Cultural Dessert

‘Just One Thing with Michael Mosley’

21 January 2022

I am very grateful to Gareth Coles for (repeatedly!) championing the BBC Radio 4 podcast ‘Just One Thing with Michael Mosley’. Each episode is less than 15 minutes long and, as the title suggests, focusses on just one thing you can do to improve your health and wellbeing. Michael Mosley provides very clear scientific evidence for how each of the quick simple things he looks at can benefit wellbeing. He then provides suggestions for minor changes to your daily habits that could make a major difference to your life. For example, the latest episode simply recommends standing up for a couple of minutes every hour. In each case he asks a guinea pig to test drive his hypothesis. The podcast is very persuasive precisely because it promotes very small adjustments. Some of the subjects are fairly unsurprising, for example ‘Sing’ or ‘Drink Water’, though the detailed analysis of these is still revealing. But I found the more counterintuitive topics the most interesting, such as the episodes suggesting improving your wellbeing by eating chocolate or playing video games. You can listen to ‘Just One Thing’ at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09by3yy or wherever you get your podcasts.

Labels: Radio

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