To find Michael Mosley annoying

@LadyBird1973 Spot on! I can highly recommend Chris Van Tulleken's book Ultra processed people. Riveting reading.

Yes.
Money grabbing all the time.

I loath him an his faux expert advice. He qualified as a doctor 30 years ago, practiced for 5-minutes and has been touting his ill informed, non-expert stuff in the media ever since!

I think his main problem is that he lacks the charisma of the van Tulleken (sp?) twins, who are very good broadcasters as well as bring knowledgeable and cute

I think the science he promotes is excellent, but he's not a great broadcaster - his lispy voice is very annoying, especially on radio/podcasts.

@Missamyp Yes very true. I've followed a lot of what he promotes via other sources including advice from a registered nutritionist and my vitamin and inflammatory markers have greatly improved, eg kidney function,esr, ferritin, rh. factor. I suppose if he's spreading the word to the masses then it's a good thing, even if he monetizes it.

I don't warm to him either, but all those diet types monetise what they do and I guess we can't moan if the public choose to consume their products.

Yes! He’s a pain in the arse

Yet following the diet MM is promoting will lead to health benefits. That is an empirical fact.
People don't like him, because he has an annoying manner and voice. Plus he's pointing out that the country has a problem with UPF consumption and is quite frankly grossly overweight and unhealthy.

I find some of his non diet stuff interesting. The do one thing type. Small bite size achievable things.

Grifter. I occasionally watch his stuff but it's nothing revelatory.

Don't like and don't trust him, he's like a slimy diet salesman.

He uses his title as a Dr to sell books and documentarys despite never having practiced as a Dre, he also jumps on a lot of latest diet fads and makes a lot of money out of pushing them.

And as the nutritionist linked to up thread most doctors know very little about nutrition without further study.

He confuses correlation with causation. To be fair, so do Spector & the van Tulleken guy plenty of professors & medical doctors (!)

The Van Tulleken guy has an article in the latest Radio Times telling readers that health fads are not worth the money and that you should work out who profits from your health problems and anxieties? which I found more than slightly ironic coming from him.

He also manages to be even more irritating than MM.

How the HELL no-one apparently notices they're spending £ 15k a year on takeaways when they're trying to save for a house deposit baffled me. I mean, FIFTEEN THOUSAND A YEAR?? for two years?? did they ever wonder where the money was going and why they're overweight? and how much are they earning, FGS, if they can spend that?

£300 a week! Or £15K a year!!! But they didn’t know why they were overweight. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Plus they were living with his Mum, along with their kids, while they were trying to save up for a house. If I were his mother I’d have been spelling it out to them that they were royally taking the piss out of her.

And the £300 a week or month they were spending on take aways it beggars belief

Me too!

He is a smugwump, no doubt about it and has a dreadful, smarmy smirk. However, I thought the programme yesterday evening was very well done.
The young couple in question appeared to have no idea. Fancy basically doubling your calorie intake (it seemed like virtually every day) without realising?
As for the money they were spending, the mind boggles.
I think it was important to highlight how fast/processed food impacts both physical and mental health.
It was similar to a Van Tulleken programme last year where identical twins ate the same number of calories, but one was eating "real food" and the was eating "junk food". The junk food eater's mood plummeted and she gained 2kg.

I am irked that he has never tackled hearing loss - its very negative impact on mental health and precursor exacerbater of dementia - but then maybe that’s because there’s not a lot of £sd to be made ( apart from hearing aid dispensing) Also he looks as though he’s forgotten to put his dentures in - his mouth is like a cat’s rectum 👍☘️

I think everyone is right he is a self publicist and it's shameful that he doesn't come clean that he's not a GP at all. So it's good that I found here that. But all in all I think what he does is ok considering we get bombarded with take away ads every 15 minutes. I think I would rather listen to him than another pizza advert. What he has raised in his programs is the fact that we have a chronic health problem in the u.k. and many of our health problems can possibly be cured by changing your diet what's wrong with that?. Through his endless media coverage he has made people aware that we heading to disaster with the junk we eat and the lies we tell ourselves that we're eating a balanced diet.He hasn't done anything wrong by pointing out the facts when he's just one man against the food corporations that make millions from selling us rubbish.He has also taken down some of the myths and lies that are perpetuated on social media that everyone addicted to on what to eat which is just another way of selling another myth.

He gives me the total ick you have to listen to his bodily functions up close then him tell you with such delight and innocence how sucking a sweet on the left side of your mouth might increase your life span.. you know what I mean. Listening to his body up close is just too much when he's not even telling us things we don't know and he's not Tom Hardy

I was listening to his podcasts just this evening while driving.
The ones about how being cold can be healthy/cold house ( his own is kept to 15°) cold showers/swimming etc.. It's interesting, but then I started to notice his speech pattern and it drove me barmy.

He takes constant gaps in his sentences. Every few words... Or so... Do you see... What I mean...
Had to switch off 😵‍💫

I didn’t realise this was a

I agree with others - loved the 5:2 documentary, give or take the rest.

Ugh just no!
That smug, trust me I’m a doctor half smile.
Pass the sick bag!
Is he by any chance related to Oswald Mosley? 🧐