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The 5:2 diet lets you enjoy a glass of wine and indulge in eating most of your favourite foods for five days a week. But as the old saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Dieters have to fast for the other two days. Voice of Russia’s Nima Green reports.
The clink of a glass of wine, and the pleasure of enjoying a meal out with family and friends, being able to order what you want – these enjoyments are usually excluded for most dieters, but not so for those on the 5:2 diet.
In 2012, a BBC Horizon documentary by Dr Michael Moseley, a journalist with a medical background, pushed the 5:2 diet into the limelight.
Mosley claimed that a process of intermittent fasting results in not just weight loss, but that it also helps to guard against conditions such as dementia, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and even cancer.
Nima Sherpa Green 