Diet guru Michael Mosley has explained what happened when he changed one thing in his diet - and piled on weight. The expert who founded the famous 5:2 and Fast 800 eating plans was speaking to nutrition expert Tim Spector on his podcast Just One Thing on the BBC.
The pair were speaking about the rise in ultra processed food and the huge impact it has had on the nation’s health. Professor Spector had said that the UK is in the middle of a crisis on the issue: “What people don’t realise is that as well as affecting your gut health, recent studies have show it increases your appetite and eating identical calorie meals - one home cooked the other frozen - both queally tasty - you will eat an extra 500 calories a day of the ultra processed food. And it will make you feel rotten and you don’t know why because you’ve read the packet and it says it’s low calorie or it’s low fat.”
Dr Michael Mosley said that he had carried out a test himself - he ate nothing but processed food like frozen dinners and fast food - and put on almost half a stone in just two weeks. He said: “A couple of years ago I decided to put myself on a junk food diet. I was going to do this for two weeks. I ate things like frozen meals, going out for burgers and chips and fried chicken and slurping back drinks like milkshakes.
