Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

About
Diet & Weight
Food & Nutrition
- Food Companies
- Nutrition
  - Macronutrients
  - Micronutrients
- Specific Foods
  - Dairy
  - Fruit
  - Red Meat
  - Sugar
  - Whole Grains
  - Other Foods
Health
Research

Macronutrients

Animal vs plant protein

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Zoë 3 Comments animal protein, member, plant based diets, protein

Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction Monday notes can come from the simplest of seeds. This one

Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health

Cochrane saturated fat reviews

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Zoë 14 Comments Cochrane, dietary fat, heart disease, mortality, saturated fat

Executive summary * This week’s note examines the latest Cochrane report to be published on saturated fat and health outcomes

Calories Macronutrients Newsletter

Animal Based Low Carb vs Plant Based Low Fat Diets

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Zoë 4 Comments low carb diet, low fat diet, member

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction There’s been quite a lot of chatter online about this week’s

Dairy Heart Disease Macronutrients Newsletter

Dietary Fat & Mortality

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Zoë 0 Comments dietary fat, heart disease, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet

Macronutrients Newsletter

High protein diets & kidney disease

March 9, 2020March 15, 2020 Zoë 1 Comment high protein diets, kidney disease, member, protein

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction In December 2019, ‘Anon’ asked if I could review an article

Dairy Macronutrients Newsletter

Time to rethink saturated fat?!

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Zoë 1 Comment dairy, meat, member, saturated fat

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We had the absolute delight of hosting Dr Peter Brukner and

Macronutrients Men's Health Newsletter Women's Health

Low carb diets and mortality

May 13, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 4 Comments low carb diet, member, meta-analysis, mortality

Introduction This week we’re looking at a classic article, which was published in January 2013. It was called “Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Macronutrients Micronutrients Red Meat Whole Grains

The EAT Lancet diet is nutritionally deficient

January 17, 2019January 31, 2019 Zoë 54 Comments macro nutrients, micro nutrients, nutritional deficiency, red meat, the lancet, whole grains

A report was published in The Lancet on 17th January 2019. The report was commissioned by The Lancet. The report

Macronutrients Newsletter Other Diets & Books

Slimming World’s view of low carb diets

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 Zoë 13 Comments carbohydrates, dieting, low carb diet, weight

The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging

Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health

Low carb diets could shorten life (really?!)

August 23, 2018September 4, 2018 Zoë 39 Comments association, carbohydrates, causation, epidemiology, Harvard, meta-analysis, relative risk

The BBC headline was ”Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests” (Ref 1). In the US, CNN went with “Low

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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
The 500th Monday note!
The Eatwell Guide & The Environment
The Eatwell Guide & Mortality
Low calorie vs low carbohydrate for T2D remission (DiRECT vs Virta)
Liquid diets & weight regain
Soups & Shakes for Type 2 Diabetes
Cholesterol & PCSK9s – the lower the better?
Meat, plants & TMAO

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