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More WOO from Dr Oz

I always wonder why people prefer to take magic pills. I mean, raspberries are delicious. Plus, you get the other nutrition in the raspberry, regardless of whether there was anything to the ketone schpeal or not.
 
I bought into this Raspberry Ketone thing for a little bit (and it was a tough thing to find in stock at the drug store), but I got better (when I realized taking it hadn't changed my weight at all). These days I watch Dr.Oz to see what crazy thing he's pushing next, and it's actually my husband who might possibly believe in the snake oil sometimes, not me, so I try to watch it with him, and provide a skeptical voice for those times he suspends his disbelief.
 
Arisia said:
I bought into this Raspberry Ketone thing for a little bit (and it was a tough thing to find in stock at the drug store), but I got better (when I realized taking it hadn't changed my weight at all). These days I watch Dr.Oz to see what crazy thing he's pushing next, and it's actually my husband who might possibly believe in the snake oil sometimes, not me, so I try to watch it with him, and provide a skeptical voice for those times he suspends his disbelief.
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May I ask why the pill form would be more tempting than the fruit? Concentration of the ketones? Just don't like berries?
 
gabeygoat said:
May I ask why the pill form would be more tempting than the fruit? Concentration of the ketones? Just don't like berries?
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In a moment of weakness, I bought the hype that a concentration of ketones would be effective. I love raspberries, they're my favorite berry, actually.
 
It's too bad about Oz, isn't it? I mean, he's in so many living rooms five days a week and he could be making a positive impact and be promoting genuinely beneficial scientific studies and imparting truly useful information. Instead, he's slipped into the woo and has people like Mercola on and never challenges them, leaving people who are looking for answers--and trusting him for them--in the informational lurch.
I don't quite get what his intentions are; I don't know if he actually is able to believe the thins he says or if he just likes the fame and money or if it's both or what. Too bad, though, what a wasted chance to really do some good in the world.
 
gabeygoat said:
I always wonder why people prefer to take magic pills. I mean, raspberries are delicious. Plus, you get the other nutrition in the raspberry, regardless of whether there was anything to the ketone schpeal or not.
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Pretty much this; and it goes for a good portion of the lifestyle that makes a big deal out of consuming only allegedly wholesome, "natural" foods, yet considers supplements of this sort acceptable. A raspberry ketone pill isn't natural at all. Another one of my favorites is "wheatgrass juice", which is most certainly the least-natural way to consume "wheatgrass" that I can think off.
 
The thing about Dr. Oz is, every single one of his shows at some point features at least one food that you "should" eat in a certain dosage on a daily or weekly basis in order to get whatever that day's important food-provided benefit is. Considering his show has been on for a few years, I wonder if it's physically possible in a week to eat everything that Dr. Oz has said one should eat weekly in the amounts he has recommended over the course of his show's airing.
 
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