Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Fruit Newsletter Public Health 

The evidence behind five-a-day

March 22, 2021March 21, 2021 Zoë 10 Comments five-a-day, member, the evidence for five a day

Executive Summary * Last week’s note looked at the latest epidemiological study claiming an association between intake of fruit and

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Fruit Newsletter Public Health 

How much fruit & veg is optimal?

March 15, 2021September 27, 2021 Zoë 11 Comments epidemiology, five-a-day, member, mortality

Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction I am known for challenging a number of dietary beliefs –

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Diabetes Fruit Newsletter Public Health Whole Grains 

Plant based diet & diabetes

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 Zoë 5 Comments member, plant based diets, type 2 diabetes, Vegan

Thanks go to Marika Sboros for this week’s note. She alerted me to a paper that was published in the

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Fruit 

Fruit & veg is a marker, not maker, of health

April 13, 2017June 21, 2018 Zoë 4 Comments epidemiology, five-a-day, fruit and veg

I’ve said in a number of posts (here and here, for example) that fruit and veg intake is a marker

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Academic Research Fruit 

Now 10-a-day Supplemental

March 7, 2017January 13, 2018 Zoë 13 Comments 10 a day, cancer, CHD, CVD, five-a-day, fruit, heart disease, mortality

Further to this post, one of the most interesting findings of this recent study was that individual fruits and vegetables

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Fruit Newsletter Public Health 

Now 10-a-day?!

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 Zoë 7 Comments five-a-day, fruit and veg, heart disease, member, mortality

It was 23rd February 2017 and I was over in Breckenridge when friends started to send me links to media

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Academic Research Fruit Heart Disease Medications Red Meat 

Mediterranean Diet better than statins?

August 29, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 15 Comments heart attacks, heart disease, Mediterranean diet, oily fish, statins, strokes

My August Bank Holiday Monday (29/8/2016) kicked off with an interview on BBC Radio Berkshire to discuss the day’s headline:

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Fruit Sugar 

Sugar in fruit

December 29, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 24 Comments apples, bananas, dates, disaccharide, eat real food, fructose, fruit, galactose, glucose, grapes, infographic, monosaccharide, orange juice, polysaccharide, sucrose, sugar in fruit, types of sugar

Five a day is not an evidence based nutrition message. In this post I ask the question – is it

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Dairy Fruit Newsletter Other Diets & Books Red Meat 

The Mediterranean Diet: What people really eat in the Med

August 31, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 2 Comments ancel keys, dairy, fish, meat, Mediterranean diet, member, processed food, sunshine, vitamin D

Back from holiday and it seems fitting to cover The Mediterranean Diet, as we’ve been indulging in it for the

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Academic Research Fruit Newsletter Public Health 

Five a day is enough? Enough of the myth anyway

August 4, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments association, EPIC study, epidemiology, five-a-day, member, mortality

No apologies for returning to the five a day topic. For as long as the powers-that-be keep extolling the virtues

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