Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Diet & Weight
Food & Nutrition
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  - Macronutrients
  - Micronutrients
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Research

Surgery & Meds

Stopping statins

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Zoë 9 Comments member

Executive summary * A study was published in JAMA Open Network, which generated the headline ‘stopping statins linked to death

Newsletter Surgery & Meds

Carb loading before surgery

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 Zoë 0 Comments carbohydrates, member, surgery

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Last week, I received a really interesting email from a long-term

Heart Disease Surgery & Meds

Statins don’t work well for half those who take them

April 17, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 2 Comments Alcohol, member, patients, smoking, statins

For those lovely people who support what I do, this will be my Monday note (22nd April). I’m sharing the

Newsletter Public Health Surgery & Meds

Statins in the over 75s

February 4, 2019April 28, 2021 Zoë 13 Comments CTSU, serious adverse effects, statins, type 2 diabetes

A rapid response was published in the BMJ here. Executive Summary – A study was published in The Lancet, which

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,

Media Watch Surgery & Meds

Painkillers make you deaf?

December 15, 2016August 6, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments aspirin, deafness, hearing loss, ibuprofen, painkillers, paracetemol

An article appeared in the press today (15 Dec 2016) “Women who take paracetamol and ibuprofen risk going DEAF –

Cholesterol Conflicts of Interest Heart Disease Surgery & Meds

Dear Professor Rory Collins

December 4, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 3 Comments Cholesterol, conflict of interest, CTSU, rory collins

Following the publication of this paper in The Lancet , I wrote to Professor Rory Collins for his evidence. I have done

Conflicts of Interest Media Watch Obesity Surgery & Meds

Obesity Injection (Horizon prog)

June 8, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 13 Comments diet injection, Horizon, low carb diet, obesity injection

The story On June 7th 2016 overweight and obese people were given a hope – a false hope – that

Medications Mental Health Newsletter Surgery & Meds

Paracetamol, Pain, Pleasure, Prozac and Weight

April 20, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments anti-depressant, medications, member, pain, randomised control trial, SSRI, weight gain with medication

A couple of years ago, an active 60 something neighbour shared that she had been suffering chronic pain, but she

Conflicts of Interest Diabetes Newsletter Other Diets & Books Surgery & Meds

And now for diet injections

January 26, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 1 Comment blood glucose, BMI, conflict of interest, glucose, hormones, medications, member, weight loss

Saturday’s Daily Mail had a front page advert for a Danish pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk. It wasn’t an advert placed

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The only diet to have reversed heart disease?
Saturated fat – an end to the myth?
Diabetes Unpacked
TRE, HIIT and HbA1c
Does meat cause CVD & T2D?
Vitamins, cocoa & cognitive function
Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 ‘foods’
Plant based diets & mortality
Fibre – ask why, not how
Protein in meat vs Beyond Burger
Is depression related to serotonin?
The Lipid Energy Model
Lean Mass Hyper-Responders
How much exercise is enough?
Energy balance vs carbohydrate insulin model – Part 2

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