Andreas Eenfeldt | |
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Education | MD from Uppsala University |
Occupation | CEO, Doctor |
Known for | DietDoctor.com |
Notable work | The Food Revolution |
Board member of | The Dietary Science Foundation |
Website | www |
Andreas Eenfeldt (born 19 January 1972) is a Swedish doctor specializing in family medicine. [1] He is an advocate for low-carbohydrate high-fat diets and has criticized the saturated fat guidelines. [2] [3] Eenfeldt was born in 1972 and graduated from medical school at Uppsala University. A few years later, he started DietDoctor.com, a website focused on low-carbohydrate diets. He became a public figure in a heated debate over the merits of the diet. [4]
Andreas Eenfeldt was born in 1972. [4] He earned a degree in medicine [4] from Uppsala University. [5] After graduating, Eenfeldt became interested in poker and eventually earned more money from online poker than from practicing medicine. [6]
Initially, Eenfeldt encouraged overweight patients to follow the traditional dietary guidelines he learned at medical school, but his views changed over time. [4] [7] In 2007, he started a blog about low-carbohydrate dieting under the name "Kostdoktorn." [6] [8]
Within a few years, Kostdoktorn (now called dietdoctor) became the most visited health blog in Sweden. [4] [9] : 15 He created an English version in 2011. [8] In 2015, Eenfeldt quit his job as a doctor to focus on the website. [1] As of 2019, the website generates 50 million Swedish Krona (= US$5.7 million) per-year from 500,000 daily visitors. [6] As of 2019, it had a staff of 30 employees and was mostly owned by Eenfeldt. [6]
Eenfeldt became a public figure and commentator in a heated debate over low-carbohydrate diets. [4] In 2012, he published a book called Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution: Advice and Recipes to Improve Your Health and Reduce Your Weight. [4] [10] It became a bestseller in Sweden and was translated into eight languages. [8]
The low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets Eenfeldt advocates for are controversial and not supported by official dietary guidelines. [2] Eenfeldt disputes the current saturated fat guidelines and says official dietary guidelines are not supported by good science. [2] He has commented that "there is no good science to show that saturated fat is bad. I have been in contact with many experts but no one has been able to show me a single study that shows that it is dangerous, because there are no studies that show a reduced risk of heart attack and stroke." [2]
An article in Science as Culture said low-carbohydrate advocates like Eenfeldt are exploiting anecdotes where patients experienced better health after adopting the diet. [9]
Eenfeldt lives in Karlstad, Sweden [10] with his wife and their two daughters. [4] [11]
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