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? Â 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.
Thanks. I'm so on it!
Hi Jubilee, the most important post I have written to get you started on the right path of nutritional truth is the post called "Five Fats You MUST Have in Your Kitchen". If you look to the right of this post under "Most Popular Posts" you will see the link to go to it. I would also suggest you peruse the free cooking e-class section also to the right that will show you in video and written form how to properly prepare many types of healthy foods in a traditional manner. Good luck and welcome to the other side!
This is the first post of yours that I have read. Suddenly I feel overwhelmed and am questioning everything I thought I knew about food and weight loss.
Which of your posts do you recommend I start with to get an overview "tutorial"? I am on an extremely tight budget for groceries, but want to make the most of it in a healthy way. I am ready to be educated. Please help!
Hi Carolpie, if I remember right, soy lecithin is the waste product (basically sludge) from the manufacturing process of crushing the soybean to make soy oil. It is not a great food to eat, but in small amounts won't hurt most people. GMO soy lecithin is better at least. I try not to eat it at all as it seems to be in all the processed foods even at the healthfood store. Berlin Bakery makes a very nice sprouted spelt bread. You can ask your healthfood store to order it for you.
I've tried to watch Dr. Oz in the past but I feel like all his show does is create a feeling of fear. For me I found nothing helpful or optimistic about the show….just fear mongering!!! No thank you!! I have better things to do with my time!!!
I never watch his show, but I'm constantly battling with him via my friends. They think I'm crazy and will say "but Dr.Oz says….". Its frustrating.
I do agree with pp, he is a little more open minded than many other doctors.
ha,ha, point taken Clair.
Chanelle, yes traditionally fermented soy sauce is fine. Thank you for catching that omission. I have some in fridge as I type this.
Get Dr. Oz off the tv and put on a Real Food Cooking Show.
Sarah, you didn't mention fermented soy sauce on your list of healthy soy… That is another good one, right?
BTW, K sharp–Sarah may not be a scientist, but many scientists agree about the dangers of soy.
K Sharp, the soy in your shake and found so readily in the West is NOT the soy they eat in the East. Have you ever spoken to a doctor of Chinese Medicine trained in the East? They won't eat the GMO, non-fermented soy found here. Won't touch it, either. Comparing the soy consumption between the modern West and the traditional East can't be done beyond the name soy.