Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Weight loss correlates with low carb, not low calorie

August 4, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 11 Comments carbohydrates, fat, isocaloric diets, low calorie, low calorie diet, low carb, low carb diet

This is extracted from: “The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it?” Marjorie R. Freedman, Janet King,

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Horizon: Sugar vs. Fat – Follow-up

May 6, 2014July 25, 2016 Zoë 5 Comments bodpod, Cholesterol, Diabetes, fat, fat composition, glucose tolerance, Horizon, Horizon sugar vs fat programme, ketogenic, muscle mass, sugar, weight loss

This is a follow-up to this post. There were a number of issues with this programme, but one that particularly

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Removing cola from the eatbadly plate does not make it eatwell!

April 21, 2014August 2, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments Balance of good health plate, carbohydrates, Coca-Cola, eatbadly plate, eatwell plate, fat, food groups, member, starchy foods

I can claim to have inspired this week’s story, but certainly not the outcome. The newsletter of 5th January 2014

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Horizon: Sugar vs. Fat

February 3, 2014July 21, 2016 Zoë 47 Comments bodpod, Cholesterol, Diabetes, eat real food, fat, fat composition, fructose, glucose tolerance, Horizon, Horizon sugar vs fat programme, ketogenic, muscle mass, sugar, weight loss

The big news story last week was an experiment done with identical twins on the BBC Horizon programme. A friend

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Australian Dietary Guidelines (Feb 2013)

February 27, 2013August 21, 2016 Zoë 17 Comments Australian Dietary Guidelines, australian obesity, carbohydrates, Coca-Cola, dietary guidelines, dietary guidelines for americans, eatbadly plate, eatwell plate, fat, healthy eating, Obesity, protein

New Australian Dietary Guidelines were published on February 18th 2013. Hundreds of pages of information are available here. The main

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Traffic Light Labelling – how does it work?

October 22, 2012August 21, 2016 Zoë 12 Comments Coca-Cola, dietary guidelines, fat, food labeling, food labelling, food retailers, salt, saturated fat, sugar

UK food retailers have apparently bowed to pressure and are on the verge of introducing the traffic lights food labelling

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The men who made us fat – Episode 2

June 21, 2012August 21, 2016 Zoë 18 Comments Coca-Cola, exercise, fat, food policy, Hank Cordello, Jacques Peretti, Jesters diner, Kelly Brownell, mcdonalds, Obesity, Peninsula Medical School, pepsi, Philip James, portion sizes, supersizing, value meals

Here we go again! Episode 2 with Jacques Peretti. 24 million of us are now overweight “Our appetites supersized by

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The men who made us fat

June 14, 2012August 21, 2016 Zoë 29 Comments ancel keys, Coca-Cola, David Kessler, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, dietary guidelines for americans, fat, food policy, Gary Taubes, Jacques Peretti, john yudkin, Marion Nestle, McGovern committee, Obesity, Philip James, Robert Lustig, sugar

I’ve just finished watching this terrific programme on BBC2 (Thursday 14th June 2012). It will be on iplayer for just

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Make Friends With Fats

September 19, 2011October 18, 2018 Zoë 6 Comments dietary fat, fat, Obesity, processed food, saturated fat, the seven countries study, unsaturated fat

Here is the full presentation that I did at The Abergavenny Food Festival on Saturday, 17th September. And you can

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Olive Oil can Tap Dance!

April 21, 2010October 18, 2018 Zoë 19 Comments fat, Mediterranean diet, monounsaturated fat, olive oil, pork, saturated fat

Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of

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