin Konner's seminal 1985 paper on Paleolithic nutrition, inward 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 affliction guide chances factors, such equally torso weight as well as blood pressure, decline.

Shortly thereafter, Staffan organized the Kitava Study-- an investigation into the diet as well as wellness of 1 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 consume 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, pump attacks, as well as stroke-- fifty-fifty inward onetime age. He went on to bear randomized, controlled trials on the Paleolithic diet, demonstrating that it tin trim chronic affliction guide chances factors inward a Western context. He published an overview his findings inward a book, Food as well as Western Disease.