More Large Employers Offer Chronic Disease Management Programs To Reduce Health Care Costs

Won't work in a million years. (here's why)

From the report:

"The number of companies taking action to combat the chronic health conditions of employees and their families jumped almost 30 percentage points over the past year, as organizations attempt to balance rapidly rising U.S. health care costs with a growing population of unhealthy Americans, according to a recently released survey by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company.

The number of Americans with chronic illnesses — and the health costs associated with treating these conditions — continues to grow at alarming rates. According to a recently published report by the Milken Institute, the total cost spent on managing chronic health diseases in the U.S. is estimated to be $1.3 trillion annually, with $1.1 trillion spent in lost productivity and another $277 billion on treatment. For diabetes alone, Hewitt estimates that a typical employer with 9,500 employees and 500 pre-65 retirees spends $18 to $22 million on direct medical care for its diabetic population.

To mitigate these costs and improve the declining health of their workforces, Hewitt's survey of 343 large U.S. employers found that almost two-thirds (65 percent) continue to make significant investments in improving the health and productivity of their workforce...

While an increasing number of employers are targeting specific conditions among their member population, Hewitt research shows only a small percentage of workers who are eligible to participate in condition management programs actually do so. Even fewer are actually satisfied with the programs' results.

'The long-term success of these initiatives depends heavily on members changing behavior to manage their conditions,' said Jennifer Boehm, a principal in Hewitt's Health Management Consulting practice. 'Many of the root causes of chronic conditions, particularly diabetes, are lifestyle-related, which means they are avoidable. Employers with well-designed condition management programs that encourage healthy people to stay healthy and help at-risk individuals reduce their chances of becoming chronically ill will ultimately see the best returns. Even moderate changes in participant behavior can result in significant annual cost savings and a healthier workforce over time.'"

Here's the fix.

Folic Acid Fortification May Be Linked To Increased Colon Cancer Risk

Still think they have any idea of what a "safe" supplement is?

"'Our data provide new evidence that a folate fortification program could be associated with an additional risk of colon cancer,' according to the new report by Dr. Sandra Hirsch and colleagues of University of Chile, Santiago...

Chile is the third country to report an apparent increase in colorectal cancer after introducing a national folic acid fortification program. A 2007 paper suggested increases in colorectal cancer after folic acid fortification was introduced in the United States and Canada in the mid-1990s."

Bet you did not know about the increases in the USA and Canada.

No matter.

Just shows how absolutely clueless the experts are about the consequences of their recommendations.

The Pig Is Clever Like A Fox

Oprah's participation in the weight loss debate is an Orwellian nightmare - the pig is in charge.

Well, the pig is clever like a fox.

Just in time to rollout the new version of the book she co-wrote with Bob Greene, AdipOprah, an IMHO whore-for-the-money and clear threat to people's health, devoted the cover and cover story of her O(bese), The AdipOprah magazine, to her weight woes.

In typical fatso style she basically blames her alleged mere 40-pound weight gain on her poor, defenseless, thyroid gland (again).

She is clearly spewing the slop in which she rolls.

The rollout of her “updated and revised” book together with the rollout of her personal story about why she cannot get the rolls out of her belly are an interesting coincidence.

I will bet, it was not “updated and revised” to tell people it is crap and that she and Bob are liars.

Personally, IMHO, it is nothing more than another attempt by a crooked person to rip-off money from desperate people. (According to the bovine billionaire herself, there are "more than 2.4 million" of them who read the magazine. Add to that the people who watch her TV show, listen to her radio programming, watch her TV network and visit her website and you have an awful lot of impressionable people being fooled.)

What she is talking about this 2008 holiday season is, IMHO, nothing more than another attempt at thievery. This is not new for them as Bob and Oprah, IMHO, have a history of using lies and falsified images to scam the public.

(IMHO, Oprah with Bob are every bit as crooked as Oprah is with her other boys, Mehmet and Michael, David and Jorge.)

Despite the fact that the IMHO whore-for-the-money admits that she was gaining weight beginning "in February 2007," she was too greedy to recuse herself from promoting the diet scheme concocted by her and Bob, instead averring how well it worked for her. Even to this day.

I just pulled this (12-14-08) from their diet website. The website is copyright, 2007. The hardcover edition of the book came out December 26, 2006. The paperback edition came out December 26, 2007. The "I" is fatso "O":

I lost weight in stages. First I became active, and I still work out even though I really hate it, but I know if I don’t I will end up 200 pounds again. Then I started working on my eating. I stopped eating past 7:30 at night. When Bob told me it would make a big difference in my weight, I resisted. I thought it was going to be too hard. But I was surprised to find that it wasn’t; even more surprised when it turned out to be one of the most effective changes I made.

I’ve now taken most of the bad foods out of my diet and replaced them with good. I eat smaller portions and I eat healthy foods as a way of life, not a diet to go on and off.

Liar.

And the picture used on the website to promote the diet is:

Double liar.

(Here are real images of Oprah on her/Bob's diet.

Triple liar.)

Which is the same picture (the background was changed) she and Bob used to rip people off in 2008, on their website:

Quadruple liar.

And other places on the web:



Quintuple liar.

And at a "discount":



Sextuple liar.

And they promoted her and still promote her (12-24-08) as a "success" on their diet (enlarge the image if you have to or just click on it to get to the page):

Septuple liar.

