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Jay Slater Body FOUND Weeks After He Disappeared on 17 June in Scorching Heat
Body of Missing TV Presenter -Dr Michael Mosley Found on Greek Island
TV presenter, who has died aged 67, skilfully communicated scientific and medical stories to mass audiences Michael Mosley: How the presenter transformed peoples' lives BBC 10 JUN 2024 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...eg?imwidth=680 Michael Mosley, the television doctor, has died at the age of 67 after getting lost walking home on the Greek island of Symi Mosley 'nearly made it' only steps from the sea.. Authorities think the 67-year-old may have fallen or collapsed in the 40C heat. Few figures in television changed the way we thought, ate and behave like Michael Mosley. But then again, he was almost uniquely placed to achieve this. Mosley, a medical school graduate who joined the BBC as a trainee assistant producer in 1985, quickly found himself able to communicate groundbreaking scientific and medical ideas to mass audiences, a skill he used to great advantage time and time again. This was forged behind the cameras, as he worked on shows including Tomorrow’s World and weather-based programmes such as Superstorm and Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami? In 1995 the British Medical Association named him medical journalist of the year thanks to his Horizon episode Ulcer Wars, spotlighting the medical profession’s hesitancy to follow research that ulcers were caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (not stress, as previously thought) and could be treated with antibiotics rather than surgery. But Mosley’s career did not really take off until he made the decision to step in front of the camera. His presenting career began with 2006’s Medical Mavericks, a history show in which he traced the story of medical progress in the realms of vaccination, anaesthesia and beating infections. One episode looked at doctors who deliberately infected themselves with diseases to study their effects. It set off a theme that ran throughout Mosley’s career. In 2014, for example, he mimicked their approach to research by swallowing three tapeworm cysts that he obtained from infected cattle to see what they did to his body, for a BBC Four series. By this point, however, Mosley was already a household name. Thanks to regular appearances on BBC Breakfast and The One Show, and medical documentaries where he was often smart enough to make himself the subject as well as the presenter, his face became one of the corporation’s most familiar. The show that would really change his life, however, was a 2012 Horizon episode entitled Eat, Fast and Live Longer. This was the show that popularised the 5:2 diet, a method of intermittent fasting whereby people commit to consuming only 500 calories a day for two days of the week. In the show, Mosley claimed the 5:2 diet was not only useful for weight loss, but also reducing insulin levels and decreased inflammation. Although the 5:2 diet was not his discovery, Mosley popularised it to such an extent that he was able to write a number of highly successful books on the subject. His ideas would later evolve to become what he termed the Fast 800 diet, a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet that also included intermittent fasting. Again, the books he wrote on the subject became minor publishing sensations, thanks in part to Mosleys' willingness to walk the walk when it came to sharing big ideas. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/c...8c563da930.jpg Michael Mosley becomes lunch for a leech - Trust Me I'm a Doctor |
More Brits Go Missing Abroad in Scorching Heat
Jay Slater: Tenerife Police Find Another Missing Brit Whilst on Urgent Search For Teen
Police officers involved in the search said that, had they not been able to locate the man nearby the area where Jay went missing, he likely would not have made it home MailOnline 25 JUN 2024 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...er-missing.jpg https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...-has-launc.jpg Spanish police scouring Tenerife for missing teen Jay Slater have managed to save a different missing Brit who had become "tired and disoriented" after becoming trapped in a gorge. Locals alerted officer searching for the missing teen after becoming concerned for the welfare of a 51-year-old man from Scotland who had gone walking in the Los Carrizales neighbourhood near Masca, where search and rescue teams have carried out the now week-long hunt for Jay. The officers broke off their hunt and managed to locate the man at the Asomada Gorge. A spokesman for local police employed by the Buenavista del Norte town hall, the municipality which the village of Masca in north-west Tenerife near Jay's last-known location is part of, said: "Officers acting alongside a Civil Protection mountain rescue team have helped rescue a Scottish hiker aged 51 in the Asomada Gorge in the Los Carrizales neighbourhood. Local residents saw how the hiker went into an area of difficult access which was not suitable for transit early in the morning and had yet to return to his starting point several hours later." "They alerted officers who were at that moment involved in the search for young Jay Slater. He was found tired and disorientated by the officers and the rescue team who helped him out of the gorge." The spokesman thanked local residents for alerting the police, as the hiker likely would not have been able to leave the gorge without help. They said: “We want to thank the local residents who alerted us to this situation because the difficulty of the terrain and lack of phone cover in the area meant this hiker would not have been able to get out alone and without the help he received." The successful rescue took place on Friday last week, but police only went public with the news on Monday evening. |
Jay Slater Body FOUND Weeks After He Disappeared on 17 June in Scorching Heat
Jay Slater Body FOUND. Officials Issue Autopsy Update With Grim New Details About Recovered Body
The body recovered near the spot where British teen Jay Slater went missing was 'very deteriorated' – as officials gave an update on when identification will take place MailOnline 18 JUL 2024 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...re-doing-e.jpg Jay Slaters' heartbroken family prepare to fly home after leaving tributes near where body was found https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...UJAWA05JPG.jpg The body recovered near the spot where Jay Slater went missing was “very deteriorated” and it is unlikely full identification will happen until “next week", Tenerife officials have said. In a devastating admission, authorities also revealed documentation the dead man was carrying was the teenager’s, and everything is pointing to an accidental fall. A court in the town of Icod de los Vinos which covers the area of Masca where the body was found is in charge of the ongoing investigation. In their first comments so far since the grim police discovery yesterday officials representing the female investigating judge said: “In reference to the British citizen Jay Slater, the autopsy with the full identification of the body and the causes of death will take time, because the body was very deteriorated. “But there is very little doubt about both the identity and the etiology. The documentation he was carrying corresponds to that of Jay Slater and everything is pointing to an accidental fall, although that is unofficial pending the final reports.” The official, speaking on condition of anonymity as is normal in Spain, said: “The court is saying the official identification will not be known until next week.” The 29-day search for apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, came to an end around 10am. A helicopter was called in to recover a body. The large-scale police search in the mountains near Masca had been suspended around two weeks after he disappeared on 17 June, but mountain rescue police specialists had continued with a smaller search on a daily basis. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...tenerife13.jpg The remains were found in the treacherous Masca village |
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