Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Calories Food Companies Newsletter Sugar

Food companies don’t want you to know how much sugar is added

July 7, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments carbohydrates, food labeling, member, NHS, SACN, sugar

Avid readers of the Washington post may have noticed this interesting blog. As Roberto Ferdman said in the headline –

Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health Sugar Whole Grains

SACN report back on carbohydrates and health

June 30, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments carbohydrates, cardiovascular disease, Coca-Cola, conflict of interest, CVD, Diabetes, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, eat real food, fructose, fruit, member, Obesity, SACN, Scientific Advisory Commitee on Nutrition, sucrose, sugar

Background Page 1 of The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it? contains this passage alone in the

Macronutrients Media Watch Obesity Other Diets & Books Sugar

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

Academic Research Fruit Media Watch Newsletter Public Health

The five-a-day Con

April 7, 2014July 31, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments EPIC study, five-a-day, fruit, member, randomised control trial, sugar

Crikey what a busy week! No sooner had last week’s newsletter gone out, Sky News were on the phone saying

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What the UK eats (2012)

March 30, 2014February 4, 2017 Zoë 12 Comments cereal, fake food, Family Food Survey, Obesity, real food, sugar, what the UK eats

A comprehensive survey detailing what UK people eat has been available since 1940. It was called the National Food Survey

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We cannot eat less sugar & more carbohydrate

March 19, 2014August 21, 2016 Zoë 19 Comments carbohydrates, dietary advice, dietary guidelines, dietary reference values, DRVs, fructose, GDAs, glucose, guideline daily amounts, reduce sugar intake, sucrose, sugar, sugar guidelines, WHO, world health organisation

Introduction The World Health Organisation announced that “sugars should be less than 10% of total energy intake per day.” It

Medications Newsletter Sugar Women's Health

The Pill, Sugar and Scary Headlines

February 10, 2014July 31, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments blood clots, european medicines agency, hormones, medications, member, oestrogen, sugar, the pill

I hope you enjoyed the mid week dissection of the low fat dairy and diabetes headlines. I was genuinely shocked

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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

Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health Sugar

When will public health authorities realise the inconsistency in their sugar advice?

January 6, 2014July 31, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments carbohydrates, dietary guidelines, dietary reference values, fsa, GDAs, member, public health, sugar

Mintel kicked off 2014 by giving us the statistics on dieting in 2013. Apparently 65% of women and 44% of

Newsletter Obesity Other Foods

Will taxing soft drinks reduce obesity?

November 4, 2013August 3, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments member, soft drinks, sugar, sugar tax, sweeteners

We had another big news story last week – diet and health is always a much covered subject area, but

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