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Anyone watch this last night (Oct 10th)? Thought MM was looking good, 5:2 obviously doing very well on 5:2.
Interesting clips on how much water the body needs to stay hydrated and also on how accurate BMI figures are at actually predicting the individual's health.
Worth watching on iplayer if you missed the programme.

I had also heard that MM had recently switched to 6:1, and was doing very well with that. Anyway, the programme began with some confirmation of what I had learnt about your BMI not being the most important factor when it comes to determining whether you are healthy or not. That now makes me feel a lot better about those occasions where my own BMI has creeped up to above 25.

The programme also showed that it was also possible to still be fit even if you are overweight and in some respects, that also ties in nicely with the 5:2 diet because although weight loss is one of the benefits that the 5:2 diet brings, it isn't the most important thing to come from that.

I also liked the manner in which the programme quashed the recommendations about the need to drink 8 glasses of water every day, by pointing out that there is no scientific evidence to back up such recommendations. Having said that though, I still think that it is important to take in more water on a 5:2 diet day to make up for the water that I'm not getting from food.

The other thing that I liked was the importance of getting a good night's sleep and so overall, it was a really good programme which covered a lot of issues and I am looking forward to watching the other two programmes in that series when they are broadcast.

Hear hear (and other old fashioned championing noises)

I missed it, boo hoo. I now know what I will be watching tonight.
The only thing I'm falling down on is decent sleep, as I rarely get to bed before 2am due to my hubby not being able to sleep before then (pain levels for him can be horrendously high). I do sleep till 10 am if need be, but its not the same. As one well known consultant once told me, 1 hours sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours after midnight.
Maybe the lack of sleep is whats triggered this cold I'm starting?

I watched it and thought it a well balanced report; nothing sensationalist, but easy to listen to and understand.

[carieoates]

Loved the BMI bit and the rugby club lads are local to me.

I really enjoyed the section on ultrasound brain surgery. I thought it was quite incredible what they managed to achieve.

I thought it was quite lightweight, compared to the Horizon shows.... but they will certainly appeal to the masses and bits of it were useful and informative. It's nice to see MM becoming a little more "mainstream! The stoopid "jingles" in between each piece were starting to grate after an hour though.....

Rats, I have to figure out a way to watch this in the US.

Agree with Domane - very "magaziney" feel about it, obviously catering to the widely held belief nowadays that most of the audience has the attention span of a gnat. Will not be watching again.

I was a little disappointed, they could have done more with the programme, it was very 'bitty'flitting from one subject to another. I will watch next weeks see if it improves.

Chris x

Hi deMuralist, I'm in Germany and need the BBC for general survival - this country would drive me crazy if I didn't have a bit of "home" to watch.

I use a VPN and can watch the BBC with no problems. I pay a few pounds a month and it routes my internet connection through the UK.

I quite enjoyed it, though do agree with the posts above that it was a bit lightweight and assumed we had attention span of gnats! On the plus side though, lightweight is also good as it means I can understand it!!! I've tried to follow some of Carorees' fantastic posts - after all I'm a reasonably intelligent human being - but always fail miserably ... all that science is totally beyond me and goes wosh over my head !!! (Ha, so not so intelligent after all ) So on this occasion I was grateful for something a bit mainstream. Will be watching next week with interest as he's talking about exercising (apparently)

The bit on BMI depressed me rather. I finally get close to "normal" BMI and now it turns out that actually fitness is the true indicator of health. I'm hideously unfit so slight feeling of being back at square one. It's nothing I didn't know, if I'm honest, but have been hoping the inconvenient truth will go away if I ignore it long enough. Sigh!

And Suchard, I'm with you on the science stuff. I'm very grateful for all the research Caroline and others do and all the scientific links they post here. I'm even more grateful for the summaries they post from those articles which make the information so much more accessible. I'm not dumb by any means, but I reckon I just have the wrong shape of brain for science, causing the well-known condition called Eyes-Glazed-Over!

I there an internet link to this programm so those of us not in the UK can watch it?