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Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

Part 154 - Zoe Harcombe PhD on the Upside Down World of Health Policy

Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

Brian Sanders

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Zoe Harcombe, PhD is a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health. Her areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary fat), nutrition and obesity. She regularly is interviewed on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.
 
She has a BA and MA from Cambridge University (economics/maths) as well as a Ph.D. in public health nutrition. Her 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."
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SHOW NOTES

  • [1:30] - Zoe's background and why she wrote her thesis on the lack of evidence for the introduction of food guidelines
  • [4:30] - Cutting calories and why it doesn't work to focus on it 
  • [10:40] - Brian asks Zoe how to properly lose fat
  • [16:30] - Zoe's take on low carb and what she thinks we should be eating 
  • [27:40] - Zoe's take on animal vs plant foods in relation to nutrition and protein content
  • [39:30] - Zoe's take on the Food Pyramid and how we got into this awful situation 
  • [50:05] - Power dynamics in society and how it relates to our approach towards kids' health in western societies
  • [1:07:40] - Zoe's thoughts on the World Health Organization and The Great Reset
  • [1:20:50] - How this conversation ties into the ostracisation on red meat and the organizations behind it

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm human.

0:02.0

Luzuma to Lorme

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Meer.

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She fajh fajr mano.

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That's your po'erhengen.

0:09.0

I kuningen.

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I kume, I kume, or with your own momo.

0:12.0

He called the Danielle Rie Hie Hold. Well, hello again. Welcome back to Peak Human. I'm Brian Sanders. Make sure to start back at episode one, go back and listen to all the great episodes,

0:36.0

share with family and friends, and of course leave us a review on iTunes or any other podcast app that really helps.

0:42.0

Today I'm talking to Dr. Zoy Harcombe. any other podcast app that really helps.

0:42.5

Today I'm talking to Dr. Zoi Harcombe.

0:45.0

I had her back on the show a long time ago.

0:47.1

She is excellent, fantastic, such a great conversation

0:50.5

the first time and even better this time.

0:52.5

People love that episode and I think they're going to love this one even more.

0:56.0

We talk about a lot of interesting stuff.

0:58.0

I'll say interesting, I don't want to sound off the alarms.

1:01.5

We get into some edgy stuff in the second half and I think

1:04.7

people will really enjoy her take. She's over in the UK. She's fighting the

1:08.8

good fight. She's also fighting the good fight in nutrition. She has done her PhD on the

1:14.4

dietary guidelines and how bogus they are. So before I get on to more about her

1:19.2

I have a few updates got some big news. If you're in Austin, this will be even bigger news. I'm getting

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