Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Newsletter Public Health Red Meat

Plant-based diets & COVID-19

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Zoë 4 Comments COVID-19, epidemiology, high protein diet, low carb diet, plant based diets

Executive Summary * A paper was published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health on June 7th, 2021. It led to

Heart Disease Newsletter Red Meat

Meat & disease – again!

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Zoë 2 Comments epidemiology, heart disease, member, red meat

Executive Summary * Yet another epidemiological paper has been published reporting associations between meat intake and different conditions. * This

Fruit Newsletter Public Health

How much fruit & veg is optimal?

March 15, 2021March 14, 2021 Zoë 11 Comments epidemiology, five-a-day, member, mortality

Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction I am known for challenging a number of dietary beliefs –

Newsletter Other Foods

Nuts & cognitive ability

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Zoë 4 Comments cognitive ability, epidemiology, member, nuts

Executive summary * A study was published which claimed that intake of nuts was inversely related to risk of cognitive

Academic Research Newsletter

The hierarchy of evidence

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Zoë 0 Comments epidemiology, member, meta-analysis, observational study, randomised controlled trial, systematic review

Introduction Many thanks to Mike for suggesting this note. Mike wanted to understand more about the types of studies that

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

Heart Disease Newsletter

Eating late & cardiac risk

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 Zoë 3 Comments epidemiology, heart disease, lifestyle, member

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction I was in a waiting area on Tuesday 12th November 2019

Newsletter Public Health

How to assess evidence in nutrition

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Zoë 0 Comments dietary guidelines, epidemiology, evidence, member, randomised controlled trials

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction I’ve just got back from the west coast of the US

Newsletter Red Meat

Meat guidelines – the evidence

October 7, 2019December 3, 2019 Zoë 8 Comments cancer, cardiovascular disease, epidemiology, randomised controlled trials, red meat

Executive summary * Six papers about red and processed meat were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on 30th

Diabetes Newsletter

Plant based diets & type 2 diabetes

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Zoë 2 Comments epidemiology, member, plant based diets, type 2 diabetes

Executive summary * Yet another paper was published from the Harvard epidemiology production line. This one claimed that eating plant-based

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Plant-based diets & COVID-19
SACN report on lowER carb diets for T2D
A healthy vegetarian diet
Bariatric surgery 10 years on
Do we have a weight set point?
Bad diets, heart disease & deaths
Transmission of Covid-19 post vaccination
Should Low Carb be High Fat or High Protein?
Anorexia – in memory of Nikki Grahame
Meat & disease – again!
Risk factors for women & heart disease
Do we need to pay people to lose weight?
The evidence behind five-a-day
How much fruit & veg is optimal?
DIETFITS – who did best?

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