Staffan Lindeberg (1950–2016) was an associate professor of family medicine at the Department of Medicine,
University of Lund
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,
Sweden
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. He was a practicing
GP at St Lars Primary
Health Care
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Center,
Lund
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, Sweden. Lindeberg researched the
Paleolithic diet
The Paleolithic diet, Paleo diet, caveman diet, or Stone Age diet is a modern fad diet consisting of foods thought by its proponents to mirror those eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era.
The diet avoids food processing and typically incl ...
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Works
Dissertation
* ''Apparent absence of cerebrocardiovascular disease in Melanesians. Risk factors and nutritional considerations – the Kitava Study'' (Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 1994)
Published research articles
* ''Cardiovascular risk factors in a Melanesian population apparently free from stroke and ischaemic heart disease: the Kitava study'' (Journal of Internal Medicine. 1994 Sep;236(3):331-40.)
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Books
* ''Food and Western Disease: Health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective'' (Wiley-Blackwell, December 2009)
See also
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Paleolithic diet
The Paleolithic diet, Paleo diet, caveman diet, or Stone Age diet is a modern fad diet consisting of foods thought by its proponents to mirror those eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era.
The diet avoids food processing and typically incl ...
*
Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived Lifestyle, lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, esp ...
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Stanley Boyd Eaton, researcher
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Melvin Konner
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Melvin Joel Konner (born August 30, 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.
Biography
Raised in an Orthodox Jewi ...
, researcher
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Loren Cordain
Loren Cordain (born October 24, 1950) is an American scientist who specializes in the fields of nutrition and exercise physiology. He is notable as an advocate of the Paleolithic diet.
Education
Loren Cordain obtained a B.S. in Health Sciences ...
, researcher
References
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1950 births
2016 deaths
Swedish general practitioners
Lund University alumni
Academic staff of Lund University
Nutritionists
Paleolithic diet advocates