Is The Harcombe Diet OK for someone with high cholesterol?

Q) Is the Harcombe Diet OK for someone with high cholesterol? A) Wow – there is almost a book’s worth to answer this question – I’ll try to give the headlines: 0) There’s a point before even getting to point (1), which is that we don’t actually have cholesterol freely floating around in our blood.

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Can I have fruit teas in Phase 1?

Q) Can I have fruit teas in Phase 1? A) Yes – I just group all such things under ‘herbal teas’ – so everything from peppermint to chamomile to rosehip, blackcurrent, raspberry and vanilla – any such teas are absolutely fine in any phase of the diet. They always smell better than they taste I

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Can I have Tahini?

Q) Can I have Tahini? A) Tahini is a sesame seed paste. I’ve checked my nutrition composition database and it only lists Tahini in a sesame butter form (it must be butter based, therefore). It lists 100g of tahini as containing 53g fat and 22g carb (protein is 17g and the rest is water), so

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Pumpkin & Sage Risotto

Pumpkin and Sage Risotto

This dish not only looks fantastic, but tastes amazing – the sage and pumpkin flavours work so well together. They contain potassium and vitamin A, and the seeds are really nutritious. This is also a great recipe to use up all the scooped out flesh once you’ve made your Lanterns. As regards medicinal properties –

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Vegetable Soup

Root vegetable soup

This is a real winter warming soup and it feels hearty and filling. You will need: ­ 1 large onion finely chopped, ­ 1 clove garlic finely chopped, ­ 1kg (2.2lb) of root vegetables (carrots, parsnips, swede, potatoes, beetroot, turnips etc) chopped into 1 inch cubes, ­ Olive oil for cooking (approximately 2 tablespoons), ­

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Walk the dog or go to the gym?!

The following research was commissioned by Butcher’s Dog Food food: A study of more than 1,500 dog owners and gym goers found that the average gym goer covers 468 miles per year and the average dog walker does 676 miles per year. That’s 208 more for the dog walkers! Dog owners apparently walk the equivalent

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How much a constant weight person varies day-to-day

Hi everyone Here are the results of my weighing every day experiment. I hope they help you!… I have so many communications with people who say they’ve gained or lost a pound overnight and they are either pleased or upset and I advise people NOT to weigh every day because natural variations in the body’s

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Classic Chocolate Mousse

Classic chocolate mousse

If you love chocolate this recipe is to die for. You can stand a spoon up in it and it will give you a chocolate high like you can’t imagine. It is also as close to the rules of this book as chocolate can get as it is a fat meal in essence. Eat it

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Can I eat Avocados?

Q) Can I eat avocados? A) In Phase 1, no, because an avocado is a fruit. In Phase 2, in a 150g portion of avocado, there are 23g of fat and 11g of carbohydrate. Avocados are, therefore, higher in fat than carbs, but have quite high levels of both. This means you should eat them

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Yoghurt with fat or carb meal?

Q) Should I have natural yoghurt with a fat meal or a carb meal? A) The answer is that if you have a fat meal you can have any kind of natural yoghurt – even full fat Greek yoghurt if you like it (or crème fraiche or fromage frais). With a carb meal you can’t

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