Background - Dr Zoe Harcombe (Ph.D.) (Source: Zoe Harcombe)

I'm a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health. Her particular areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary fat), nutrition and obesity. I've got a BA and MA from Cambridge University (economics/maths). I’m proud to have been the first pupil from my state (comprehensive) school to have graduated from Cambridge. I was even more proud to be voted college student president by my peers while there – only the second female president in over 630 years (well it did take them almost that long to admit women!).  In 2016, I was awarded a Ph.D. in public health nutrition. My thesis title was “An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological evidence for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” The full document is available to site members.

My dietary advice can be summed up as:

1) Eat real food;

2) A maximum of three times a day; (One of my favourite sayings is: “Unless you are a cow, or want to be the size of one: Stop Grazing!”)

3) Manage carbohydrate intake.

I’ve sat next to people at dinners and, when they hear what I do, they often say “Oh – you’ll be watching what I eat then?” I reply “I don’t actually care what you eat; I care that you know what you should eat.”  

Read More About Zoe at her website: zoeharycombe.com