To find Michael Mosley annoying

Him and that annoying permanently startled Dr Amir Khan do my nut in.
In fact all tv doctors are maddening, preening ego-driven fools.
I pity their patients -if they have time to see any.

Scientifically a lot of what MM says is mildly crap. He confuses correlation with causation. To be fair, so do Spector & the van Tulleken guy plenty of professors & medical doctors (!) Moseley promotes ideas that are hugely more theory than proven. And he's not the only one doing that. I wouldn't mind so much if MM wasn't so featured on BBC so I encounter his trailers a lot, too. I've managed to avoid the book adverts.

MM is a banker who worked briefly as a psychiatrist before being a journalist (since forever). He doesn't give bad advice so much as he gives advice that isn't as credible & definitely helpful as MM implies it is.

I lost a bit of respect when he started peddling the 800 cal 5.2 diet. The original 5.2 had some value in my view and he did have some science and behavioural research to back it. The 800 cal is just a very low cal diet and he now also promotes meal replacement stuff which is to my mind unhealthy and unsustainable. It puts his diet into the big pit of useless weight loss books.

i like listening to his little programmes on the radio, they are only 15 minutes long so perfect for me

totally annoying on radio 4, Dead Ringers do a great parody of him.

This dietitian doesn’t think much of him either
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeRUx1wr/

Just a small point. The blood sugar diet that's been shown to reverse type 2 diabetes in some cases is the result of decades of research by Professor Roy Taylor. I believe it's meant to be short term and undertaken under medical supervision. It's not a fad diet. And yes it could save the NHS millions so if Michael Moseley has raised the profile then good on him but it's from decades of hard research by academics and researchers.

Same as Tim Spector really

They both did some perfectly fine work, and then decided they wanted to make lots of money flogging diet plans.

But that’s capitalism for you, and they both have kids and mortgages and all that.

rangan chatterjee, irritating though he can be, does do a better job of balance, but then he is much younger so isn’t at the stage when he wants to cash in fast

Someone made a good point above about hating other business people more.
What about gambling companies, Bezos, Murdoch empire. Lots of proper scumbags out there.

The 800 cal thing is completely crazy but the meals themselves are really tasty. I just eat the 'not on a fast day' version, if I'm eating them, as part of 3 healthy no sugar meals a day. Like most recipe books, there are maybe 4 recipes I really like and the others are just meh.

I don't watch much TV or read the daily fail. So don't hear about him much.
However, a person at work (medical setting) told me about the fasting thing a few years ago. I pretty much didn't eat until lunch all my life. So, in that sense it wasn't too bad for me.
Me and my partner use the recipes in his book throughout the week, and eat 'normally' at the weekend. Really helps to keep costs down as we meal plan.
We have both lost over 10kg and have kept it off over a couple of years. He was borderline type 2. Not any more though.
We don't even see it as a 'diet' anymore. It's just what we eat. Lifestyle choices. Got me out of a lot of bad habits with carbs!
So, nothing bad to say here. But if someone annoys you, they annoy you. I can't stand prof Brian Cox haha. But I still wouldn't slate what he does.

I have to admit, I do like his wifes recipes and yes they are not keto.
He also never practiced as a doctor, but went into journalism, but please correct me if I am wrong.

I always confuse him with Tim Spector, but I think the latter is more credible.

His diets are well researched and supported by various academics. He's making money out of it, but hey ho, there's plenty of other business people I like considerably less!

Or listen, or watch

I did his blood sugar diet shortly after it first came out, there was a very active (and free) forum, absolutely no pressure to buy the books, I lost quite a lot of weight, so overall I have quite a lot of tolerance.
Some of the Radio 4 series I find a bit preachy - but every now and then there's one that chimes with me.

No different to any other celebrity author who rehashes the same stuff over and over again No one forces you to buy them.

Didn't he reverse his diabetes, the condition his dad died from. Isnt that a good thing to try and improve the over all health of fellow human beings, and good for nhs

We did the 5-2 when he and Mimi ? started it. It worked and I do a version now from time to time, but he is so obviously in it for the money, that I can’t bear him. I agree about the voice too. I don’t be,I eve he does any of it to improve the health of the nation, he just finds different ways to say the same thing and persuade more people to part with their money to line his pockets.

We call him Michael Muesli in our house.

"Do you know that fifteen bowls on Muesli on a Tuesday could extend your life by 35 seconds? I'm Michael Muesli, and this is Just One Thing".

I am so glad someone else agrees. I find him infuriating. I actually googled 'Michael Mosley annoying' last year because I was sure it was a popular opinion. It wasn't...

It was the Just One Thing on R4 that tipped me over the edge. It is his patronising, encouraging manner I can't stand.

He is annoying but some of the messages are useful. So long as you don't buy anything! The latest thing is cereal bars. I'm not sure how healthy those are but it will be part of balanced diet and definitely not UPF...

That was my understanding too. He graduated from his medical degree but never actually worked as a doctor.

Loathe him. Calls himself a "doctor" but (according to Private Eye) he hasn't in fact practised for decades. Endless crappy repetitive books bought by mugs.
Radio4 has many deeply irritating programmes, but somehow Just One Thing manages to be in a class of its own.
He's constantly banging on about how to improve your health and live longer, but the irony is that he has a real old codger's voice, despite only being, at the time of writing 2023, 66.

No man.

You are right he is everywhere! He must be raking it in.