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Michael Hugh Mosley (22 March 1957 – 5 June 2024) was a British television and radio journalist, producer, presenter and writer who worked for the BBC from 1985 until his death. He presented television programmes on biology and medicine and regularly appeared on The One Show. Mosley was an advocate of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets who wrote books promoting the ketogenic diet. He died on the Greek island of Symi on 5 June 2024. Early life and education Michael Hugh Mosley was born in Calcutta, India, on 22 March 1957, the son of Arthur Daryl Alexander George "Bill" Mosley and Joan Stewart. His father was a banker born in George Town, Penang, of partly Armenian descent. His maternal grandfather, Arthur Dudley Stewart, was an Anglican priest and Principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, born to Irish missionary parents in China. Mosley's maternal great-grandfather, Gerard Lander, was Anglican Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong). Mosley attended boarding school in England from the age of seven. After attending Haileybury College, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford, before working for two years as a banker in the City of London. He then decided to move into medicine, intending to become a psychiatrist, and studied at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (now part of UCL Medical School). He became disillusioned with psychiatry after a placement in the specialty during his degree course and decided not to practise medicine after passing his final examinations in 1985. Mosley described himself as "quite religious" until around the age of 20 and considered becoming a priest. Career After graduating in medicine, Mosley elected not to pursue a career as a doctor, but instead joined a trainee assistant producer scheme at the BBC in 1985. Mosley was a joint executive producer for a number of science programmes, including programmes with Robert Winston, The Human Face presented by John Cleese, and the 2004 BBC Two engineering series Inventions That Changed the World hosted by Jeremy Clarkson. His career in front of the camera began in 2007, when he pitched a series for BBC TV called Medical Mavericks and, unable to find a suitable host, offered to present it himself. He went on to present numerous programmes for TV, including Blood and Guts, The Story of Science, Make Me, and Trust Me, I'm a Doctor. In 2011, Mosley made a series titled The Brain: A Secret History on the history of psychology and neuroscience. During the series, while describing the methods that are being employed to identify the anomalies in brain structure associated with psychopathy, his personal test results revealed he himself had these candidate brain characteristics. Mosley presented a two-part documentary, Frontline Medicine, in 2011, with episodes called "Survival" and "Rebuilding Lives". These programmes described the recent medical advancements that allowed for improved treatment of military personnel injured during battle in Afghanistan, and examined how these new techniques were being used in emergency medicine in civilian casualties in the United States and Great Britain. Mosley's documentary The Truth About Exercise, first broadcast in 2012, highlighted how different patterns of exercise might help achieve health benefits, the danger of sitting for prolonged periods and revealed how certain genotypes are unable to gain significant improvements in aerobic fitness (VO2 max) by following endurance exercise programmes. His own genetic type can gain many of the benefits of exercise, primarily improved insulin response, through short, high-intensity training sessions as suggested by the research of James Timmons. In January 2013, Mosley presented The Genius of Invention. In the documentary named The Truth About Personality, which first aired on 10 July 2013, Mosley explored what science can tell people about optimism and pessimism and whether people can change their outlook. In 2016 he presented the BBC Four documentary Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility. Mosley, along with a group of medical specialists, presented a BBC Two documentary series titled The Diagnostic Detectives which aired in 2020. In the series, each programme is centred around the group of doctors who choose to tackle a patient's problem. In 2021, Mosley presented a three-part series, Lose a Stone in 21 Days, for Channel 4. On the programme Mosley suggested that people could lose a stone (14 lb; 6.4 kg) in 21 days by calorie restriction to only 800 calories a day. This advice was considered dangerous by some medical experts and the programme received criticism on social media platforms. Beat, a UK charity supporting those affected by eating disorders, wrote the following day that "the programme caused enough stress and anxiety to our beneficiaries that we extended our Helpline hours to support anyone affected and received 51% more contact during that time". Mosley presented the series Just One Thing on BBC Radio 4, in which each episode explored a single action a person could take to improve their health. Suggestions covered a wide range including reading poetry out loud, taking hot baths in the evening, playing a musical instrument, Nordic walking, and cooking tomatoes to increase their health benefits. The series launched in March 2021; as of 9 June 2024, 102 episodes had been broadcast with three more, sharing the title "Exercise Clever", scheduled for 13, 20 and 27 June 2024. These were later pulled. An interview he recorded at the Hay Festival less than a fortnight before his death was broadcast as part of the series and as a tribute to him. In it, he was praised as “one of the most important broadcasters of recent decades” and he confessed that he found it challenging to practice many of the health practices he had advocated on his programs and that he had found the results of a personality test confronting. Intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diet advocacy Mosley promoted intermittent fasting and was a low-carbohydrate diet advocate. 5:2 diet Mosley was credited with popularising a form of intermittent fasting called the 5:2 diet through an episode of the BBC documentary series Horizon called "Eat, Fast and Live Longer". It was through this documentary that he learned about the 5:2 diet from neuroscientist Mark Mattson who published a paper on the diet with Michelle Harvie and 14 other scientists in 2011. In the original trials, the 5:2 diet does not follow a particular food pattern, but instead focuses entirely on calorie content. In early 2013 his book The Fast Diet, written with Mimi Spencer, was published by Short Books. The Fast 800 diet Mosley advocated The Fast 800 Diet, a low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet with intermittent fasting that follows a daily 800-calorie eating plan. His book The Fast 800 Keto combines a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting. Mosley's The Fast 800 Keto advises a three-stage diet plan for weight lo.... Discover the Dr Michael Mosley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dr Michael Mosley books.
