News – The Harcombe Diet Club

The evidence behind five-a-day

Introduction I shared last week that my key issue with five-a-day is that it is not evidence based. For something

Introduction I am known for challenging a number of dietary beliefs – dietary fat is bad… saturated fat is worse…

Introduction On January 25th, 2021, we looked at the latest publication from the DIETFITS trial (Ref 1). This acronym comes

Introduction An obesity drug remains one of the biggest opportunities for pharmaceutical companies, but it has proved to be one

Introduction The UK National Institute for Care & Health Excellence (NICE) undertook a rapid review of vitamin D for the

Introduction There has long been a debate as to whether someone can be ‘fat but fit’ (Ref 1). The phrase

Introduction Many thanks to Mark Benson for this week’s topic. Mark is a recently retired ophthalmic surgeon, who was involved

Introduction I saw a couple of people in the low carb world tweet about this week’s study. It was published

Introduction A study was published in the International Journal of Obesity this month (January 2021). It was called "Examining differences

Introduction We’re going back to November 2020 for this week’s note. The subject is topical because Dr David Diamond and

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