Zoe Harcombe is a slim lady , I understand that until recently she was a vegetarian and has only recently started eating meat again.
This is how her daily diet was described a neswpaper article in Oct 2010,
“I have porridge with plain oats every morning,” she says.
“For lunch, I have a massive cheese salad with four types of cheese, fennel, beetroot, alfafa sprouts, dark leaves and loads of olive oil and I stuff in lots of salad leaves for plenty of filler.
“And for dinner, I’ll have something like a butternut squash curry with brown rice.
“There’s absolutely no excuse for ready meals – who hasn’t got time to put a pork chop under the grill or make a pasta sauce with wholewheat pasta?
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/healt ... -27400240/
The rest of the article describes her recent ideas in her new book. They obviously owe a lot to G Taubes . However her arguments about eating lots of meat, not eating fibre etc ldon't seem to match with her own daily diet .Presumably this was the type of food that has kept her weighing 8 stone for the last 15 years. (and its full of fibre, veggies, whole grains and no meat!)
Pianoman:
I'm a firm believer in staying open-minded to all sides of any discussion -- otherwise, like I said above, we might all still be living in caves, eating rocks
You might like to read the blogpost on 11th August by Stephan Guyenet,'The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination.' ( warning :it will take a long time to get throught the comments and follow up posts !) Stephan is a prominent paleoblogger but he also is a researcher at the Univ of Washington studying the neurobiology of lipid regulation. Stephan is not the first to challenge Taubes but at last someone has generated a proper debate