Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Obesity

Gary Taubes in London

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Zoë 6 Comments calorie formula, calorie theory, low carb diet, low fat diet, member, Obesity

Gary Taubes (GT) has been in London, over the weekend of 17-18 March 2018, doing a marathon six hour presentation

Conflicts of Interest Obesity

Britain needs to go on a diet says Public Health England

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 Zoë 8 Comments 3500 calorie theory, calorie controlled diets, public health dietary advice, Public Health England

Back in October 2011, England announced a new obesity ‘strategy’. I blogged on it here. The three key proposals were:

Diabetes Newsletter Obesity

Type 2 diabetes WILL get worse without lifestyle change

January 15, 2018January 16, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments epidemiology, member, Obesity, type 2 diabetes

We’re returning to the omnipresent topic of type 2 diabetes this week because there was a study published on 11th

Conferences Newsletter Obesity

Fasting for weightloss

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 Zoë 11 Comments calories, eat less do more, fasting, member, weight loss

I’ve just got back from speaking at the second Public Health Collaboration Conference. This one was held at the Manchester

Calories Newsletter Obesity

Kekwick & Pawan: is a calorie a calorie?

May 22, 2017June 3, 2020 Zoë 4 Comments calories, kekwick, member, Obesity, pawan, the lancet

I was hoping that this week’s note would report breakthroughs from the European Congress on Obesity, which was held in

Academic Research Calories Obesity Public Health

What the US eats

February 6, 2017June 3, 2020 Zoë 7 Comments Butter, cereal, fake food, Family Food Survey, Obesity, real food, sugar, vegetable oils

This post goes hand in hand with this one on UK food intake. I’ve looked at UK and US food

Newsletter Obesity Public Health

Will Trump tackle obesity?

January 23, 2017January 30, 2017 Zoë 1 Comment Donald Trump, Let's Move, member, Michele Obama, Obesity

Apart from the 44th president’s struggle to stay away from cigarettes, Barack and Michelle Obama were a healthy couple. They

Exercise Heart Disease Newsletter Obesity

Heart Disease: genes vs. lifestyle

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments epidemiology, exercise, healthy diet, heart disease, member, Obesity, smoking

Many thanks to Jerome Burne for alerting me to this one. Jerome sent me a paper to take a look

Children's Health Newsletter Obesity Public Health

South African Dietary Guidelines

October 10, 2016October 30, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments breastfeeding, carbohydrate, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, infant formula, member

On 16th September 2016, it was announced that Nina Teicholz and I would be going to Cape Town to appear

Academic Research Calories Exercise Newsletter Obesity

‘Fitbits’ won’t make you slim, but nor will low-cal diets

September 26, 2016August 6, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments calories, dieting, exercise, member, weight watchers

A really interesting study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 20th 2016. It was

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