Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

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Food & Nutrition Newsletter Obesity

The chocolate study that fooled the world

April 10, 2023April 29, 2023 Zoë 4 Comments chocolate, chocolate scam, member, weight, weight loss

Executive Summary * In 2015, three German reporters set about trying to do a study, which would get published in

Diet & Weight Newsletter

Christmas & weight gain

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Zoë 7 Comments christmas, dieting, member, weight

Executive summary * The festive period is notorious for weight gain and this phenomenon has been the subject of academic

Newsletter Women's Health

Chocolate for breakfast may help fat burning

July 5, 2021July 4, 2021 Zoë 4 Comments chocolate, fat burning, member, weight

Executive summary * A study was published, which was press-released with the claim "consuming milk chocolate may be a fat-burner

Diabetes Newsletter

Liquid diets & weight regain

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Zoë 2 Comments member, type 2 diabetes, very low calorie diet, weight

Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction One of my favourite academic papers was published in 2007, by

Dairy Newsletter

Dairy & disease – revisiting the evidence

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Zoë 2 Comments cancer, dairy, heart disease, member, type 2 diabetes, weight

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction In July 2019, the Monday note covered a paper written by

Conferences Newsletter

Low Carb Denver 2019

March 18, 2019April 9, 2019 Zoë 9 Comments conference, Diabetes, low carb denver, nutrition, weight

Low Carb Denver started as Low Carb Vail in 2016. It was then Low Carb Breckenridge in 2017 and 2018

Macronutrients Newsletter Other Diets & Books

Slimming World’s view of low carb diets

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 Zoë 13 Comments carbohydrates, dieting, low carb diet, weight

The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging

Academic Research Macronutrients Newsletter Public Health

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015

January 11, 2016January 13, 2018 Zoë 22 Comments Alcohol, carbohydrates, Cholesterol, dietary fat, dietary guidelines, dietary guidelines for americans, eat real food, fake food, fruit, Obesity, salt, saturated fat, sugar, weight

Did you know that, until the final quarter of the twentieth century, public health dietary advice in the US and

Academic Research Macronutrients Newsletter Obesity Other Diets & Books

Did a low fat diet beat a low carb diet for fat loss?

March 9, 2015July 31, 2016 Zoë 34 Comments diet intervention, dietary fat, fat burning, fat loss, low carb, low carb diet, low fat, low fat diet, Obesity, randomised control trial, weight, weight loss

A story emerged on March 5th 2015 from the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Diego. It was

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Did Finland prove that reducing (saturated) fat reduces heart disease?
Heart healthy diets
Mediterranean diet, women & heart disease
The best rebuttals for nutritional myths
Weight change & dying in older adults
Low-carb diets & insulin resistance
Pre-diabetes diet advice
The chocolate study that fooled the world
LCHF vs HCLF for athletic performance
Carbs & cardiovascular disease
Diets, health & carbon footprint
Does Erythritol sweetener cause cardiac incidents?
DIAMOND diet trial for type 2 diabetes
DASH vs American diet
Plant based diets & bowel cancer

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