What a relief to finally see a major magazine like Newsweek do a feature article on Oprah and her antics on weight loss, longevity and healthy living.  For decades we watch her on roller coaster diets and we still listen to her advice as she brings in experts on exercise, food portion control and food content.  The ‘Oprah Effect’ encompasses everything from fad diets, books, positive thinking, autism and even interior decorating, and her disciples always follow her every word and go out and spend their money on whatever she deems to be good.

Newsweek has finally investigated the matter to determine that some of Oprah’s ideas and her guests’ ideas are just down-right outlandish, impractical or unhealthy.  Oprah’s campaign to ‘Live Your Best Life Ever’ is finally being questioned.  There was only a small portion of the article that actually agreed with Oprah’s philosophy and that was on diet and exercise:

“Right about now is when you might be asking, is there anything Oprah gets right? In fact, there is. For one, she gives excellent diet and fitness tips. Two of her longest-serving resident experts, Dr. Mehmet Oz and trainer Bob Greene, routinely offer sound, high-quality advice to Oprah and her audience on how to lose weight and improve overall health. For the most part, it is free of the usual diet-industry hype, perhaps because so many of her viewers are on to those scams by now. Oz’s and Greene’s philosophy amounts to: eat nutritious foods, and exercise.”

However, it’s not new news that people should eat nutritious foods and exercise.  What’s more interesting is that Oprah earns millions of dollars a year but can’t seem to get her own weight under control but yet we still listen to her as if she is the all-knowing Oprah.