Saturated Fat is an essential part of a healthy diet. Far from causing health problems, it alleviates them by helping reduce weight and the absorption of essentual, fat soluble, vitamins.

Saturated Fats - Three reasons why they are essential.

Come and enjoy Zoë Harcombe and guests chat about what’s important to you in the world of Diet & Health Today. This show has something for everyone who’s concerned about their own health and the health of their family and friends, with up-to-date science, advice and tips from leading diet, health and exercise professionals.

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 Nick Thompson is a vet. He has been fighting for responsible, species-appropriate raw food feeding for pets for over 25 years. His tireless drive for healthy pets from birth to graceful old age brought him to raw feeding  in the mid-1990s. We struggled to keep this to an hour covering so much of interest to animal lovers and pet owners – as well as anyone interested in diet and health…   For video of interview and transcript, visit https://zoeharcombe.com

Zoë chats with Nick Thompson, aka The Holistic Vet

In this really varied podcast (a bit over an hour), Gary and Zoë cover topics from bad science to sugar. There were many prepared questions, but the first question took a really interesting direction, which led to the uncovering of many varied topics. For video and transcript, visit https://zoeharcombe.com

Gary Taubes and Zoë chat about science, diabetes, journalism and books

In this wonderful meeting of minds, Georgia and Zoë  talk about why the dietary guidelines are just about the opposite of what we should be advised to eat.  They discuss how they both got into the world of diet and health and why they now think as they do. Georgia shares when and how she personally realised that many plants were ‘not her friends’ and how she resolved this. They cover animal foods vs plant foods, nutrients, anti-nutrients and what we need to base meals on. For full show notes, transcripts and video, visit www.zoeharcombe.com

Zoë chats with Dr Georgia Ede about diets

 In a lively hour, Gareth and Zoë discuss all things farming from BAFTA nominations, supermarket power, fair prices for produce, diversification, the weather, the ‘Beast from the East’, to Brian May, badgers and, of course, Clarkson’s Farm.

Gareth Wyn Jones and Zoë chat about modern farming

 Dr Ian Lake is a UK General Practitioner and a person with Type 1 Diabetes, T1D. He was diagnosed with LADA (Late Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) Type 1 Diabetes, at age 36 and managed it with a DAFNE (Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating) style approach for the first 20 years. He changed his approach to a very low carb diet approximately 9 years ago and he shares his learnings and experiments in this podcast.  For show notes and full video of our chat, visit https://zoeharcombe.com

Saturated Fats - Three reasons why they are essential.

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