Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Food & Nutrition

Food & Nutrition Newsletter 

The best rebuttals for nutritional myths

May 8, 2023May 14, 2023 Zoë 0 Comments member

Executive Summary This note takes 10 nutritional myths and aims to provide the best rebuttal for each of them. The

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Food & Nutrition Newsletter Obesity 

The chocolate study that fooled the world

April 10, 2023April 29, 2023 Zoë 4 Comments chocolate, chocolate scam, member, weight, weight loss

Executive Summary * In 2015, three German reporters set about trying to do a study, which would get published in

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Exercise Macronutrients Men's Health Newsletter 

LCHF vs HCLF for athletic performance

April 3, 2023April 29, 2023 Zoë 2 Comments exercise, HCLF, LCHF, member

Executive Summary * This week’s study involved some professors known to many people in the low-carb world: Noakes, Volek and

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Heart Disease Macronutrients Newsletter 

Carbs & cardiovascular disease

March 27, 2023April 29, 2023 Zoë 6 Comments carbohydrates, cardiovascular disease, member

Executive Summary * This week’s paper was based on the UK Biobank population study. It examined data for 110,000 people,

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Dairy Newsletter Red Meat 

Diets, health & carbon footprint

March 20, 2023March 19, 2023 Zoë 8 Comments dairy, member, red meat

Introduction I spotted this week’s paper on the Medical Xpress news website and a couple of people also emailed me

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Heart Disease Newsletter Sugar 

Does Erythritol sweetener cause cardiac incidents?

March 13, 2023March 19, 2023 Zoë 7 Comments heart disease, member, sweetener

Introduction I spoke at Low Carb Breckenridge in February 2017. There were a number of stalls around the conference hall,

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Heart Disease Macronutrients Newsletter 

Saturated fat – an end to the myth?

November 21, 2022November 27, 2022 Zoë 10 Comments member, saturated fat

Executive summary * An article has been published, which aimed to investigate the robustness of the claim that saturated fat

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Cancer Diabetes Newsletter Red Meat 

Does meat cause CVD & T2D?

October 31, 2022November 27, 2022 Zoë 4 Comments cardiovascular disease, member, red meat, type 2 diabetes

Executive summary * An umbrella review was conducted with the aim of examining all evidence related to meat intake and

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Mental Health Micronutrients Newsletter 

Vitamins, cocoa & cognitive function

October 24, 2022October 23, 2022 Zoë 2 Comments cocoa, member, minerals, vitamins

Executive summary * This week’s note looks at something rare in the field of nutrition – a randomised controlled trial

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Newsletter Other Foods Red Meat 

Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 ‘foods’

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 Zoë 7 Comments plant foods, Ruminants

Executive summary * This week’s paper is one of the worst I have reviewed. * It described a modelling exercise,

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  • Low-carb diets & insulin resistance
  • Pre-diabetes diet advice
  • The chocolate study that fooled the world
  • LCHF vs HCLF for athletic performance
  • Carbs & cardiovascular disease
  • Diets, health & carbon footprint
  • Does Erythritol sweetener cause cardiac incidents?
  • DIAMOND diet trial for type 2 diabetes
  • DASH vs American diet
  • Plant based diets & bowel cancer

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