[The Fast Diet (The Original 5:2 Diet: Revised and Updated): New Research, New Recipes] [By: Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer] [January, 2014]

by Michael Mosley

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About the author

Michael Mosley was a British television journalist, producer, and presenter who worked for the BBC (amongst other broadcasters) from 1985 until his death in 2024. He was probably best known as a presenter of television documentaries on biology and medicine, and his regular appearances on The One Show.

Born in Kolkata, India, the son of a bank director, Mosley 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, studying at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (now part of UCL Medical School).

Becoming disillusioned by psychiatry, upon graduation Mosley joined a trainee assistant producer scheme at the BBC in 1985. Since then he produced and presented many documentaries on science and/or medicine. He was an advocate of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets who wrote books promoting the ketogenic diet.

Mosley died on the Greek island of Symi on 5 June 2024.

Reviews

[Danielle Crowley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating read. lots of scientific evidence to support the idea of fasting and it’s benefits. Now l will see if it really works. 🧁🍉