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The Midlife Kitchen
Mimi Spencer & Sam RiceAs featured in The Times and The Daily Mail.Are you at a point in your life where health is becoming more of a priority? Are you confused by everchanging headlines that contrive to...
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The Gut Repair Plan
Sarah Di LorenzoEasy steps to transform your gut health!Better gut health, better you! Revitalising your gut health can help with bloating, weightloss, sleep, sugarcravings, energy, immunity, ment...
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The G Plan Diet
Amanda Hamilton & Hannah EbelthiteAs seen on ITV's Save Money: Good Health 'The beauty of the G Plan is that it's about abundance...You'll be surprised how quickly positive affects appear!' Top Sante'G Plan the d...
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Fast Food Snacks
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellFast Food Snacks is the fifth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.The next time your friends show up on your doorstep without warning, don't simply reach...
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Evolving
Judy BaileyAn inspiring and personal guide to ageing well and with happiness, by national treasure Judy BaileyWhen beloved broadcaster Judy Bailey signed off her final news bulletin in 2005, ...
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Lose Belly Fat Fast
Claire YoungLose weight for good in just 4 weeks!Drawing on the latest scientific research, expert healthfood writer Claire Young has cracked the secret to losing weight and keeping it off: ba...
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Improve Your Digestion
Patrick HolfordIt is becoming more and more widely recognised that a healthy gut is crucial to allround good health, a fact demonstrated by the growing interest in this once taboo subject. Many r...
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Curry Nights In
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellCurry Night In is the ninth and final chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.Get 'curried away' with this chapter devoted to the nation's favourite takeaway...
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My Mediterranean Life
Sarah Di LorenzoSupercharge the way you eat for a longer, healthier and happier life with over 200 healthboosting recipes. Celebrated clinical nutritionist and bestselling author, Sarah Di ...
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Simply Italian
Michela Chiappa, Emanuela Chiappa & Romina ChiappaThe very best of Italian cooking with Michela, Romina and Emanuela in Simply Italian.'Wales and Italy, family and food: for us, these four things are inextricably linked and at the...
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Asthma and Bronchitis
Jan de VriesIt is clear that asthma and bronchitis are on the increase, especially in Britain, and there are strong indications that this rise may be linked to atmospheric influences. Jan de V...
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Team Cooking
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellTeam Cooking is the sixth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.Half the fun of great food can be the making of it, so if you enjoy the getting there as we...
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Lose Weight for Life
Lisa RileyAs tested on ITV'S SAVE MONEY: LOSE WEIGHT Lisa Riley's diet plans are the cheapest way to lose weight. Having shed an incredible 12 stone, Lisa Riley has completely changed how s...
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The Neuroscience of Excellent Sleep
Stan RodskiHow to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night's sleep.Everyone's familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you're groggy and irr...
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The FAB Diet
Rosemary ConleyWhen Rosemary Conley appeared on Dancing on Ice at the age of 65 looking younger and fitter than many of the contestants on there, she proved that her diet and exercise programmes ...
