Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Obesity

Newsletter Obesity

Do we need to pay people to lose weight?

March 29, 2021March 28, 2021 Zoë 1 Comment 3500 calorie theory, member, Obesity

Executive Summary * A ‘new’ scheme has been launched in the UK to help people to lose weight and/or maintain

Newsletter Obesity

Essay on The Obesity Epidemic

November 16, 2020November 23, 2020 Zoë 9 Comments calorie theory, carbohydrates, dietary fat, member, Obesity, thermodynamics

Introduction Back in 2019, I was invited to contribute an article to an academic book on obesity, which was to

Newsletter Obesity

Fat shaming or life saving

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Zoë 9 Comments COVID-19, fat shaming, Obesity

Introduction In February 2004, HTV Wales made a discussion programme about obesity. They hosted a dozen people with many different

Newsletter Obesity Public Health

COVID-19 Risk factors

April 20, 2020May 27, 2021 Zoë 10 Comments COVID-19, heart disease, Obesity, risk factors

Executive summary Introduction On March 17th, 2020, when I first searched the academic database, PubMed, for “COVID-19” and “humans”, there

Newsletter Obesity Public Health

A global diet in an obese and starving world

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 Zoë 4 Comments epidemiology, fruit and veg, member, morbid obesity, poverty, red meat, sugary drinks, whole grains

Introduction In my last year of corporate life (2008), as HR Director across a group of companies I introduced ‘Lunch

Calories Newsletter Obesity

Weight gain over Christmas

December 17, 2018June 3, 2020 Zoë 4 Comments christmas, member, randomised control trial, weight gain

This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has

Calories Newsletter Obesity

Diet for weight maintenance

November 19, 2018June 3, 2020 Zoë 2 Comments calorie formula, calories, high carb diet, low carb diet, member

On 16th November 2018, NY Times reporter Anahad O’Connor tweeted that the number one most emailed story on the NY

Newsletter Obesity

World Obesity Day

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Zoë 3 Comments discrimination, member, Obesity, weight discrimination

October 11th (2018) was World Obesity Day. World Obesity Day was launched in 2015 by the World Obesity Federation “to

Heart Disease Newsletter Obesity Surgery & Meds

A new miracle diet pill?

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments heart disease, lorcaserin, medication, member, weight loss

We were still digesting ‘that (not) low-carb study’ when stories started to emerge from the European Society of Cardiology conference,

Newsletter Obesity Other Diets & Books

Men, Women & Dieting

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments dieting, member, men's health, very low calorie diet, women's health

This week’s note comes from a global collaboration between researchers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The research was reported

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Plant-based diets & COVID-19
SACN report on lowER carb diets for T2D
A healthy vegetarian diet
Bariatric surgery 10 years on
Do we have a weight set point?
Bad diets, heart disease & deaths
Transmission of Covid-19 post vaccination
Should Low Carb be High Fat or High Protein?
Anorexia – in memory of Nikki Grahame
Meat & disease – again!
Risk factors for women & heart disease
Do we need to pay people to lose weight?
The evidence behind five-a-day
How much fruit & veg is optimal?
DIETFITS – who did best?

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