Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Macronutrients

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 51 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 10 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 37 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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Macronutrients Public Health 

Low, moderate or high carbohydrate?

August 19, 2018August 20, 2018 Zoë 16 Comments carbohydrate, epidemiology, low carb diet, small group issue

In 1977 the Senator McGovern committee issued some dietary goals for Americans (Ref 1). The first goal was “Increase carbohydrate

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Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health 

Saturated Fat Consultation (SACN) – My Response

July 2, 2018August 6, 2018 Zoë 9 Comments cardiovascular disease, conflict of interest, coronary heart disease, polyunsaturated fat, SACN, saturated fat

At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary

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Conflicts of Interest Macronutrients 

Scientific Advisory Committee Nutrition (SACN) Declarations of Interest

June 14, 2018August 12, 2019 Zoë 5 Comments

At the BMJ/Swiss Re event today (14th June 2018), I was a panel member on one debate.  We were asked

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Heart Disease Macronutrients Men's Health Newsletter 

High protein diets and heart failure

June 4, 2018October 18, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments epidemiology, heart failure, member, protein

Many thanks to Dr Peter Brukner for today’s topic. There were a few to choose from last week, but Peter

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SACN report on saturated fat

May 14, 2018May 15, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, epidemiology, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, randomised control trial, saturated fat

Saturated fat is under the spotlight at the moment. Between February 28th and March 30th 2018, the US dietary guidelines

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