Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Cancer

Cancer Newsletter 

Plant based diets & bowel cancer

February 20, 2023February 26, 2023 Zoë 8 Comments bowel cancer, member, plant based diets

Executive Summary * This week’s paper was based on the MultiEthnic Cohort Study. This is a population study of more

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Cancer Diabetes Newsletter Red Meat 

Does meat cause CVD & T2D?

October 31, 2022November 27, 2022 Zoë 4 Comments cardiovascular disease, member, red meat, type 2 diabetes

Executive summary * An umbrella review was conducted with the aim of examining all evidence related to meat intake and

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Cancer Newsletter 

Fats & Bladder cancer

August 8, 2022September 12, 2022 Zoë 2 Comments bladder cancer, dietary fat, member. cancer

Executive Summary * This week’s note looks at a paper which examined the association between dietary fat intake (all fats,

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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

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Cancer Newsletter 

Aspirin & cancer survival

September 6, 2021October 14, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments aspirin, bowel cancer, breast cancer, cancer, mortality, prostate cancer

Executive summary * Low dose aspirin has been the subject of much research in the fields of cancer and cardiovascular

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Cancer Newsletter 

Red meat and bowel cancer

April 29, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 4 Comments bowel cancer, epidemiology, member, red meat

Introduction I started getting emails early on the morning of April 17th. People were sending me this story from the

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Blood Pressure Cancer Diabetes Heart Disease Newsletter Public Health 

Diet and deaths

April 8, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 6 Comments epidemiology, fruit and veg, member, red meat, sugary drinks, whole grains

Introduction The Lancet is pumping out diet articles at quite a rate. The most recent study was published on 3rd

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Cancer Heart Disease Newsletter 

Whole grains, CVD, cancer & mortality

August 6, 2018August 13, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments cancer, epidemiology, heart disease, member, mortality, whole grains

A couple of supporters have emailed to ask if I would look at a particular article. The study is from

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Cancer Newsletter Red Meat 

Red meat & Cancer

April 9, 2018November 7, 2018 Zoë 3 Comments bowel cancer, cancer, IARC, member, processed meat, red meat

It is estimated that 1 in 2 people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime (Ref 1). US

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Cancer Newsletter 

Processed food & cancer

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments cancer, epidemiology, member, processed food

It is quite incredible that we waited until February 2018 before seeing the headline: ”Ultra-processed foods ‘linked to cancer’” (Ref

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