Zoë Harcombe

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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

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The UK diet – then and now

February 22, 2016August 15, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments calories, Family Food Survey, meat, member, processed food, trends, what the UK eats

Last week’s papers were full of details about how the UK diet has changed over the years. The BBC covered

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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

Calories Media Watch Newsletter

The real truth about calories

March 30, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments 3500 formula, calorie formula, calories, carbohydrates, dietary fat, member, thermodynamics

There’s a BBC 1 series going on at the moment: The truth about… The first episode was about sugar; the

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Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story

January 5, 2015August 22, 2016 Zoë 26 Comments #myfatstory, calories, dieting, eat less do more, exercise, katie hopkins, my fat story, Obesity, reality TV, weight gain, weight loss

The starting aim and metrics “Katie Hopkins: My Fat story” was a programme aired in two parts on TLC on

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Alcohol and health

November 10, 2014August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments Alcohol, calories, cancer, member, NHS, NICE

The issue of alcohol and calories proved to be of much interest to a number of recipients of this note.

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Alcohol, calories, labels and disingenuity

November 2, 2014July 27, 2016 Zoë 21 Comments Alcohol, calories, food labels, Royal Society for Public Health, RSPH, weight and alcohol

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) published a press release on 31st October 2014 calling on the drinks industry

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Was the genetics programme about genetics?

May 28, 2013August 3, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments BMI, calories, eat less do more, genetics, member, processed food

On Thursday 23rd May (2013), Channel 4 aired a programme called “Fat Family Tree”. It had good PR coverage the

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England’s Obesity Strategy (not)

October 17, 2011July 1, 2016 Zoë 9 Comments Andrew Lansley, calories, change4life, Coca-Cola, conflict of interest, daily calorie allowances, Department of Health, eat less, eat real food, england obesity strategy, how to lose weight, mcdonalds, Obesity, professor dame sally davies, SACN, The Obesity Epidemic

On Thursday 13 October, 2011, the Department of Health issued this press release, optimistically called “Government calls time on obesity.”

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Exercise – personal experience – part 2

May 30, 2011July 31, 2016 Zoë 13 Comments burning fat, calories, exercise, gym, lose weight

This blog has attracted a few comments – any suggestion that exercise is not going to make a person slim

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