Scummy Oprah and Bob are all talk about integrity as if it means something to them. This is from the complaint to the FTC about Bob and Oprah and their false and deceptive advertising:

"As will be seen in Exhibits A, B and M, there is much made of 'truth' and 'truthfulness' by both Mr. Greene and Ms. Winfrey. Likewise, they speak of accepting responsibility for one’s actions. In fact, 'truthfulness' and 'responsibility' appear in the General Index on pages 272 and 271, respectively, in the hardcover edition.

I submit that in the FTC’s taking of its responsibility it has the opportunity to not only protect consumers from what I contend (and what I posit a reasonable consumer would contend if he/she were aware of them) are clearly false and deceptive advertising practices, but also to provide Ms. Winfrey and Mr. Greene with opportunities to accept responsibility for and the consequences of their dishonesty and untruthfulness."

You can check out the Exhibits here.

Here is their chance to stop the talk and do the walk, which, incidentally, Oprah claims is a big part of the fatso "cure":

"All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in!"

What to do?

Give back all the money they took under clearly false pretenses (plus interest earned and any damages), apologize to the world, do some jail time for being the IMHO crooks they are, shut their mouths for good (and the mouths of Oprah's other experts), stop publishing/writing on topics at which they are failures, slither off into the sunset and just go away for good.

That is integrity.

Incidentally, there is one truth among all this drivel of hers.

"All you have to do is…eat less!"

If this means fewer Calories in than out, then she is right.

And what is most important is that you do not need their sh**ty book in order to do that.

Complain to the FTC about her, Bob, Mehmet, Michael, David and Jorge, so it will get these IMHO parasites out from the broadcast media.

The sooner the better. Stop them before they harm again.

You can make a difference.

Oprah and Bob Greene Scamming The Public - Again

The headline links to the Oprahcide or Death By Oprah website.

This link will take you to the Jail For Oprah website where you will find FTC complaints filed re:

Oprah and Bob and

Oprah and her diet expert's books and

Oprah, Jorge Cruise and David Katz.

Here is a picture of Bob and an Oprah that never existed in reality:



I am clear that, IMHO, Oprah and Bob are two of the leaders in the nutritional homicide movement. There are others, like Mehmet Oz, IMHO.

But what is so grossly apparently dishonest, is the Photoshopped image of AdipOprah.

Her entry into the fitness/weight loss domain is like the book Animal Farm.

The pig is in charge.

She claims to be all about integrity, but it is clear to me that she is a dishonest person who has a profit-motivated integrity of convenience that is basically the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her Photoshop.

This is how Oprah really looks.

Big and fat and with chinny chin chins.

And big thighs and fat ass.

To see more images of AdipOprah and how she really looks following Bob's and Oprah's Best Life Diet, go:

here

here

here

here

here

here

The images above cover the period of time from around the release of their book, December 26, 2006, until just about the present.



But when you are a whore for the money, well, truth in extra-large packaging goes out the door.

However, "Sale Pricing" does not.

Here is a new "deal" Bob and The Killer Queen of Daytime TV are offering.



One look at the real Oprah - same faked image.

One look at the real Oprah - same doomed to fail advice.

One look at the real Oprah - same guaranteed to make you poorer and them richer scam.

This is how The Best Life Diet is described at amazon.com:

"From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step."

Just like he did for Oprah! (see images and image links above, in case you have forgotten how good Bob is and/or how fat Oprah is)

Shame on her.

She should be ashamed but I suspect she is not.

If she ever had an ounce of shame, it has likely been replaced by pounds of fat.

In Oprah's own words:

"Excerpt from The Best Life Diet (sic) - by Oprah Winfrey

You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth. Every unwanted pound creates another layer of lies."

Right.

And Oprah is the multi-layered liar.

Laughing all the way to the bank with your money.

To find out more about what I believe is going on, read the FTC complaint filed regarding her and Bob. It is available here.

Consumer Reports - Profile In Incompetence (Update)

Today is April 30, 2009. No response from CR since June 11, 2007.

Here is a chronicle of my communications with Consumer Reports re: their June 2007 cover story on "Rating the Diets."

The quality of their work is, IMHO, shamefully shoddy and their analytical skills fatally flawed - just like diet programs.

Of particular interest is CR's response, via a Mr. Harzewski speaking for the Editors.

Read it all.

Then, you decide.

To me, these folks are dangerously incompetent.

Caveat subscriber.

To access all the Fitness Rants, click here.

Most Psychiatrists Who Wrote Clinical Guidelines Had Financial Ties to Drug Companies, Study Shows

Even if they had any idea of what was going on, it would be suppressed.

"Most of the psychiatrists on the American Psychiatric Association panels who wrote the newest clinical guidelines for how to treat depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia had financial ties to drug companies, according to a study by Boston researchers scheduled to be published this month in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, the Boston Globe reports."

Fitness will lessen your likelihood of needing drugs of all kinds.

Why not give getting fit some thought, eh?

Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders on the Rise

Now why could this be?

"The number of eating disorder-related hospital stays jumped 18% in the new century, with the increase largely driven by "unspecified" diagnoses, researchers found.

Admissions for an eating disorder rose from 23,807 cases in 1999-2000 to 28,155 cases in 2005-2006, William Encinosa, Ph.D., of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and colleagues reported in a statistical brief...

Dr. Encinosa said when patients attempt to diet by starving themselves and then fail, they could be hospitalized after going on an eating binge."

And who recommends starvation dieting?

The experts. (see here, here, here, here, here and here for a sampling)

And who makes money from the hospitalizations?

"Hospital stays for eating disorders are also becoming more costly, Dr. Encinosa said. Total costs jumped 61% over the study period," and "We don't really know why doctors were diagnosing it..."

