Is the Zoe nutrition test worth it? Or Emperor's new clothes?

[hydroxyapatite]

I've read a lot about Zoe nutrition - a much hyped, expensive nutrition package which helps you to regulate blood glucose and blood lipids, and improve your microbiome profile.'

Has anyone done this and found it worth the money? Aren't they really just testing your cholesterol levels and finding out by using a £40 monitor what foods causing a sugar spike after eating? Therefore guiding a better diet?

One customer services person could not be better - one was a bully who did not listen and blamed me for app's shortcomings. There seems to be a systemic problem of promising a fast response which is not met. In my experience communication is poor.

I did it and found it quite informative. I felt after 4 months of 'coaching' that I'd learned all I was going to so now I'm just trying to stick to the 30 per week etc myself. Although, as Weight Watchers or any eating guidance programme will tell you, it's usually easier with somebody telling you what to do.

Yes, I doubt I'll feel the need to continue after the 4 months. I'll probably use one of the CGMs at some point as a reality check.

Also I am - to my surprise - taking quite well to the food logging. I've always detested calories counting but that was in the old days of having to look things up and do the arithmetic. Scanning and the database makes it easy - but there must be other apps that do this part now. I think ideally I'd like one which did that and also integrated to my Apple Watch, I'd such a thing exists.

A bad Zoe app cannot be saved by customer services

A bad Zoe app cannot be saved by customer services

But everyone’s weak spot is saturated fats!

Ive been listening to the podcasts and the food advice in the main is sensible but not earth shattering eat natural eat brightly coloured eat fermented don’t eat upf and don’t snack all the time.

but the demonisation of white rice and porridge oats unless the latter are organic is just bollocks. The healthiest peoples in the world have rice as a staple, it’s not eating rice that’s an issue it’s the amount the things we eat it with the other crap we have in our diets that these long lived nations don’t have.

and no matter how it’s marketed people will buy the Zoe thing thinking they will lose weight. Or thinking that if they pay they will get let into some secret so it’s not hard work to lose weight and requires no effort. It’s just human nature.

TorroFerney From my listening I feel that they have actually reduced the demonisation of these foods and made it so I am able to understand the impact more. It has enabled be to make an informed choice and actually I feel less guilty having white bread or white rice now.

With regards to the organic element, it's not the foods in themselves but how they are produced that is problematic. Whilst we have been eating rice and oats for years, it is only recently that they have been mass produced and the processes and chemicals involved in this production is the problem not the food.

everyone’s weak spot is saturated fats!

Oh that's funny. I wonder what Zoe Harcombe thinks of ZoeApp (please say someone else likes the irony)

Hi

I'm interested in this but what puts me off is the heavy marketing, use of celebrities and claims that weight loss will come from it. I'd be interested in doing things myself without having to pay for the subscription and tests. The podcasts are great.

But they don’t find it hard because they don’t know what to do it’s because we have to overcome our clever bodies saying eat it eat it no not the salad the cake because there may be a famine and salad doesn’t have enough energy in it. It’s only the rich worried well and those in affluent countries ( this can be poor people in affluent countries) who have had to invent ways to lose weight other than just not eating as much. When they were showing the awful famine in Ethiopia back in the 80’s there wasn’t a little fat kid was there, no they were all starving and all skin and bones.

its bey much let’s show you why you are fat and it’s not your fault it’s because your body doesn’t process sugar/salt. Absolute bollocks, eat natural unrefined stuff . But that’s too hard.