Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Exercise

Exercise Newsletter 

Does exercise improve the effectiveness of COVID vaccination?

January 30, 2023February 26, 2023 Zoë 1 Comment COVID-19, exercise, member

Executive summary * A study was conducted in South Africa to test the hypothesis that exercise improves the effectiveness of

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Exercise Newsletter 

TRE, HIIT and HbA1c

November 7, 2022November 27, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments HIIT, member, TRE

Executive summary * This week’s study was a 7-week randomised controlled trial. It assigned 131 Norwegian women (aged 18-45, with

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Exercise Newsletter 

How much exercise is enough?

August 29, 2022September 12, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments exercise, government guidelines, member

Executive summary * This week’s note looks at a population study of almost half a million US adults, followed for

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Exercise Macronutrients Newsletter 

Sarcopenia & Protein

January 31, 2022February 8, 2022 Zoë 8 Comments exercise, member, protein

Executive summary * A study was published that claimed 1) a lower Sarcopenia Risk Score (SRS) was associated with a

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Exercise Newsletter 

Weight loss vs fitness for health risks

October 18, 2021October 31, 2021 Zoë 5 Comments cardiovascular disease, fitness, member, mortality, Obesity

Executive summary * A paper has just been published, which examined the benefits of increasing fitness and physical activity vs

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Calories Exercise Newsletter 

Energy compensation & adiposity

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Zoë 5 Comments calorie theory, exercise, member, Obesity

Executive summary * A paper was published in August 2021, which generated the headline "Exercise reduces the number of calories

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Exercise Newsletter 

The ‘Fat but fit’ debate

February 15, 2021October 13, 2021 Zoë 0 Comments Diabetes, exercise, hypertension, member, Obesity

Executive summary * A study was published on January 22nd, 2021 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. * It

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Exercise Newsletter Red Meat 

Sarcopenia & diet

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Zoë 2 Comments epidemiology, member, protein, red meat, sarcopenia

Executive summary Please login to view this content By the way Before I get to the subject of this week’s

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Calories Exercise Newsletter 

Why we can’t outrun a bad diet

October 23, 2017June 3, 2020 Zoë 4 Comments calories, energy balance, exercise, member, thermodynamics

There’s been a recent twitter debate about diet vs. exercise in weight loss. One side has the view “You can’t

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Exercise Newsletter 

Sedentary behaviour

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Zoë 8 Comments exercise, member, Public Health England

Humans beings have survived thus far because we have managed to acquire at least as much energy as we have

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