Seems like guessing "hospitals and docs" would put you in the ballpark.

Income for the same folks who advocate starvation dieting.

Funny how that happens.

Vegetarians Face Increased Risk Of Eating Disorders

The price of nutritional scrupulousness - mental illness.

"While vegetarians tend to eat healthier diets and are less likely than non-vegetarians to be overweight or obese, they may be at increased risk for binge eating with loss of control, and former vegetarians may be at increased risk for extreme unhealthful weight-control behaviors, according to researchers at University of Minnesota, University of Texas and St. John's University.

The researchers analyzed vegetarianism, weight, dietary intake and weight-control behaviors data from a population-based study in Minnesota of more than 2,500 males and females between 15 and 23. They found vegetarians ate healthier diets than non-vegetarians when it came to fruits, vegetables and fat intake. Among young adults, current vegetarians were less likely to be overweight or obese.

However, adolescent and young adult vegetarians were also more likely to report binge eating with loss of control compared to non-vegetarians. Among adolescents, former vegetarians were more likely to engage in extreme unhealthful weight-control behaviors. And among young adults, former vegetarians were more likely to engage in extreme unhealthful weight-control behaviors than people who either were currently vegetarians or had never followed a vegetarian eating plan."

Interestingly, good students face increased risk of behavior disorders.

They obsess about doing well, lose sleep in order to study, spend an abnormal amount of time away from the television set and exhibit other sick behaviors.

Institutionalize, counsel and/or drug them.

It is for their own good.

Oh, and don't forget - when you eat, eschew your vegetables.

Health Disparities Among Minority Populations Getting Worse

How can this be?

"Despite government efforts to address disparities in the past decade, beginning with President Clinton's 1998 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative, there has been very little progress. African-Americans have more disease, disability, and early death than Caucasians."

It couldn't maybe be that "government efforts" are irrational, government oversight of the messages people receive is wanting and the experts out there are spouting lunacy?

Or maybe it could.

Diet, Colon Cancer And The Microbes In Your Gut

Another they have no idea what a "healthy" food is, article.

"A typical Western diet, rich in meat and fats and low in complex carbohydrates, is a recipe for colon cancer, Professor Stephen O'Keefe from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, told the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Harrogate...

'A diet rich in fibre and resistant starch encourages the growth of good bacteria and increases production of short chain fatty acids which lessen the risk of cancer, while a high meat and fat diet reduces the numbers of these good bacteria.'"

That "better" diet would be a vegetarian diet which is "rich in fibre and resistant starch."

But vegetarians have a higher rate of colorectal cancer. At least according to these other researchers. (Read past the title to the "meat" of the post.)

Still think they have any idea what they are talking about?

Body Mass Index Does Not Improve When Practicing School-Based Physical Activity

Who could have seen this coming? Fitness Watch readers, of course.

"Dr. Kevin Harris, BC Children's Hospital and his team write: 'Although the physical activity interventions in the studies we analyzed were not successful in improving BMI, the underlying reasons for failure were unclear.' They point out that BMI did not improve because the amount of physical activity may have been insufficient or because other causal factors may have a more important effect on BMI."

Wonder what those "other causal factors (that) may have a more important effect on BMI" might be?

Try parents, doctors, nurses, teachers and principals, for starters.

If you can tolerate the medical-ese, read the complete article found here.

It is arguably an exercise in self-contradiction, speculation and excusination as the authors scramble to find benefits to programs which they outright claim and clearly demonstrate do not work.

Grapefruit diet 'put leg at risk'

Just when you thought it was good to eat fruit.

"A woman who went on an intense grapefruit-based diet developed a blood clot in her leg and risked losing the limb, US doctors have reported...

Medics concluded grapefruit had affected the way the 42-year-old's body processed her contraceptive pill...

Three days before falling ill, she had begun a crash diet which included eating 225g of grapefruit each morning, after rarely eating the fruit in the past."

This amount of grapefruit is a mere 1/2 pound.

This is the equivalent of eating one 3-3/4" diameter grapefruit daily for 3 days.

A grapefruit a day, makes the doctor say "Hooray!"

Link Between Infant Weight Gain And Childhood Obesity

More about nutritional child abuse.

"As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why - and the reasons are many. Increasingly sedentary environments for both adults and children, as well as cheap and ubiquitous processed foods no doubt play a role, but researchers are finding more evidence that the first clues for childhood obesity may begin as far back as early infancy.

A new study led by researchers in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, as well as Children's Hospital Boston, has found that rapid weight gain during the first six months of life may place a child at risk for obesity by age 3."

Complicit in all this are the "health care providers (who) are struggling to find out why."

There is only one cause and that is more Calories in than out.

And there is only one reason - nutritionally abusive parents.

And sustaining the system are complicit sick care workers who would rather play games trying to obfuscate the matter to prevent its solution, than doing their legally mandated duty and help the kids.

Twenty Members Of Congress Join The Humana Foundation In American Horsepower ChallengeSM To Fight Childhood Obesity

Brilliant move!

"The Humana Foundation, philanthropic arm of health-benefits company Humana Inc., is teaming with 20 members of Congress to offer 2,000 U.S. elementary and middle school students a unique exercise/video-game program intended to increase the kids' activity to improve their health."

Since weight loss is a matter of more Calories spent than saved, who better to recruit for leadership than our elected representatives?

Diabetes-related stress may affect blood sugar

Coming soon! Massage and aroma therapies, tranquilizers and easy listening music to treat fat diabetics.

