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Michael Mosley asks What’s Your Body Hiding?

BBC presenter Michael Mosley is coming to Sydney ahead of a series of UK docos on health and the human body.

2013-09-12_0006BBC presenter Michael Mosley arrives in Sydney on Monday ahead of a series of UK documentaries branded as What’s Your Body Hiding? for BBC Knowledge.

Mosley will provide on-air commentary through a season of science documentaries in October, offering insights into health and the human body.

Next month BBC Knowledge lifts the lid on the true state of our health with a special month of programmes that will open our eyes about food, health and wellbeing. Are you really as healthy as you think you are?

Michael Mosley has put his body on the line in the name of science and has investigated some revolutionary ideas surrounding health and fitness. He originally trained to be a doctor, and has presented a range of science-based BBC documentaries over the years, many focused around health and the human body. He frequently uses himself as a guinea pig and has experienced firsthand the benefits of intermittent fasting (co-authoring the internationally bestselling book The Fast Diet) and explored new research and ideas around how we react to exercise.

Programmes to feature in the What’s Your Body Hiding? season include the cautionary The Men Who Made Us Fat, Supermarket Sleuth (both Australian premieres) , India’s Supersize Kids and Junk Food Mums as well as Mosley’s popular titles The Truth About Exercise, Eat, Fast & Live Longer and Guts.

Tim Christlieb, Head of Programming and Production for BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand, comments “We are thrilled to have Michael Mosley on board as the face of the What’s Your Body Hiding? season, his programmes on health have changed the way many of us think about diet and exercise. BBC Knowledge viewers are in for a month of eye-opening documentaries that explore some groundbreaking new ideas and research around food, diet and exercise. Health and obesity are big issues for the western world today and this season highlights some of the causes of these issues and potential solutions.”

What’s Your Body Hiding? season screens Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays at 9.30pm from October 6, on BBC Knowledge.

The Men Who Made Us Fat
Sundays at 9:30pm from October 6

Journalist Jacques Peretti explores the profitable ways eating habits have been revolutionised over the last 40 years, leading to rising obesity levels. (3 x 60’)

Supermarket Sleuth

Sundays at 9:30pm from October 27

Cherry Healey discovers how the food we put in our shopping baskets every week could hold the answer to our worries about weight and hang ups about health. (2 x 60’)

Junk Food Mums
Monday October 7 at 9:30pm

Some parents see nothing wrong in keeping their children happy with junk food. But are they setting them up for major health problems? (1 x 60’)

The Truth About Exercise
Tuesday October 8 at 9:30pm

Scientists are uncovering the new and surprising truths about what exercise is really doing to our bodies, and why we all respond to it differently. In this programme, Michael Mosley uses himself as a human guinea pig to discover the truth about exercise. (1 x 60’)

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

Tuesday October 15 at 9:30pm

Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. Could the ancient idea of fasting hold the secrets to a longer, healthier life? (1 x 50)

India’s Supersize Kids
Monday October 14 at 9:30pm

Anita Rani explores the crisis of obesity unfolding in India. As the country’s economy grows and a new middle class emerges, the national waistline is swelling too. Those at greatest risk are India’s children. (1 x 50’)

Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket
Mondays at 9:30pm from October 21

Can meat be cheap and ethical? Jimmy Doherty goes inside Britain’s biggest supermarket to come up with innovative ideas to produce equally cheap but higher-welfare alternatives to their best selling meat products. (3 x 60’)

Guts
Tuesday October 22 at 9:30pm
You may be pretty familiar with what you look like from the outside, but in this programme Michael Mosley gets up close and personal with his own digestive system to reveal what we look like inside. Guts uncovers the secret life of our digestive tract in an eye-opening and detailed exploration of a part of the body we normally never get to see. (1 x 50′)

2 Responses

  1. I love Micheal Mosley & have seen quite a few of his programs recently, either on Pay or on SBS.
    My IQ is already nearly full after BBC Know. has been repeating Horizon programs 5 days a week, and now I’ll need room for all these too, come October.
    Nice to watch sensible, well-made documentaries, but not every day! I’m a bit overloaded.
    As I write the IQ is copying a movie “Sharknado” onto the DVD to make some space.
    “Sharknado”? OK I don’t always have excellent taste! I do like a laugh sometimes.

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