Dr Clare Bailey, the widow of Michael Mosley, has said she wants to “honour his work” and ensure his legacy is to make it “much easier for people to live a healthier life”. Mosley, whose broadcasting career focused on helping people improve their health, died last month aged 67 while on holiday in Greece.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Bailey, a GP turned health columnist and author, said her husband “would have been gobsmacked” by the scale of the public response to his death. “I’m still breath-taken by the response from people around the country, across the world, and it’s just extraordinary,” she said.
Bailey said she was only just beginning to read the huge volume of letters that came in after his death from fans of his work and that she found it “so uplifting” to hear the difference he made to people’s lives. One tribute read: “I honestly never felt so sad about the passing of someone I don’t actually know. I feel I’ve lost a friend.”
Discussing his legacy, Bailey said: “Nutrition is not taught consistently at medical school, still. And so there are so many gaps there that can be improved across the board using the latest evidence and making it much easier for people to live a healthier life.” She described how Mosley lived his own advice, including cold showers and standing on one leg.