"Adults with type 2 diabetes appear to have better blood sugar control when they report less diabetes-related stress and feel more satisfied with their treatment regimen, study findings suggest."

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes, i.e., fatabetes.

"The investigators call for further research to determine whether improvement of glycemic control results in decreased distress and increased treatment satisfaction, or if improved psychosocial factors bring about better glycemic control."

Love, peace, freedom, harmony, happiness and glycemic control.

The jury is out on medical marijuana until research into the effects of the munchies on fatabetics is completed.

Full Disclosure: People Will Make Healthier Choices If Restaurants Provide Nutritional Data

Whatcha gonna believe?

"The authors set out to examine how providing calorie and nutrient information on restaurant menus and menu boards influences consumers' food-related evaluations and choices. They looked at how participants' prior expectations came into play and whether providing calorie and nutrient information after the consumptive experience changed their subsequent food choices.

The researchers found that providing nutritional information can influence subsequent food consumption, especially when consumers' expectations are not fulfilled when they examine the information."

Then there is this.

Think they have any idea what they are talking about?

When unhealthy foods hijack overeaters' brains

When bulls**t hijacks researchers' brains.

"Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the government's attack on addictive cigarettes can't wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's chocolate-covered pretzels. Stop at one cookie? Rarely.

It's not an addiction but it's similar, and he's far from alone. Kessler's research suggests millions share what he calls 'conditioned hypereating' — a willpower-sapping drive to eat high-fat, high-sugar foods even when they're not hungry."

And after all the "conditioned hypereating" mumbo-jumbo and hijacking crap, where do Kessler and the others end-up?

"People who aren't overweight can be conditioned hypereaters, too, Kessler found — so it's possible to control...

Retrain the brain to think, 'I'll hate myself if I eat that,' Kessler advises. Lay down new neural reward circuits by substituting something else you enjoy, like a bike ride or a healthier food.

Make rules to resist temptation: 'I'm going to the mall but bypassing the food court.'

And avoid cues for bad eating whenever possible. Always go for the nachos at your friends' weekend gathering spot? Start fresh at another restaurant."

Self-control.

If you need a plan that can work for you...

Insomnia may alter "hunger hormone"

The importance of being duplicitous.

"Studies have linked poor sleep to obesity and other health problems, and now new research suggests a reason why.

The study, of 38 men with and without chronic insomnia, found that those with the sleep disorder had 30 percent lower nighttime levels of the hormone ghrelin, which is involved in appetite control...

...Ghrelin is secreted by the stomach to boost appetite.

In this study, men with chronic insomnia had lower overnight levels of ghrelin compared with their healthy counterparts. While that might seem like a good thing, the findings actually point to a problem in ghrelin regulation in men with insomnia, according to Motivala.

It's possible, he explained, that insomnia patients' ghrelin levels are lower than normal at night, but elevated during the day -- possibly boosting appetite.

On the other hand, he added, people with chronic insomnia may have consistently lower levels of the hormone, pointing to general dysregulation in how ghrelin is 'expressed' in the body."

Two opposite, diametrically opposed explanations for the same finding.

"It's possible" that this is all crap. (likely)

"On the other hand," realizing that it's all crap puts no money in the hands of researchers. (certain)

Fat infants at risk of being obese toddlers: study

More nutritional child abuse.

"Infants who gain too much weight as babies are more likely to grow into obese toddlers, showing the importance of early eating habits...

Obesity rates among U.S. children have doubled in the last 20 years, and almost a third of American children are either overweight or obese. The epidemic of obesity is linked to a host of health problems such as higher risks for heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

'(This) suggests that it is rapid weight gain in infancy that puts children at risk' more than heavy birth weight, Elsie Taveras and fellow researchers wrote."

Clearly.

Stop the nutritional child abuse.

Fish oil pills don't boost benefit of heart drugs

Still think they have any idea what supplements really do?

"Heart attack patients who are already taking the right medicines to prevent future problems get no added benefit from taking fish oil capsules, a large study in Germany finds.

The study tested a 1-gram daily dose of a prescription version of highly purified omega-3 fatty acid — the 'good fat' contained in certain oily fish that is thought to help the heart.

Researchers led by Dr. Jochen Senges of the University of Heidelberg gave fish oil or dummy capsules to more than 3,800 people who had suffered a heart attack in the previous two weeks. About 90 percent were already receiving all the medicines recommended to prevent a second attack, including aspirin, anti-clotting and cholesterol drugs.

After a year, it made no difference whether these patients took fish oil or dummy capsules. In both groups, fewer than 2 percent had suffered sudden cardiac death, 4 percent had another heart attack, and fewer than 2 percent had suffered a stroke."

Fish everywhere must be gilling a gulp of relief.

PETA, too.

Tired of the treadmill? Get out and play instead

More stupidity from ACSM, the same morons who bring you Olympic effort as moderate intensity exercise.

"Play is 'the perfect anecdote (sic) for when your exercise routine starts to feel like more of a chore than an activity of enjoyment,' health scientist from Bethesda, Maryland, and ACSM faculty member Dr. Carol E. Torgan noted in a statement from the meeting. It's good for the body, mind and soul."

Too bad it isn't an "ANTIDOTE for when your exercise routine starts to feel like more of a chore than an activity of enjoyment."

And "play" is apparently not so "good for the...mind" when you don't know the difference between "anecdote" and "antidote."

Whatever.

