Zoë Harcombe – Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet
WEBSep 16, 2024 · February 26, 2024. Executive summary * The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the organisation in the UK that sets medical guidelines. October 2, 2023. June 5, 2023. September 12, 2022.
What should we eat? – Zoë Harcombe
WEBAug 2, 2021 · We now have all the knowledge needed to establish what we should eat to get the required nutrients and to attain and maintain a healthy body weight: Principle 1) Eat real food. Principle 2) Choose that food for the nutrients it provides. (This will naturally manage carbohydrate intake).
Biography – Zoë Harcombe
WEBDr Zoë Harcombe, PhD set out to answer that question in the late 1980s and the paradox of escalating obesity and overwhelming desire to be slim, has been a constant fascination ever since. At the time of starting her research, obesity levels for men and women in the UK had reached double figures. By the end of the millennium, UK obesity rates ...
Myths & Facts – Zoë Harcombe
WEBMyths & Facts. DID YOU KNOW…? There are 0 vitamins & minerals in sugar. 2% of people maintain a 20lb weight loss. 2.7% of men & women were obese in the UK in 1972. Olive oil has 9 times the saturated fat of pork. Obesity rates for women in the UK increased 10 fold between 1972 & 1999. 90% of people in the UK will be overweight or obese by 2050.
Red meat & Type 2 Diabetes – Zoë Harcombe
WEBOctober 23, 2023 Zoë. Executive summary. * This week’s study made media headlines worldwide and generated much interest on Twitter. * It claimed that having examined data from 216,695 people, red meat intake (total, processed and unprocessed) increased the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). * This makes no sense from the outset, as ...
Stopping statins – Zoë Harcombe
WEBStopping statins. July 12, 2021. Executive summary. * A study was published in JAMA Open Network, which generated the headline ‘stopping statins linked to death and cardiovascular events in the elderly.’. * The study reviewed data from residents in Italy, aged 65 or older, who were taking several medications and then stopped prescriptions ...
We have got cholesterol completely wrong – Zoë Harcombe
WEBWe have got cholesterol completely wrong. Here are six things that we need to know about cholesterol: i) It is virtually impossible to explain how vital cholesterol is to the human body. If you had no cholesterol in your body you would be dead. No cells, no bone structure, no muscles, no hormones, no sex, no reproductive system, no digestion ...
The 2 day diet – Zoë Harcombe
WEBApr 22, 2013 · The Michael Mosley August 2012 Horizon programme started a significant interest in intermittent fasting. As my special report (free) explains here, the programme looked at a number of different restricted eating options (eating less all the time, fasting for 4 days, alternate day fasting).The option that Mosley found the most tolerable was eating ‘normally’ for 5 days and eating one ...
Media – Zoë Harcombe
WEBMay 27, 2020 · Media Diary. 2020. 3/9/2020 – Talk Radio Europe – The Carnivore Diet. 29/7/2020 – Talk Radio Europe – The US Dietary Guidelines and what we need to know about fats. 17/6/2020 – Talk Radio Europe – talking about social distancing and making value judgements about lives.. 27/5/2020 – UK Health Radio with Janey Lee Grace – the power of real food.
Keys, cholesterol and rabbits – Zoë Harcombe
WEBFeb 5, 2012 · The following quotation, attributed to Ancel Keys, has been repeated quite often, but with the source for it not always clear: “ There’s no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in the blood. None. And we’ve known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn’t matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken ...