The Harcombe Diet: The Recipe Book
Zoë was the first pupil from her state school to graduate from Cambridge University, having won a scholarship to read mathematics/economics at this famous institution. What no one knew at the time was that, having been anorexic as a teenager, Zoë had developed bulimia before starting her studies at Cambridge. She sat in her historic room, stuffing her face with food, and asked the million dollar question: “Why do I overeat? When all I want is to be slim?” So started over a decade of research into obesity, overeating and weight loss. During her 20’s Zoë experienced food cravings to rival any drug addiction and discovered that there are three medical conditions that cause these food cravings. And so her first book came about: “Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim.” Published in 2004, it continues to change the lives of people who read it. Since putting her own advice into practice, Zoë has lived craving free and a constant 8 stone for over 15 years. She no longer suffers from any of the conditions that cause insatiable cravings and she knows how to make sure that these conditions never return. “Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight: The Harcombe Diet” was first published in 2008, to share the message with readers world-wide. This recipe book is the perfect accompaniment to all of Zoë’s books. Zoë has also appeared on TV and Radio and writes regularly for magazines and newspapers.  Zoë has a Diploma in Diet & Nutrition and a Diploma in Clinical Weight Management, but she is first and foremost an obesity researcher. She has also found that the majority of nutritional information currently being taught (to dieticians and nutritionists) is wrong and that all dietary advisors need to be far more challenging and far less accepting of what they are being told. Solving the obesity epidemic relies upon such people, who really do want to make a difference, questioning their founding beliefs in the way that Zoë has done. Zoë’s personal experience has also proved invaluable in this journey – to have effectively done the Minnesota starvation experiment as a teenager provides an understanding that no text book can match. Researchers writing –  “TCB1 Antagonism Exerts Specific Molecular Effects on Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat and Reverses Liver Steatosis in Diet-Induced Obese Mice“ – have no general understanding of obesity and likely have never even been on a diet or had first hand experience of the misery of overweight and hunger. Zoë has.