"To rediscover your inner child, visit a playground, toss a Frisbee, take a hike, go rock climbing, pick up a hoola hoop, or dance. An adult weighing 150 pounds can burn more than 300 calories an hour by dancing."

Or an adult can spend no time at all and consume 300 fewer Calories by substituting sugar-free soda for sugared ones.

BTW, ACSM, today's "inner child" is enveloped in a outer layer of fat, a kind of pig in a blanket.

Or haven't you been watching?

"'If you spent your childhood outside exploring,' suggested Torgan, 'head out the front door and try Geocaching' -- an outdoor treasure hunt game using GPS...

Another benefit of 'play' exercise is that it 'doesn't require expensive equipment, a gym membership, or form-fitting Lycra - it's free. You only need an open mind,' Torgan said."

No "expensive equipment" unless you are "Geocaching."

Don't these people pay any attention to the crap they spout?

Polypill 'could become a reality'

Probably.

"The concept of a polypill for everyone over 55 to cut heart disease by up to 80% was mooted over five years ago, but slow progress has been made since.

Now a trial in India shows such a pill has the desired effects and is safe and well-tolerated by those who take it...

Critics say the problems of high blood pressure and cholesterol should be tackled with diet and exercise rather than by popping a pill."

As if diet and "exercise" (it is better to train) could ever become realities.

You "critics" must be as crazy as those nuts at Fitness Watch.

Hey, maybe you are some of the nuts at Fitness Watch.

"'Eating healthily and taking regular exercise are proven ways to lower high blood pressure - and have many other health benefits too - and there is a danger that these lifestyle factors could be overlooked in favour of 'popping a pill'."

Ya think?

But how can you callously overlook the profits to drug companies and prescribing docs that we can all pay for by suggesting such a thing?

Just like those cold, hard-hearted people at Fitness Watch.

Fitness Guidelines 3 Times More Likely To Be Met By Public Transit Users

Makes sense.

"The study, published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, finds that people who take public transit are three times more likely than those who don't to meet the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's suggested daily minimum of physical activity...

Because transit trips by bus and train often involve walking to and from stops, the study found that users are more likely to meet the recommended 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day, five days a week."

And if public transportation where you are is as it is in many places, its unreliability also promotes traveling on foot.

"You don't necessarily have to rebuild communities or make major investments in infrastructure to promote public health," he says. "There are things we can do in the interim, such as encourage people to drive less, and adapt their lifestyles which will get people more physically active and generate fewer greenhouse gasses."

True and sensible insofar as there is no need to redesign communities and infrastructure.

People can be more physically active anywhere, anyplace and at anytime so long as they want to be.

Of course, what was missing from this study is any proof that public transit commuters are "healthier" than others for having met the fitness guidelines.

There is a reason that info was not presented.

Can you guess why?

GAO Sting Shows Independent Review Boards Are Vulnerable to Fraud

So they do know what a "safe" drug is - they just won't tell you since their silence has been bought.

"Institutional review boards (IRBs) may not provide the clinical trial safety net they were designed to be.

That's what Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigators found when they conducted an operation in which a fake study protocol was approved by an independent for-profit IRB.

In a related sting, GAO investigators created a fictitious IRB that managed to pass approval by a Department of Health and Human Services office.

'The IRB system is vulnerable to unethical manipulation,' Gregory Kutz, of the GAO's forensic audit and special investigations unit, told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.

In recent years, oversight of clinical trials has increasingly shifted from academic institutions to independent, for-profit companies, raising concerns that the system could be manipulated, Kutz said."

Rest assured.

And remember it is better to be fit than "need" the intervention of Big Sick Care.

Too many kids spend little time outdoors

Crap.

"Many children spend too little time outdoors and too much time in front of the TV -- and a lack of suitable outdoor spaces seems partly to blame, an Australian study suggests.

The study, of nearly 1,400 10- to 12-year-olds, found that 37 percent typically spent a half-hour or less being active outside."

This is another example of misguided thinking.

Where one spends time being active, makes no difference.

A burned Calorie is a burned Calorie.

Even though "exercise" is a terribly inefficient way to lose weight, which is the primary problem with recommending it for weight loss, taking the foolishness one step further and suggesting location is the issue and "but for it all would be well...," is little more than retarded excusinators working overtime.

Activity is activity no matter where it is done.

Waiting for the perfect environment to be active is a losing strategy.

It is the stupidity of hope.

It is not a plan of action.

Super Bowl loss may cause fans more than heartache

Hey, it is survival of the fittest.

"Passionate football fans take heed: watching your team lose in the Super Bowl could be hazardous to your health.

Researchers have found that overall and circulatory death rates in Los Angeles rose significantly after a crushing defeat for the Rams in the 1980 Super Bowl. Four years later, deaths declined after the city's other team -- the Raiders -- triumphed in the U.S. football championship game.

'The emotional stress of loss and/or the intensity of a game played in a high profile rivalry such as the Super Bowl can trigger total and cardiovascular deaths,' said Dr. Robert Kloner, a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, who presented the study at the American College of Cardiology scientific meeting in Orlando.

'In contrast, a win in a lower intensity game may actually have a favorable effect on mortality.'

Kloner said fans who get excited during sporting events and have risk factors for heart disease should consult their doctor before a big game. Drugs such as beta-blockers, aspirin or anti-anxiety drugs could help them, as could relaxation exercises, such as deep breathing, he said."

Isn't it always the case? If you want to save yourself, consult the people who are killing you.

Take heart, fools, you are not alone.

