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The 5:2 diet is an increasingly popular diet plan with a flurry of newspaper articles and books being published on it in the run up to Christmas 2012 and in January 2013.
The diet first reached the mainstream via a BBC Horizon documentary called Eat, Fast and Live Longer, broadcast in August 2012.
The 5:2 diet is based on a principle known as intermittent fasting (IF) ? where you eat normally at certain times and then fast during other times.
The 5:2 diet is relatively straightforward ? you eat normally five days a week, and fast on the other two days. However, this isn?t the traditional concept of a ?fast? in religious terms (eating nothing all day), instead this fast is a form of extreme calorie restriction: dieters are advised by this plan to eat no more than 500 calories if you are a women, or 600 calories if you are a man, for two days a week.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Does-the-5-2-intermittent-fasting-diet-work.aspx
The diet first reached the mainstream via a BBC Horizon documentary called Eat, Fast and Live Longer, broadcast in August 2012.
The 5:2 diet is based on a principle known as intermittent fasting (IF) ? where you eat normally at certain times and then fast during other times.
The 5:2 diet is relatively straightforward ? you eat normally five days a week, and fast on the other two days. However, this isn?t the traditional concept of a ?fast? in religious terms (eating nothing all day), instead this fast is a form of extreme calorie restriction: dieters are advised by this plan to eat no more than 500 calories if you are a women, or 600 calories if you are a man, for two days a week.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Does-the-5-2-intermittent-fasting-diet-work.aspx