Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Macronutrients

Macronutrients Newsletter 

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

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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

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Calories Macronutrients Newsletter 

Animal Based Low Carb vs Plant Based Low Fat Diets

May 25, 2020March 23, 2021 Zoë 5 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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