Stupid loves company and has it:

"A recent German study found viewing a stressful World Cup soccer match led to increased cardiovascular events for fans of the losing team and the U.S. researchers wanted to see if similar results would occur with a major American sporting event."

Phil Gramm was right about the "mental recession" and "a nation of whiners."

Good observation, wrong context.

UK discovers counterfeit insulin pen needles

Another reason to be fit.

"Britain's medicines watchdog said on Friday it had discovered a batch of counterfeit Novo Nordisk insulin pen needles circulating in the country and urged diabetics not to use them...

The discovery is the latest example of fake medicines turning up in the supply chain and highlights the lucrative returns for criminals in passing off bogus treatments as genuine.

In recent years the MHRA has also found a number of counterfeit of batches of top-selling drugs, including Pfizer's cholesterol fighter Lipitor and Sanofi-Aventis' blood-thinner Plavix."

Being fit decreases your likelihood of "needing" these unreliable products.

Cholesterol drug not linked to cancer

Yes it is, no it's not...

"Contrary to a recent report, findings from a large-scale study suggest that the cholesterol-lowering drug Zetia (also known by the generic name, ezetimibe) does not increase the risk of cancer. This also holds true for Vytorin, which combines ezetimibe with simvastatin, another cholesterol-lowering agent."

Still think they have any idea of what a "safe" drug is?

Better not to need the IMHO malpractice known as diet drugs and better to be fit to decrease your chances of "needing" any of these substances.

Very obese fliers on United may have to buy 2nd seat

Fly United!

"United Airlines is requiring extremely obese passengers who can't fit in their seats to pay for a second seat when there is no other way to accommodate their girth.

United said Wednesday that it will charge obese, coach-class passengers for a second coach seat or for upgrading to a larger seat in business or first class, if necessary. The policy applies to United and United Express flights. United published its new policy on its website under 'Passengers requiring extra space.'

'We had 700 complaints about this last year,' said Robin Urbanski, a United (UAUA) spokeswoman. 'Now our employees have a formal policy they can refer to.'

Federal safety regulations require all airline passengers use a seat belt. Passengers using a seat belt extension cannot sit in an emergency exit row.

United's new policy comes into play when a heavy passenger cannot lower the armrests, close the seat belt even with a seat belt extender and seats next to that passenger are full."

And fat flyers pose safety risks to other passengers, too.

"Passengers who refuse to comply will not be allowed to fly."

And good riddance, too.

Expert Sees Ominous Cardiovascular Trends In Young Women

Kudos, fatsos.

"Nanette Wenger, M.D., says the combination of rising obesity levels and lack of exercise are causing the previously decreasing cardiovascular mortality trends in young women (and young men) to either flatten or rise..."

You are reversing that bothersome trend of "decreasing cardiovascular mortality."

Good move.

Metabolism Is Modifiable With The Right Lifestyle Changes

Some important stuff, here.

"The human body can be trained to burn more daily calories with the right nutrition and exercise modifications, according to an expert at American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition.

Liz Applegate, Ph.D., FACSM, director of sports nutrition at the University of California at Davis, says resting metabolic rate - the amount of calories the body burns in a resting state to keep internal organs operating - can be improved through lifestyle changes. The easiest way, she says, to calculate metabolic rate is to figure 10 calories burned for every pound of body weight for women, and 11 calories for every pound of body weight for men. For instance, a 130-pound woman has an approximate resting metabolic rate of 1,300 calories per day."

Note that the RMR (resting metabolic rate) calculation ACSM uses.

This is an important number since the RMR is about 2/3 of a person's daily caloric needs, on average.

Most overweight/obese persons are not 130-pounders. At, for example, 200 pounds, a woman's RMR is 2000 Calories, a man's 2200. This places their maintenance Calories, i.e., the Calories needed for a stable weight, at 3000 for the woman and 3300 for the man.

From ACSM's own starting point, it is easy to understand:

• why diets fail,
  
• why conventional exercise recommendations for weight loss are insane, why conventional diets are doomed to fail, 
  
• why Oprah is an IMHO dangerous moron, 
  
• why her experts are IMHO executioners engaged in nutritional homicide and 
  
• why there is virtually no hope of succeeding on government recommended, Big Sick Care proposed weight loss schemes which then lead to the IMHO twin malpractices of diet drugs and bariatric surgery.
  

If you do read the rest of this ACSM press release, also note that it states that you can "replace...fat with muscle," which is impossible and that muscle gain can apparently be accomplished in a weight loss setting, also impossible since you have to gain weight to gain muscle, i.e., you are adding weight to your body as lean tissue.

More proof, IMHO, as to just how low the bar is set to be an "expert" in the fitness domain.

BTW, isn't metabolism also modifiable with the wrong lifestyle changes?

"Wrong lifestyle changes" as in the ones experts, like the ACSM, recommend.

"Play" Can Be Healthful, Fun Alternative To Typical Exercise

Contradiction in terms alert!

"Unstructured, creative, and spontaneous physical activities that may be reminiscent of child-like play are beneficial, healthy activity options for adults, according to an expert today at the American College of Sports Medicine's 13th-annual Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition.

Carol Torgan, Ph.D., FACSM, says the type of calorie-burning, mind-stimulating play that children often do shouldn't be left behind as people age. Tossing a Frisbee, dancing and rock climbing are great ways for adults to incorporate play into their exercise routines."

Isn't it self-contradictory for "unstructured, creative, and spontaneous physical activities" to be part of an "exercise routine"?

Where is the routine in that?

I guess that ACSM experts don't routinely first think about what they say before they say it.

