Hello and a very big welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always, Dr. Hazel Wallace,

a medical doctor and founder of the Food Medic, which is an educational platform sharing evidence-based advice on how you can live a healthier and happier life,

while cutting through the confusing information that we find online.

In this podcast, we will hear from experts in the fields of nutrition, medicine and other

areas of healthcare who will be sharing their invaluable experience and research with us.

Today I'm joined by Maeve Hannan, who is a consultant dietitian and health writer.

She also runs the blog, dietetically speaking.com, as she is passionate about promoting evidence-based nutrition and fighting nutritional nonsense.

Maeve is also the food medic's resident dietitian and writes monthly articles on our website so make sure to check them out.

This week, Maeve and I are going to be taking some of the most commonly asked questions

which we get in social media with regards to nutrition and try our best to dispel any of the

confusion and bust some myths. P.S. Don't forget to keep listening to the end of the show where I

will be answering this week's listeners question.

And this week it is, do I need to take a protein supplement if I'm going to the gym?

So today I'm joining in the studio with Mave, who is the resident dietitian from the food medic.

So it's actually really nice to have you here today.

Oh, thank you. I'm delighted to be here.

So we've got loads of questions to go through today. So I'm just going to deep dive and get

started. First question is evidence for intermittent fasting. Is it beneficial for your health and

weight loss? So first of all, I think it's important to explain the different types of intermittent

fasting that we have. So we have the daily intermittent fasting and we have the alternate day

fasting. So the alternate day fasting, that's like the 5-2 diet where there's maybe one or two days a

week where you fast or you eat a low amount of calories,

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