Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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polyunsaturated fat

Newsletter Public Health 

The impact of a 10% limit on saturated fat

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Zoë 7 Comments dietary guidelines for americans, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

Executive summary This is a short note with a big finding. Introduction I know someone who was diagnosed with pre-diabetes

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Dairy Heart Disease Macronutrients Newsletter 

Dietary Fat & Mortality

May 18, 2020August 3, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments dietary fat, heart disease, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

Executive summary Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet and disease. More specifically dietary fat

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Heart Disease Newsletter Public Health 

SACN (UK) final report on saturated fat

August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 Zoë 19 Comments dairy, dietary guidelines, polyunsaturated fat, SACN, saturated fat, unsaturated fat

Executive summary * In June 2014, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) was tasked with reviewing the role

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Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health 

Saturated Fat Consultation (SACN) – My Response

July 2, 2018August 6, 2018 Zoë 9 Comments cardiovascular disease, conflict of interest, coronary heart disease, polyunsaturated fat, SACN, saturated fat

At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary

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Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health 

SACN report on saturated fat

May 14, 2018May 15, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, epidemiology, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, randomised control trial, saturated fat

Saturated fat is under the spotlight at the moment. Between February 28th and March 30th 2018, the US dietary guidelines

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Heart Disease Newsletter 

Plant sterols lower cholesterol but increase risk of heart disease

April 30, 2018March 21, 2019 Zoë 0 Comments heart disease, member, monounsaturated fat, plant sterols, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

In last week’s newsletter we noted that the original dietary fat trials did not support the introduction of the dietary

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Macronutrients Red Meat 

Saturated fat

January 21, 2018January 27, 2018 Zoë 26 Comments dietary fat, dietary guidelines, monounsaturated fat, olive oil, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

Here’s a slide that I present during some presentations e.g. here 10 mins in. It makes a few points: 1)

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Food Companies Heart Disease Newsletter 

Soybean heart healthy claim

October 2, 2017December 23, 2017 Zoë 1 Comment Cholesterol, coronary heart disease, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat, soybean

Many thanks to Sally Fallon Morell for this week’s topic. Sally sent me notification of a recent FDA (U.S. Food

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Heart Disease Newsletter Public Health 

The PURE study

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 Zoë 3 Comments carbohydrate, dietary fat, epidemiology, member, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, saturated fat

Did you ever think you’d wake up to the headline “Low-fat diets could increase the risk of an early death:

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Academic Research Heart Disease Newsletter 

Replacing saturated with polyunsaturated fat

June 5, 2017June 12, 2017 Zoë 3 Comments cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, epidemiology, member, polyunsaturated fat, randomised control trial, saturated fat

On 19th May 2017, another paper challenging current dietary fat guidelines was published. This one emanated from Deakin University, Australia,

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