Oprahs diet and Atkins diet

Oprahs diet and Atkins diet - almost the same

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tunderbar@hotmail.com - 29 Aug 2005 21:47 GMT

http://www2.oprah.com/presents/2005/bootcamp/eat/eat_rules.jhtml

Overall, eat lean protein, two fruits a day, and all the green
vegetables you want.

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The main rule: eliminate the white stuff-bread, pasta, potatoes,
rice-as well as candy, pastry, cookies, cake. "A few people might get
evil on me," Oprah says, knowingly-sugar deprivation can turn even a
saint nasty!

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For the first month, stay away from whole grains (brown rice, oatmeal,
whole wheat cereals and breads). After that, you can slowly add them
back.

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Interesting how she isn't crowing loudly about low-carbing, especially
when after a lifetime of failed attempts to lose the weight, she
finally finds a diet that has worked. Anyone remember when she dragged
a wagon full of 65 pounds of fat to illustrate how much she lost (and
eventually put right back on).

I think she is trying not to offend her advertisers.

TC

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Roger Zoul - 29 Aug 2005 21:53 GMT

:> I think she is trying not to offend her advertisers.

She is a business woman, you know.

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tunderbar@hotmail.com - 29 Aug 2005 22:00 GMT

> :> I think she is trying not to offend her advertisers.
>
> She is a business woman, you know.

Yep, that she is. And she is supposed to have un-assailable credibility
amongst her following. Yet, she would rather protect her advertizing
revenue rather than promote a diet that could literally save lives and
effect vast improvements to peoples' quality of life and health. If she
really wanted to do good she could make her successful diet be known to
everyone up front and loud. She could be pushing low-carb right into
the mainstream. But she choses to go quietly and watch her pile of
riches pile higher.

TC

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Luna - 29 Aug 2005 22:25 GMT

> > :> I think she is trying not to offend her advertisers.
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> TC

I don't know if it's _just_ the advertisers she's concerned with, though
after being sued for her comments about beef, I can't blame her.

I think she may also be a bit reticent to champion any particular diet,
since the last few times she did that she ended up going off the diets
and gaining.

It may also be that she doesn't actually _know_ how close her diet is to
Atkins, if she hasn't researched it.

A big fact also to consider, and something she talks about much more
often than about what she eats, is that she's got an emotional
attachment to food. It's her addiction, and she's mentioned it almost
every time I've seen her do a show on any type of addictive behavior. I
think she genuinely sees the emotional component as more important than
which plan you follow, and that is the most individualized component of
losing weight, so the emotional things she has to confront and deal with
aren't the same as they are for anyone else.

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Roger Zoul - 29 Aug 2005 22:55 GMT

:> Roger Zoul wrote:
:>> tunderbar@hotmail.com wrote:
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:> pushing low-carb right into the mainstream. But she choses to go
:> quietly and watch her pile of riches pile higher.

1) she promotes HER diet
2) she likely is afraid of a diet high in fat...

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jbuch - 30 Aug 2005 14:44 GMT

>>:> I think she is trying not to offend her advertisers.
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> TC

She has some "Rabid Followers"

Some could call that credibility ..... and it is, of a limited sort.

I suspect that Oprah is quite skilled at making money by now.

Financial richness breeds "financial obesity" as cheap food breeds
"Obesity".

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