Y is Dr. Oz always promoting these quick diets

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  • krissy_krossy
    krissy_krossy Posts: 307 Member
    Money.
  • ayerg
    ayerg Posts: 33
    It's very oversimplistic to just blame Dr. Oz for being a sellout. The fact is, I doubt he could have kept a popular TV show about weight loss while telling the truth about it, because nobody wants to hear the truth. Unfortunately, you DO have to make time to exercise. You DO have to exert some sort of self control over the foods you put in your mouth and allow to enter your body. It ISN'T quick and it ISN'T easy.

    Who wants to hear that? Not the masses who religiously tune in to watch the shows that made Dr. Oz famous. It's as much "our" faults as it is his.

    Truth. Nobody is going to watch that past the first commercial break.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    Easy answer....
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  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    Ummmmm who watches that show? Look at what time its on and look at the demographic that watches the show. THATS who is being targeted for these quick diets.

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    ohhhhh sweet brown... i don't know if i will ever get sick of that line
  • HoneyIShrunktheMom
    HoneyIShrunktheMom Posts: 76
    More so... why are people dumb enough to believe that quick fixes really work?
    Because they are desperate and want to lose weight so badly and just don't know how. It's not that they are dumb, they are just scared and don't know how to do it. A "doctor" tells them that this easy fix will work and they WANT to believe it so much, that they try.

    Obviously, quick fixes don't work. How many people have surgical procedures to tie off their stomach to lose weight at first but as soon as they stretch their stomach back out they gain it back again.

    The only way to lose weight is to change your life.

    Most overweight people are addicted to food and it's HARD to break that cycle. They aren't dumb.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Because they are desperate and want to lose weight so badly and just don't know how. It's not that they are dumb, they are just scared and don't know how to do it. A "doctor" tells them that this easy fix will work and they WANT to believe it so much, that they try...
    A Doctor promoted and made famous by Oprah, no less....only adds to his perceived credibility in the eyes of her adoring throng.

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