What is your opinion of Dr Oz?

Don't forget Garcinia Cambogia. It's a miracle, I tell you! (sarcasm)

Fame *kitten*, plain and simple.

I prefer red wine...with my quackers.

I really loved Fozzie bear and Yoda was fantastic. That's the right Oz isn't it?

Don't forget the Skexi in The Dark Crystal!

Can't afford to watch his show :laugh:

Every time Oz sells something new, my elderly customers run to my store (Walgreens) and demand the new product that we don't have. Of course, they don't know what the product is called, or who makes it, and most of the time they're fuzzy on what it does or how it works, which makes it impossible to order from other stores. And then they whine about "Dr. Oz said you carry it! Dr. Oz says I can buy it from Walgreenses! We must haves it! The preciousssss!"
By the next week that product is forgotten and they're asking for something new and inane. One time I got a lady who NEEDED a vitamin C cream. I asked her what it was for- basic moisturizer, fine line eraser, dark spot remover? What? And she DIDN"T KNOW. She didn't know what it was called, or what it even looked like. Dr. Oz's viewership is worse than small children in the toy aisle. At least a kid knows the name of the Disney character they absolutely must have in their toy collection.

I really find all this sad. I was convinced that I couldn't stick with a diet by just cutting calories. I tried fad diets, waited for the "miracle pill" meanwhile I just kept gaining weight.

Then a professor at the University that I went to wrote a paper on what he called the c-store diet. He went on a diet and everything he ate was from a convientent store. He ate twinkies, doritos, hot dogs, candy bars, you name it. Anything you could buy at a convienient store.

The catch was, he stayed under 2,000 calories. His point was to prove it didn't matter what you ate, you could lose weight by calorie deficet.

I figured if he could stick to a diet where he ate twinkies, which would pretty much account for a good majority of your calories a day. I could stick to a diet where I ate healthy and stayed under 2,000 calories.

Guess what, it has worked. I think these fad diet are bad for people. It gives them hope that an easy solution is right around the corner. The thing is, when I finally started eating at a deficet, it was easier to stick to than any other diet I've ever tried I was just convinced that it was impossible.

They've conviced people that it's impossible to lose weight just by eating less, the only way to lose weight is to cover yourself in bacon greese and eat pickles in a dark closet. When that doesn't work, something new comes along.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck......He's a quack!!!:noway:

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