Information on the author

Dr. Michael Mosley is the internationally bestselling author of The Clever Guts Diet, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, and the coauthor, with Mimi Spencer, of The Fast Diet. Dr. Mosley trained to be a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London before joining the BBC, where he has been a science journalist, executive producer, and television presenter. He is married with four children. Mimi Spencer is a feature writer, columnist, and the author of 101 Things to Do Before You Diet.

Reading FastDiet Introduction

Over the last few decades, food fads have come and gone, but the standard medical advice on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle has stayed much the same: eat low-fat foods, exercise more, and never, ever skip meals. Over that same period, levels of obesity worldwide have soared. Now many of those old certainties are being questioned.