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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

Weight Loss Special – with Prof Giles Yeo

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this series of special editions of BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, Michael Mosley quizzes the world’s leading health experts on the best ways to live well. In this Weight Loss Special, we hear from Professor Giles Yeo, a leading expert in the genetics of obesity at the University of Cambridge. We hear the top tips Professor Yeo swears by to help you shed the pounds. What’s the best way to lose weight? What should you be eating and how should you be exercising? And what’s the best way to keep it off?

And as this is a Just One Thing special, we'll end each interview by asking Professor Yeo for the one single most effective health hack to shift a few pounds.

Producer: Dom Byrne Production Manager: Maria Simons Exec Producer: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?

0:06.0

Anonymity is our most valuable gift.

0:09.0

I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.

0:16.0

Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.

0:20.0

Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.

0:24.1

I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.

0:30.0

Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.

0:33.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. Welcome to Just One Long Thing, a series of special editions of my BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing,

0:52.0

Where I Quiz the world's leading health experts

0:55.2

on the best ways to live well. From talking to strangers to boost happiness, to

1:00.2

aging disgracefully to live longer, I'll be learning the top tips that the expert swear by

1:06.6

to maximize your health and well-being. And as this is a just one thing special,

1:12.8

I'll end each interview by asking our expert

1:15.6

to choose the one personal health hack

1:18.4

that they would say is the single most effective way

1:21.8

you can improve your life.

1:23.4

In this Weight Loss Special I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Giles

1:30.1

Yow, who studies the genetics of obesity at Cambridge University. J

1:35.7

Jiles Joes who studies the genetics of obesity at Cambridge University. In his groundbreaking research,

1:36.7

Jiles has uncovered the powerful ways in which our genes influence our eating

1:40.6

behavior and the way we think about weight gain.

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