Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Exercise

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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Exercise Mental Health Newsletter 

Running on fat (1700km in 26 days!)

May 29, 2017July 29, 2020 Zoë 3 Comments exercise, LCHF, member

It’s a personal one this week. My husband is called Andy. Andy’s brother is called James. James’ running mate is

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Exercise Heart Disease Newsletter Obesity 

Heart Disease: genes vs. lifestyle

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments epidemiology, exercise, healthy diet, heart disease, member, Obesity, smoking

Many thanks to Jerome Burne for alerting me to this one. Jerome sent me a paper to take a look

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Academic Research Calories Exercise Newsletter Obesity 

‘Fitbits’ won’t make you slim, but nor will low-cal diets

September 26, 2016August 6, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments calories, dieting, exercise, member, weight watchers

A really interesting study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 20th 2016. It was

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Academic Research Cancer Diabetes Exercise Heart Disease 

Exercise: Is a lot more a lot better?

August 22, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments breast cancer, carbohydrate, colon cancer, Diabetes, exercise, heart disease, strokes

Introduction A study was published in the BMJ on 9th August 2016. The study was called “Physical activity and risk of

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Children's Health Exercise Newsletter Obesity Public Health 

UK Childhood Obesity ‘Strategy’

August 22, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 1 Comment childhood obesity, children's food campaign, exercise, Obesity

On 18th August 2016 a long awaited childhood obesity strategy was published by the UK government. The report can be

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Calories Exercise Newsletter Obesity Public Health 

Burning off calories (& food labels)

January 18, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 14 Comments 3500 calories, calorie formula, carbohydrates, exercise, food labelling, food labels

On 15 January 2016, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) called for the introduction of ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labelling

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Conflicts of Interest Exercise Food Companies Newsletter Sugar 

Coca-cola, exercise & conflicts

August 24, 2015July 31, 2016 Zoë 29 Comments BNF, british nutrition foundation, calories, Coca-Cola, conflict of interest, exercise, fake food, Global Energy Balance Network, Obesity, SACN, Scientific Advisory Commitee on Nutrition

The last couple of weeks have seen Coca-Cola in the news quite a bit. Coca-Cola has been having a tough

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Academic Research Exercise Newsletter 

You cannot outrun a bad diet

April 27, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments cardiovascular disease, Coca-Cola, eat less do more, exercise, fake food, member, NICE, Obesity

Three of the people, with whom I was honoured to share a platform at the February 2015 South African conference,

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Cholesterol Conflicts of Interest Exercise Heart Disease Public Health 

How statin drugs really lower cholesterol & kill you one cell at a time

October 25, 2013July 25, 2016 Zoë 266 Comments Cholesterol, conflict of interest, CoQ10, familial hypercholesterolemia, HDL, LDL, mevalonate pathway, National Cholesterol Education Programme, NCEP, statins

Introduction (Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review

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