Zoë Harcombe

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The best rebuttals for nutritional myths

May 8, 2023June 15, 2023 Zoë 8 Comments five-a-day, member, nutrition myths, saturated fat

Executive Summary This note takes 10 nutritional myths and aims to provide the best rebuttal for each of them. The

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

Fruit Newsletter Public Health

The evidence behind five-a-day

March 22, 2021March 21, 2021 Zoë 10 Comments five-a-day, member, the evidence for five a day

Executive Summary * Last week’s note looked at the latest epidemiological study claiming an association between intake of fruit and

Fruit Newsletter Public Health

How much fruit & veg is optimal?

March 15, 2021September 27, 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 –

The 500th Monday note!

October 12, 2020October 11, 2020 Zoë 6 Comments animal protein, calorie theory, cancer, Cholesterol, COVID-19, five-a-day, red meat, statins

Introduction This is the 500th Monday note! They started in January 2011 in our online club www.theharcombedietclub.com and then became

Newsletter Other Foods

Coffee makes you live longer?

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Zoë 2 Comments coffee, EPIC study, epidemiology, five-a-day, member, mortality

I love coffee. I start the day with a huge, milky cappuccino – with caffeine – and then switch to

Fruit & veg is a marker, not maker, of health

April 13, 2017June 21, 2018 Zoë 4 Comments epidemiology, five-a-day, fruit and veg

I’ve said in a number of posts (here and here, for example) that fruit and veg intake is a marker

Academic Research Fruit

Now 10-a-day Supplemental

March 7, 2017January 13, 2018 Zoë 13 Comments 10 a day, cancer, CHD, CVD, five-a-day, fruit, heart disease, mortality

Further to this post, one of the most interesting findings of this recent study was that individual fruits and vegetables

Fruit Newsletter Public Health

Now 10-a-day?!

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 Zoë 7 Comments five-a-day, fruit and veg, heart disease, member, mortality

It was 23rd February 2017 and I was over in Breckenridge when friends started to send me links to media

Newsletter Public Health

Review of 2014

December 31, 2014October 12, 2018 Zoë 0 Comments 3500 calories, animal protein, aspirin, calorie theory, cancer, carbohydrates, Cholesterol, coffee, conflicts of interest, depression, Diabetes, dietary fat, dieting, disability, discrimination, eatwell plate, fasting, fat shaming, five-a-day, gastric balloon, health eating, heart disease, low carb, low fat, NICE, Obesity, plant sterols, SACN, saturated fat, statins, sugar, weight loss, WHO, whole grains

These are the topics that I’ve researched and blogged about this year: January When will public health authorities realise the

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