Michael Mosley

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Yeah.

The 5:2 diet based on the work Chris Волоere did with the every other day diet, adapted by Michael Mosley.

Mm-hmm.

Instead of every other day, like Chris Волоere day, he's like, "Let's just do two, two days.

Things like being able to balance on one leg.

I remember Michael Mosley, he did just one thing.

I remember he used to say, when you're boiling the kettle or brushing your teeth, just stand on one leg.

Balance is really quite a crucial thing.

He pioneered a way for everyday people to lose weight and change their lives.

Dr. Michael Mosley created the Fast 800 and popularized intermittent fasting.

Now his family is carrying on his really important mission, helping millions to understand how changes in lifestyle can spark weight loss and also create long-term improvements in health.

For more, let's bring in Dr Claire Bailey-Mosley and Dr Jack Mosley.

Good morning to both of you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We need to sort this out.

And Michael Moseley was very prolific at the time.

So we thought we'll try the 5-2 to see if that can help us, which it did.

For us, it was extremely successful.

And then because I have weight that I want to lose, I'm trying to recalibrate that then it was sort of like, what's the calorie side? Because I again, that obsessive compulsive, I would go, you know, look at people like Dr.

Michael Mosley doing 800 calories, and then look at somebody else who say she should be gosh, that's starving the body and you're going to, you know, you're going to put weight, you know, you need to be much higher calories, otherwise your body's starving and all of that sort of stuff.

But even though I've lived this journey for 14 years, I'm still sort of like, okay, where do I go from here? So I started at a baseline, saw what happened after a few days and then tweaked and adjusted.

And I think that that's I'm not letting myself get more than a few days down a journey really before really seeing what's actually happening.

And a- and that's part of it, that sometimes, actually, and although I obviously think nutrition is really important, sometimes you might be better off improving some of that non-exercise activity thermogenesis.

You might be better off saying, "Go for a walk in your lunch break." And Michael Mosley back in the day did some great stuff on this.

So could we, and that might also spark them to be in a better head space because they're outside in the sunshine or in the rain soon to be, and then that might be that they then make a better choice at lunch because they've got out of the office.

So I'm all for that, and I'm all, and it, and then it has to be tailored because if I'm trying to build lean tissue, then okay, then it has to be an intervention to support that.

... you, exactly, encouraging people

But we, we take it, and if we think of Michael Mosley, he was brilliant at that-

Yes

... and he led by example on those things.

Here's another one, everyone was wrong, saturated fat is good for you.

And there was a key, uh, pull quote in there, "In the last 30 years, Americans have lowered their fat consumption by 10%, while obesity has doubled." Yeah, you think? Michael Mosley over in the UK, "Should people be eating more fat?" So we're seeing all these really great headlines on behalf of fat, and this is good, right? You can say yes.

It's not that early.

[laughs] So let's look at the news front.