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Beat the Bloat
Claire YoungTired of feeling bloated?Fed up of having a belly?Do you want to give up fad dieting and have flat stomach for good?With BEAT THE BLOAT you can.Drawing on the latest scientific res...
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The Hairy Bikers Eat to Beat Type 2 Diabetes
Hairy Bikers & Professor Roy TaylorTHE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.The bestselling, bighearted and downtoearth chefs, The Hairy Bikers, return with 80 of their very best Dieter recipes. Contains previously publish...
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Food to Show Off
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellFood to Show Off is the fourth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.If you've been bragging about your killer cooking skills for years, this chapter will ...
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Easy-Going Dinners
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellEasyGoing Dinners is the seventh chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.While there's no magic solution for finding more hours in the day, that's no excuse ...
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The Lemon Juice Diet
Theresa CheungLemon juice is the new cabbage soup of the diet world and a major Hollywood fad; the media is full of stories of stars losing weight on diets in which lemon juice is a key feature....
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A Question of Age
Jacinta ParsonsA beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a selfh...
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Beginners Get . . . Sorted
The Sorted CrewDiscover simple, tasty and EASY recipes perfect for student life from the YouTube sensations, SORTED'Straightforward, wholesome, foolproof and includes cheats to satisfy even the l...
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The Ultimate FODMAP Cookbook
Heather ThomasHealthy gut, happy body.Wondering what all the FODMAP fuss is about? If you suffer from digestive issues like IBS and Crohn’s disease, chances are not many types of food will agree...
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Easy GI Diet
Helen FosterDid you know that highGI diets, while sounding healthy, can actually increase your risk of heart problems, diabetes, weight gain and possibly even some cancers? Easy LowGI Diet foc...
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Full Plate
Preeya AlexanderBanish mealtime stress for good with TV chef and Instagram’s favourite GP, Dr Preeya Alexander. Full Plate is your ultimate solution to mealtime mayhem from a practising GP. ...
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Five Ingredients, Ten Minutes
Jules ClancyCook up a storm in the kitchen every day. Delicious AND healthy food, using five ingredients, and just ten minutes cooking time.Make midweek meals, simple, quick and healthy with F...
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Lighten Up
Judith Verity & Pete CohenHow many diets have you tried ? Five? Six? How many have worked forever? Chances are: None. Did you know that 85% of people who diet gain the weight again as soon as the diet is ov...
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RHS Grow for Flavour
James Wong & Royal Horticultural SocietyUse James Wong's revolutionary tips and tricks to grow: Tomatoes that are 1.5 times sweeter than usual, with 50% more vitamin C Chillis with double the fire power Blueberries that ...
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The Picnic Hamper
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellThe Picnic Hamper is the second chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.For your perfect picnic hamper we've put together a whole host of savoury and sweet d...
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Detox
Helen FosterDetox will help you to combat the many 'toxic' elements of modern life through diet, alternative therapies, massage and exercise. The book includes tips and advice to ensure that t...
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Family Favourites
The Sorted Crew & Ben EbbrellFamily Favourites is the eighth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends.We've added our own little Sorted twist to a whole bunch of dinners that everyone kno...
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New Hip And Thigh Diet Cookbook
Patricia Bourne & Rosemary ConleyEat your way to diet success with over 100 superb recipes.The Hip and Thigh Diet has revolutionized the eating habits of successful slimmers across the world. Now, with this entici...
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The Best Possible You
Hannah RichardsA practical nutritional and lifestyle guide to improving your health and healing your body.The human body is an amazing and resilient system, and the food we eat, the way we move, ...
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Fat-Burner Foods
Dr Caroline M. ShreeveWith guaranteed weightloss of three kilos (seven lbs) a week without feeling hungry, Fatburner Foods provides a safe and realistic way to diet successfully. The diet guarantees sat...
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Plant Milk Power
Deborah KaloperThese 'milkshakes' bring all the vegans to the yardForget everything you already knew about vegan food. It's time to discover Plant Milk Power, a collection of 40 heavenly hot, col...
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Susie Orbach on Eating
Susie Orbach'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little ...
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Hack Your Hormones
Davinia TaylorTHE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful book' Dr Chris van Tulleken, Sunday Times bestselling author of UltraProcessed PeopleSleep better thanks to cherriesFix y...