Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health

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 23 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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NICE, Vitamin D & Covid-19
The ‘Fat but fit’ debate
Type 2 diabetes & diet – how low should low carb be?
Nuts & cognitive ability
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Statins – side effects or nocebo effect?
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025
Review of 2020
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 – The Lancet Papers
The impact of a 10% limit on saturated fat
The Case For Keto
Vegans & bone fractures
Eggs, diabetes and Chinese adults
Essay on The Obesity Epidemic

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