Hello, I am back with a special series of food for thought. Thank you so much for all

of the love and support I've received over the past couple of months for those of you

that are listening that at avid fans I have had my second gorgeous little baby boy and

I've been adapting to life as a mum of two but the podcast is here. We are back and for

those that may not know my name is Rianna Lambert. I'm a registered nutritionist, a Sunday

time bestselling author and founder of the Hardy Street Clinic Retrition, also the Evidence

based supplements company Retrition Plus. Now there are some areas of nutrition that

has a nutritionist. I'm asked about them all at the time and this idea really came to

me because I just thought we just need a straight to the point series that covers everything

you need to know on each individual topic spanning from calories to supplements, fitness

regime. So over the next eight weeks the carefully selected episodes will go into great depth

to give you all the advice you need to know. Mythbusting nutrition and of course the

goal of this podcast is to empower you with evidence based advice from the leading experts

in their fields. The conversation about calories is constant and for one reason or another

they're hitting the headlines and the latest being the introduction of them listed on

all menus in the UK. Now calories have been made into a complex and never-ending conversation

probably fueled by social media heavily as well yet the facts are actually very simple.

This week's food for thought shares all the facts that you need to know about calories

and highlights many of the misconceptions that were best to avoid. There's a lot of nuance

and we've picked some incredible experts to lead this conversation. I start with the

amazing registered nutritionist, Glyness Jones from the Association for Nutrition. Now

Glyness and I discuss all sorts of things here from of course the common theory of calories

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