Beliefs About The Causes Of Obesity Predict Support For Policies To Combat The Problem

Could be a good thing.

"With obesity reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, new research has found that an individual's personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat the problem."

And the one belief everyone should have is that the conventional approach to weight loss can, will, does and has failed because it is wrong.

From that starting belief, you have a chance of succeeding.

And the only "public policy" that will work is holding individuals accountable for their Calorie-related behaviors.

A Closer Look At Dietary Fiber

"They Have No Idea What Is Going On" Alert!

"Heart health, immunity and weight management are three major wellness concerns for today's consumers. Dietary fiber in its various forms can help in these areas, as well as bone and digestive health."

"Digestive health," except for the colon cancer, that is.

Oops.

Study Links Practices Of Food And Tobacco Industries

More from Kelly Brownell or is it Belly Brownell? (see below for pics of this expert)

"In a review and analysis of tobacco and food industry practices, leading researchers from Yale University and the University of Michigan pinpoint similarities in strategies used across both industries.

This research, which appears in the March issue of Millbank Quarterly, identifies parallels in areas such as emphasizing personal responsibility, influencing government and professional organizations, paying scientists who produce favorable research, and marketing 'safer' products. The authors encourage the food industry to change both marketing and nutritional practices to avoid negative consequences to the health of consumers.

'While we recognize the inherent differences between cigarettes and food, the food industry must accept responsibility for what they are selling and how they are selling it,' said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. 'Consumers have a right to accurate information-not just spin-about the safety and nutritional value of the food they are eating.'"

Now, here is the guy who claims to know the info and how he offers consumers "accurate information."

These are pictures of Kelly:

This one is from the Yale Daily News "Updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2009":



Note the article date. This is also the image Kelly currently displays on his LEARN website where you can buy his weight loss advice.

Here is a supposedly current image of Kelly from the Yale website:



This was a "real" expert in weight loss's idea of "accurate information" for you consumers, courtesy of Belly Brownell.

Before you buy his advice or his program, ask yourself, "When will he 'accept responsibility for what [he is] selling and how [he is] selling it'?"

Fire and ambulance recruits often overweight

First responders - to the dinner bell.

"A new study suggests that many young recruits for fire and ambulance services are overweight and already have risk factors for heart disease -- a problem that poses a threat to public safety, researchers say.

In a study of 370 candidates for Massachusetts firefighter and ambulance services, the researchers found that 77 percent of the young recruits were either overweight or obese, based on body mass index (BMI).

BMI is a measure of weight in relation to height, and it is possible for men who are muscular, but not fat, to fall into the "overweight" BMI category."

"Possible," but...

"However, the study found, overweight recruits were not a generally fit bunch. Compared with their normal-weight peers, they had higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol, higher triglycerides (a type of blood fat) and performed less well on fitness tests.

'These findings are strong evidence against the common misconception in the emergency responder community that many of their members have BMIs in the overweight and obese ranges simply on the basis of increased muscle mass,' senior researcher Dr. Stefanos N. Kales noted in a written statement....

For the study, the researchers reviewed medical exam records for 370 mostly male recruits for emergency responder services. All had passed their services' minimum requirements, so the study group included those recruits most likely to get a job, according to the researchers.

Overall, 44 percent of the recruits were overweight and one-third were obese. While all of the normal-weight recruits met the minimum fitness level on exercise tests, 42 percent of obese recruits did not. Obese and overweight candidates also tended to have higher heart rates after a 3-minute step test."

Solution simple.

Don't hire them. Period.

Fast-food diners don't check calorie content

Predictable and predicted.

"Ever wonder how often people take time to find out how many calories are in their large order of fries?

Almost never.

Out of 4311 people buying food at McDonalds, Burger King, Au Bon Pain, or Starbucks, Christina A. Roberto and her colleagues from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut found that just six looked at the nutrition information the restaurants provided, or one-tenth of one percent."

Recall that people wanted this information and now that they have it...

"The findings show 'you've got to have this information in a really highly visible place, like on a menu board,' Roberto told Reuters Health. 'The way it's offered now is just not an effective way to disseminate that kind of information to the public.'"

Hey, Roberto, stupido, the findings show that people want to blame others, as do you, for their own failings.

Morons - consumers and researchers alike.

Medical researchers face conflicts of interest

Another reason to be fit.

"Dr. Bruce Psaty of University of Washington in Seattle knows how easy it can be to fall under the spell of a friendly relationship with drug companies.

As an assistant professor, he published an article on using beta-blockers to treat high blood pressure that caught the attention of the pharmaceutical industry.

'My family and I were invited to a first-class resort, where I presented the results at a sponsored conference,' Psaty wrote in a commentary this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

He agreed to help develop a set of slides on beta-blockers and soon found himself suggesting that the drug company's studies be featured, in part because he felt 'a kind of social duty to reciprocate both the kindness and the investment made by the sponsor in the slide set.'"

There is less need to rely on the possibly corrupted data that the alleged cures for self-inflicted illnesses use to "prove" their value.

Many US middle school kids physically unfit: study

Go figger.

"US kids are not only too heavy; they're also out of shape, according to a new study of 5th and 7th grade students in Georgia."

Now how is it that fat dovetails, er, pigtails, with out of shape?

Hmmm.

It also pigtails with nutritional child abuse.

Do you think for an instant that the docs who did this study stepped-up to the plate and performed their civic duty mandated by law to report these kids?

I'll bet not, which, IMHO makes them complicit in the abuse.

