Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter

The Lipid Energy Model

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Zoë 6 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, lean mass hyper responders, lipid energy model, member

Executive summary * This week’s note builds on last week’s note about lean mass hyper-responders. This was the term developed

Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter

Lean Mass Hyper-Responders

September 5, 2022September 12, 2022 Zoë 4 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, lean mass hyper responders, member

Executive summary * The term “Lean Mass Hyper-Responder” was developed by Dave Feldman in reference to those with the combination

Cholesterol Newsletter

Eggs, cholesterol & mortality

July 25, 2022July 24, 2022 Zoë 9 Comments Cholesterol, eggs, member

Executive Summary * The paper being reviewed this week claimed that dietary cholesterol and egg intake are associated with higher

Cholesterol Newsletter

Is HDL-cholesterol bad?

June 27, 2022July 18, 2022 Zoë 4 Comments Cholesterol, HDL, heart disease, member

Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a paper, which found that very high HDL-cholesterol levels are associated with higher

Cholesterol Newsletter

Cholesterol & Coffee

May 30, 2022June 26, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments Cholesterol, coffee, member

Executive summary * This week’s note looks at the association between coffee consumption and total cholesterol. * Coffee contains two

Cholesterol Newsletter

A new look at statins, LDL-Cholesterol & CVD

May 2, 2022May 4, 2022 Zoë 9 Comments Cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, statins

Executive summary * Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT)

Review of 2021

January 3, 2022January 1, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments anorexia, aspirin, bariatric surgery, cancer, carbohydrate insulin model of obesity, chocolate, Cholesterol, Christmas weight gain, cognitive ability, COVID-19, dietary guidelines for americans, DIETFITS, efficacy, fat but fit, five-a-day, Food Compass, heart disease, inclisiran, keto diet, LCHF, LCHP, low carb diet, meat, men & women & dieting, mortality, national food strategy, NICE, NNT, nocebo effect, nuts, plant based diets, SACN, semaglutide, statins, supplements, Transmission of COVID-19, type 2 diabetes, vasectomies, vegetarian, vitamin D, weight loss, weight set point, Zoe app

These are the topics that I covered in 2021: January Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter

Inclisiran

September 13, 2021September 20, 2021 Zoë 5 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, member

Executive summary * The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (guideline setting organisation) has approved a PCSK9 inhibitor

Cholesterol Newsletter Public Health

Rebutting the cholesterol hypothesis

June 28, 2021November 8, 2021 Zoë 10 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, LDL, LDL-cholesterol, member

Executive summary * This note suggests a rapid rebuttal to the cholesterol hypothesis. * To get there, it goes through

Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter

Cholesterol & mortality – world graphs

June 21, 2021December 19, 2021 Zoë 4 Comments cardiovascular disease, Cholesterol, heart disease, member, mortality

Executive summary * This post shares my presentation, which was part of the Low Carb All Stars conference on the

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