Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Low carb diets could shorten life (really?!)

August 23, 2018September 4, 2018 Zoë 39 Comments association, carbohydrates, causation, epidemiology, Harvard, meta-analysis, relative risk

The BBC headline was ”Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests” (Ref 1). In the US, CNN went with “Low

Dairy Macronutrients Research

Butter or margarine?

October 3, 2015August 21, 2016 Zoë 25 Comments Butter, dietary guidelines, eat real food, Harvard, heart disease, margarine, nurses health study, saturated fat, trans fats, unsaturated fat

Another paper has been produced by the Harvard team, which likes to analyse data for associations between food and health.

Academic Research Cancer Diabetes Exercise Heart Disease

Inactivity killing as many as smoking (really?!)

July 23, 2012August 21, 2016 Zoë 7 Comments breast cancer, colon cancer, coronary heart disease, exercise, Harvard, inactivity, type 2 diabetes

We woke up on July 18th 2012 to the news “Inactivity ‘killing as many as smoking‘”. The headlines were from

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