Fruit – Zoë Harcombe

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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

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

April 13, 2017June 21, 2018 Zoë 3 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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Now 10-a-day Supplemental

March 7, 2017January 13, 2018 Zoë 12 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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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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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:

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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The Mediterranean Diet: What people really eat in the Med

August 31, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 1 Comment 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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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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The five-a-day Con

April 7, 2014July 31, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments EPIC study, five-a-day, fruit, member, randomised control trial, sugar

Crikey what a busy week! No sooner had last week’s newsletter gone out, Sky News were on the phone saying

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The perfect five-a-day?

April 2, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 41 Comments 5-a-day, 7-a-day, cancer, complete protein, dark green leafy veg, eggs, EPIC study, essential fats, five-a-day, fruit, fruit and veg, kale, liver, optimal diet, sardines, seven-a-day, sunflower seeds, vegetables, vitamin C, vitamins and minerals

This is a follow-up to this post. A study came out on 1st April 2014 (no joke) suggesting that we

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