Hello and welcome back to what a series 12 of Food for Thought. I can't thank you

enough for the support over the years. I am so delighted to be back with another Jampak

series and I think this series is different. We've got a few real standouts here and so

many fascinating topics which I just know that you will love. I'm Rianne Lambert, registered

nutritionist, best-selling author of Reinerish, a simple way to eat well, soon to be author

of the Science of Nutrition out December 30 of 2021 and founder of Retrition London's

Leading Private Nutrition Clinic. So over the next 12 weeks my expert guest and eyes aim

is to expose why so much advice can often be misleading to tap into different areas

of health and how we can enhance our happiness and harness you all with the truth. So we'll

be using proven science to sort of fact from fiction and everything that remains confusing

in the world of wellness.

For decades we've been obsessed with calories. Daily thoughts for many include how many

have eaten and are they all the same or should we be cutting them to lose weight. In nearly

all instances this isn't healthy behaviour and we need to reshape our perspective when

it comes to calories. This week's Food for Thugwort sees the amazing geneticist Jal's

yo and I deep dive into whether it's time to let go of calorie counting or should we

be counting every single one. Hello Jials. Hello, we lovely to speak to you again. Oh,

you too. I was so excited when I looked in my diary this morning. I was like yes, it's

Jials podcast day. I feel like we always have so much to cover and this will be your third

time I think on Food for Thugwort. We've never had anywhere back three times so it's quite

the honour you know. Thank you very much. No, it's our pleasure completely and I think we'll

go straight to it and say well it's an interesting time let's put it that way in the UK. It's

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