Dr Jack Mosley, who authored Food Noise: How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings, is the son of the late Dr Michael Mosley, and is pictured with his mother, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley. Both are continuing Michael’s work to help people live longer, healthier lives. Photos: Supplied.
“Food noise” can be so incessant and intrusive that it drives overeating. It refers to thoughts and distractions surrounding food, often characterised by a constant preoccupation with eating, cravings and worries about food choices. It’s those invasive thoughts that tell you to eat that chocolate treat, order those hot chips or scoff down those pastries.
Food Noise: How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings is an innovative guide by Dr Jack Mosley, who builds on the legacy of his late father, Dr Michael Mosley, fusing expert medical insight with real-life stories and practical advice. It untangles the pros and cons behind these so-called “miracle” weight-loss medications to allow you to understand the science, transform your diet and sustain the change.
An advocate of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, Dr Michael Mosley was a pioneer of the hugely popular 5:2 diet and the Fast 800 books and program. Presently, his son and his wife, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, are continuing his work to help people live longer, healthier lives with benefits for a global audience.
Food Noise has everything you need to know about living well with the new generation of diet drugs, from understanding side effects and giving your body the nutrients it needs, to sustaining weight loss. Critically, Jack answers the questions few are addressing, such as embracing a lifestyle that nourishes both body and mind. Are we “overfed but undernourished”?
Following in his father and mother’s footsteps, Jack is medically trained and has long been fascinated by lifestyle medicine. For many years, his focus was on treating obesity. Jack has worked as a doctor in emergency medicine in the UK and Australia and now works as a GP registrar. Drawing on his work as a GP registrar and his Master of Research in diabetes, he felt he could bring some clarity to this fast-moving area of weight loss.
He was working in Australia when the new generation of GLP-1 weight-loss medications began to make a splash on the global stage. Suddenly, everyone was talking about Ozempic and Wegovy and people flocked to take the jabs as the word spread.
As Jack states: “If food feels like it’s always on your mind — whether it’s cravings, guilt, or constant thoughts about what to eat next — you’re not alone. That’s exactly why I wrote Food Noise and why I’m sharing a few quick tips to help quiet the mental chatter around food.
“… the weight loss jabs looked like they would be a miraculous silver bullet in the fight against obesity. But with demand so high, large parts of the market have become a lawless free-for-all. People with worrying obesity-related illnesses are self-administering the drug, and increasing their doses to eye-watering levels, without any kind of medical or nutritional advice or support …
“It really has become the ‘Wild West’ out there, with plenty of gun-slinging cowboys selling dangerous or counterfeit products for a quick profit. These weight loss jabs could provide one powerful preventative solution to reduce the numbers of people living with obesity before obesity-related illnesses become an uncontrolled inferno.”
Dr Jack Mosley’s groundbreaking book is your complete trusted guide to the new weight-loss revolution.
In the foreword, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, a GP who has supported hundreds of patients to lose weight, reduce their blood sugars and put their diabetes into remission, says Jack’s medical knowledge and passion to help others, just like his father, means he is the ideal person to write this book.
“It wasn’t until Jack and I were having a conversation about how transformative the weight loss medications are, when it comes to shedding the pounds, that it became obvious he should write about this weight loss revolution,” Clare writes.
“For some time, Michael had been following the extraordinary explosion of the weight loss drugs with fascination. He could see clearly that they were a game changer … could see the significant potential benefits, but he was also well aware that they are powerful and need to be used with some degree of support, and alongside a good-quality lifestyle program.”
These new medications are out there, with minimal or no regulation or backing, and Clare declares: “We are now scrambling to make sense of how these drugs will change the weight loss environment — for better or worse.”
A bonus with Food Noise, along with colour illustrations, are the 50 easy-to-follow recipes, packed with beneficial nutrients, and a week’s worth of meal plans.
Jack has some big shoes to fill, but he genuinely steps up to the plate to write this enlightening and timely book!
Food Noise: How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings, by Dr Jack Mosley, Hachette Australia, $34.99
