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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Does Dr. Oz Know REAL Nutrition?

Does Dr. Oz Know REAL Nutrition?

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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My son and I watched a few minutes of Dr. Oz’s TV show on overcoming obesity last night. The show airs on Discovery Health. For fun, we both decided to watch a few minutes of the show and see how many things Dr. Oz got wrong until the next commercial break.

It didn’t take long, I can assure you!

First of all, Dr. Oz seems obsessed with having overweight people work out every single day.

I realize that physical activity is an important part of losing weight, but unless you are eating the right foods to give you stable blood sugar and lasting energy, the fitness habit will just never happen.  The participants just get too worn out and quit their required workout routines very quickly.

The next thing that made my son and I nearly fall off the couch was Dr. Oz teaching some poor gal in his own kitchen how to eat what he thought were “healthy foods”.

First, he gives her a bowl of fat-free plain yogurt mixed with some blackberries and a plate of edamame beans to eat.

This guy can’t be that out of touch with reality, can he?   Evidently so.

If someone fed me a bowl of fat-free yogurt and a bunch of edamame, I would go and very quickly stick my entire head in a large bag of potato chips and I don’t even have a weight issue.   Can you imagine what feeding this unsatisfying fare to an obese person would do to his/her hunger cravings?

Remove the creamy, luscious fat from the top of a container of yogurt and you have a meal that will leave you scrounging for cookies, donuts, and chips in very short order.

Then, there’s the edamame.   Shame on Dr. Oz for not being up on the dangers of soy to the thyroid gland.   An obese person should be running for the hills away from soy, not eating it as a recommended snack!  Soy is a potent goitrogen (thyroid suppressor) and contributes greatly to hypothyroidism which an obese person would almost certainly suffer from.   Any doctor who advises an obese patient to be eating soy should have his head examined.

We turned the TV off at that point.   I couldn’t watch it anymore and it had only been about 10 minutes.    Those poor folks trying to lose weight on that show don’t have a prayer of slimming down and maintaining it for any length of time.

As soon as the cameras stop rolling, they will be diving back into their processed foodways once again, I have no doubt.    Only Real Food that contains lots of natural, unprocessed animal fats like eggs (with the yolks!), whole milk, butter, cheese, cream, coconut oil, grass-fed meats with all the fat will satisfy that hunger and stabilize the blood sugar enough to help them finally let go of the carb and sugar addiction that is the true cause of their obesity and ill health.

Until the truth of the nutritional paradox that whole, unprocessed fats do not make you fat actually goes mainstream, then America’s obesity epidemic will only get worse.

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (52)

  1. Soviet

    Sep 30, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    He is a HEART DOCTOR, not an expert on every medical subject. Thus, he should have a tv show solely based on everything to do with the heart -ONLY. Also, alot of the things he “prescribes” to do, condradict or counteract one another, making it close to IMPOSSIBLE to follow thru with everything he says. It’s astonishing how he’s made people believe he is an expert in every field, and that people actually get hypnotized into believing all of his advice and health claims. Listening to him talk is no joy either, you’d think that someone with years of schooling who hosts a tv show, would also have enough brains to get some speech therapy, or perhaps slow down while talking, to be more comprehendable.

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  2. Luda

    Jan 25, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Can someone please tell me if Organic soy is just as bad, especially when its sprouted in breads. Im having hard time finding that information.

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  3. Elizabeth

    Jan 12, 2013 at 2:07 am

    Would you comment on non GMO soy lecithin such as what would be found in the Greens’ Plus products?

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  4. Elliot

    Nov 29, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    Hi Sarah,

    After reading your article about Dr. Oz, I find myself agreeing with you for the most part. I have not been comfortable with A LOT that Dr. Oz has taught over the years! But, my opinions are merely intuitive. I have no real background in nutrition either. There are a lot of “HEALTH EXPERTS” out there touting a lot of conflicting things about what’s healthy and what’s not healthy. And, there’s no shortage of non-professionals making assertions (including some of the people blasting dr oz here) . How would you suggest one go about deciding what info is good vs bad???

    Respectfully…Elliot

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  5. Mish

    Feb 15, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    Hi Sarah,

    What do you think about grapeseed oil? I use it a lot…
    Also, how good is cocoa butter (dark chocolate)?

    Mish

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