Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Obesity

Newsletter 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

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025
  • Review of 2020
  • ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 – The Lancet Papers
  • The impact of a 10% limit on saturated fat
  • The Case For Keto
  • Vegans & bone fractures
  • Eggs, diabetes and Chinese adults
  • Essay on The Obesity Epidemic
  • SAGE conflicts of interest
  • UK Deaths with Covid-19 & R
  • The Impact of Lockdowns
  • UK deaths in 2020
  • Calories, Thermodynamics & Weight

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