Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015

January 11, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 22 Comments Alcohol, carbohydrates, Cholesterol, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, dietary guidelines for americans, eat real food, fake food, fruit, Obesity, salt, saturated fat, sugar, weight

Did you know that, until the final quarter of the twentieth century, public health dietary advice in the US and

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Portion sizes – by guesswork or by nutrients?

November 30, 2015August 15, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments fish, meat, member, portion sizes, whole grains

The diet and health story that caught my eye last week was very visual. The Daily Mail’s “Good Health” had

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Butter or margarine?

October 3, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 23 Comments Butter, dietary guidelines, eat real food, Harvard, heart disease, margarine, nurses health study, saturated fat, trans fats, unsaturated fat

Another paper has been produced by the Harvard team, which likes to analyse data for associations between food and health.

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The banks get it – why don’t public health authorities?

September 28, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments Cholesterol, credit suisse, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, member, saturated fat

If you follow any real foodies on twitter you may well have seen a report circulated on Monday September 21st 2015.

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SACN report: Carbohydrates & Health

July 17, 2015March 27, 2018 Zoë 40 Comments carbohydrates, cardiovascular disease, Coca-Cola, conflict of interest, CVD, Diabetes, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, eat real food, fructose, fruit, Obesity, SACN, Scientific Advisory Commitee on Nutrition, sucrose, sugar

Seven years! On Friday 17th July 2015, a report was issued by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN). This

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Food Groups

May 31, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 11 Comments beans, dairy, eat real food, eatbadly plate, eatwell plate, eggs, fish, food group classification, food groups, fruit, grains, legumes, meat, my plate, nuts, pulses, seeds, vegetables

There must be something about the number five and public health dietary advice. First the myth of five-a-day, then five

Academic Research Macronutrients Newsletter Obesity

High protein diets, weight & death

May 11, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 34 Comments animal protein, atkins, CVD, eat real food, high protein diet, vegetable protein, weight gain

On May 8th 2015, The Independent, and a few other newspapers, reported “High-protein diets increase risk of weight gain, study

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Did a low fat diet beat a low carb diet for fat loss?

March 9, 2015July 31, 2016 Zoë 34 Comments diet intervention, dietary fat, fat burning, fat loss, low carb, low carb diet, low fat, low fat diet, Obesity, randomised control trial, weight, weight loss

A story emerged on March 5th 2015 from the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Diego. It was

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Saturated fat & CHD in Europe

March 1, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 45 Comments CHD, coronary heart disease, death rates, dietary guidelines, Europe, European heart disease statistics, saturated fat, vitamin D

This post shows that, for all 192 countries in the world, for men and women, for CVD deaths and all-cause

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South African Dietary guidelines

February 16, 2015August 22, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments conflict of interest, dietary guidelines, LCHF, member, nutrition, south africa

Thank you SO much for all your support and interest during the dietary guidelines story that broke on Tuesday. We

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