Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Diabetes

Diabetes Newsletter 

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Type 2 Diabetes

March 11, 2019May 24, 2019 Zoë 0 Comments carbohydrates, conflicts of interest, dietary guidelines, member, type 2 diabetes

Today’s note was planned to be last Monday’s note, but the spiteful attack from the Mail on Sunday needed addressing

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Diabetes Newsletter Whole Grains 

Does skipping breakfast increase the risk of Type 2 Diabetes?

February 18, 2019February 17, 2019 Zoë 9 Comments breakfast, Cholesterol, epidemiology, member, type 2 diabetes

Introduction One of my lovely supporters, Andrew Martin, sent me a study from November 2018 which I missed (Ref 1).

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Diabetes Public Health Whole Grains 

Plant based diet or plant-biased research?

November 14, 2018March 10, 2019 Zoë 10 Comments plant based diets, type 2 diabetes, Vegan

On 7th November (2018) I submitted a rapid response to an article called “Effectiveness of plant-based diets in promoting well-being

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Diabetes Newsletter 

World diabetes day

November 12, 2018November 15, 2018 Zoë 7 Comments carbohydrate, Diabetes, member, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, world diabetes day

World Diabetes Day is held on the 14th November each year. In last year’s newsletter I looked at the International

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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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Diabetes Newsletter Women's Health 

Type 1 diabetes and gluten

September 24, 2018September 24, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments gluten, grains, member, type 1 diabetes, whole grains

This week’s interesting paper was genuinely attention grabbing for the simple reason that it reported an association of double. We

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Diabetes Newsletter Other Diets & Books 

Keto diet, mice & diabetes

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Zoë 5 Comments Diabetes, ketogenic, ketones, member, mice

This is my favourite part of Dr Jason Fung’s fabulous book The Obesity Code. It’s called “The Parable of the

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Diabetes Newsletter 

Cereals spike blood glucose

July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Zoë 1 Comment blood glucose, cereals, Diabetes, member

On 11th June 2018, during “Diabetes Week”, I tweeted: “T2D prevention plan: Give everyone a Libre blood glucose device for

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Diabetes Newsletter 

Diet for Type 2 Diabetes (DiRECT) (Part 2)

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Zoë 8 Comments low calorie diet, low carb diet, member, type 2 diabetes

There has been much interest in the DiRECT diet – the low calorie intervention for putting type 2 diabetes (T2D)

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Diabetes Newsletter 

Diet for Type 2 Diabetes (DiRECT)

February 12, 2018September 2, 2020 Zoë 2 Comments low calorie diet, low carb diet, member, type 2 diabetes

Other than finding a cure for cancer, there is probably no greater prize in healthcare than curing Type 2 Diabetes.

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