Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Diet & Weight
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Sugar

Does Erythritol sweetener cause cardiac incidents?

March 13, 2023March 19, 2023 Zoë 7 Comments heart disease, member, sweetener

Introduction I spoke at Low Carb Breckenridge in February 2017. There were a number of stalls around the conference hall,

Cancer Newsletter Sugar

Sweeteners & cancer

June 6, 2022June 26, 2022 Zoë 1 Comment cancer, member, sweeteners

Executive summary * This week’s paper is the latest output from the French NutriNet-Santé population study. This study started in

Newsletter Sugar

Is saturated fat worse than sugar?

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Zoë 0 Comments glucose, IHTAG, insulin, member, saturated fat, sugar

Executive Summary * A paper was published in Diabetes Care in May 2020 called “Intrahepatic fat and postprandial glycemia increase

Macronutrients Newsletter Sugar

Sugar vs Carbohydrate – what’s the difference?

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 Zoë 5 Comments added sugars, carbohydrates, disaccharide, free sugars, member, monosaccharide, polysaccharide, sugar

The story for this week was inspired by a tweet by someone with whom I’ve written a couple of academic

Conflicts of Interest Heart Disease Macronutrients Newsletter Podcasts Sugar

Sugar vs. fat conspiracy

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments ancel keys, dietary fat, heart deaths, heart disease, john yudkin, member, sugar

I’m quite partial to a conspiracy theory and there were a couple emanating from America last week – one far

Academic Research Macronutrients Newsletter Obesity Sugar

Are we wrong to focus on sugar to try to tackle obesity?

July 18, 2016August 15, 2016 Zoë 1 Comment BMI, calories, carbohydrates, dietary fat, member, sugar

This week’s story didn’t make a big impact. I spotted it on a left hand side page (p22) in one

Motivation Newsletter Other Diets & Books Sugar

Two thirds of Brits on a diet most of the time

March 14, 2016August 15, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments dieting, eat less do more, member

I have never smoked. I have never even put a cigarette between my lips; never wondered what it would be

Academic Research Sugar

Sugar the evidence

January 19, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 25 Comments addiction, cardiovascular disease, Cochrane, conflict of interest, fizzy drinks, Obesity, sugar, sugar sweetened, sugar the evidence, sweetener, tooth decay

Just as this page documents recent academic articles questioning current dietary advice, so this page documents recent academic articles about

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

Food Companies Newsletter Public Health Sugar

Sugar tax – what and why?

October 26, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments Coca-Cola, kellogg's, Kelly Brownell, Mars, member, sugar tax

Last week’s news has been full of stories about a sugar tax. A report from Public Health England (PHE) was

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Lecanemab for Alzheimer’s Disease
Ultra-processed food & health
Alcohol & mortality
MIND diet & cognitive decline
Protein & Cirrhosis of the liver
Breakfast timing & risk of T2D
Keto-like diet & heart disease
The PURE study – diet, CVD & mortality in 80 countries
The Basics of Nutrition – Minerals
The Basics of Nutrition – Vitamins
The Basics of Nutrition – Macronutrients
Saturated fat & Parkinson’s Disease
DASH vs very low carb – an RCT

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