Report 'em to the authorities, child and family services, the local medical society, your state medical licensing board and anywhere else you think appropriate.

High Triglyceride Levels Common, Often Untreated Among Americans

Kudos, fatsos.

"High concentrations of blood fats known as triglycerides are common in the United States, according to a report in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."

Why?

"...physical inactivity, obesity and other modifiable risk factors remain prevalent."

Fat ass, fat blood.

The Pig Is Clever Like A Fox

Oprah's participation in the weight loss debate is an Orwellian nightmare - the pig is in charge.

Well, the pig is clever like a fox.

Just in time to rollout the new version of the book she co-wrote with Bob Greene, AdipOprah, an IMHO whore-for-the-money and clear threat to people's health, devoted the cover and cover story of her O(bese), The AdipOprah magazine, to her weight woes.

In typical fatso style she basically blames her alleged mere 40-pound weight gain on her poor, defenseless, thyroid gland (again).

She is clearly spewing the slop in which she rolls.

The rollout of her “updated and revised” book together with the rollout of her personal story about why she cannot get the rolls out of her belly are an interesting coincidence.

I will bet, it was not “updated and revised” to tell people it is crap and that she and Bob are liars.

Personally, IMHO, it is nothing more than another attempt by a crooked person to rip-off money from desperate people. (According to the bovine billionaire herself, there are "more than 2.4 million" of them who read the magazine. Add to that the people who watch her TV show, listen to her radio programming, watch her TV network and visit her website and you have an awful lot of impressionable people being fooled.)

What she is talking about this 2008 holiday season is, IMHO, nothing more than another attempt at thievery. This is not new for them as Bob and Oprah, IMHO, have a history of using lies and falsified images to scam the public.

(IMHO, Oprah with Bob are every bit as crooked as Oprah is with her other boys, Mehmet and Michael, David and Jorge.)

Despite the fact that the IMHO whore-for-the-money admits that she was gaining weight beginning "in February 2007," she was too greedy to recuse herself from promoting the diet scheme concocted by her and Bob, instead averring how well it worked for her. Even to this day.

I just pulled this (12-14-08) from their diet website. The website is copyright, 2007. The hardcover edition of the book came out December 26, 2006. The paperback edition came out December 26, 2007. The "I" is fatso "O":

I lost weight in stages. First I became active, and I still work out even though I really hate it, but I know if I don’t I will end up 200 pounds again. Then I started working on my eating. I stopped eating past 7:30 at night. When Bob told me it would make a big difference in my weight, I resisted. I thought it was going to be too hard. But I was surprised to find that it wasn’t; even more surprised when it turned out to be one of the most effective changes I made.

I’ve now taken most of the bad foods out of my diet and replaced them with good. I eat smaller portions and I eat healthy foods as a way of life, not a diet to go on and off.

Liar.

And the picture used on the website to promote the diet is:

Double liar.

(Here are real images of Oprah on her/Bob's diet.

Triple liar.)

Which is the same picture (the background was changed) she and Bob used to rip people off in 2008, on their website:

Quadruple liar.

And other places on the web:



Quintuple liar.

And at a "discount":



Sextuple liar.

And they promoted her and still promote her (12-24-08) as a "success" on their diet (enlarge the image if you have to or just click on it to get to the page):

Septuple liar.

Scummy Oprah and Bob are all talk about integrity as if it means something to them. This is from the complaint to the FTC about Bob and Oprah and their false and deceptive advertising:

"As will be seen in Exhibits A, B and M, there is much made of 'truth' and 'truthfulness' by both Mr. Greene and Ms. Winfrey. Likewise, they speak of accepting responsibility for one’s actions. In fact, 'truthfulness' and 'responsibility' appear in the General Index on pages 272 and 271, respectively, in the hardcover edition.

I submit that in the FTC’s taking of its responsibility it has the opportunity to not only protect consumers from what I contend (and what I posit a reasonable consumer would contend if he/she were aware of them) are clearly false and deceptive advertising practices, but also to provide Ms. Winfrey and Mr. Greene with opportunities to accept responsibility for and the consequences of their dishonesty and untruthfulness."

You can check out the Exhibits here.

Here is their chance to stop the talk and do the walk, which, incidentally, Oprah claims is a big part of the fatso "cure":

"All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in!"

What to do?

Give back all the money they took under clearly false pretenses (plus interest earned and any damages), apologize to the world, do some jail time for being the IMHO crooks they are, shut their mouths for good (and the mouths of Oprah's other experts), stop publishing/writing on topics at which they are failures, slither off into the sunset and just go away for good.

That is integrity.

Incidentally, there is one truth among all this drivel of hers.

"All you have to do is…eat less!"

If this means fewer Calories in than out, then she is right.

And what is most important is that you do not need their sh**ty book in order to do that.

Complain to the FTC about her, Bob, Mehmet, Michael, David and Jorge, so it will get these IMHO parasites out from the broadcast media.

The sooner the better. Stop them before they harm again.

You can make a difference.

Oprah and Bob Greene Scamming The Public - Again

The headline links to the Oprahcide or Death By Oprah website.

This link will take you to the Jail For Oprah website where you will find FTC complaints filed re:

Oprah and Bob and

Oprah and her diet expert's books and

Oprah, Jorge Cruise and David Katz.

Here is a picture of Bob and an Oprah that never existed in reality:



I am clear that, IMHO, Oprah and Bob are two of the leaders in the nutritional homicide movement. There are others, like Mehmet Oz, IMHO.

But what is so grossly apparently dishonest, is the Photoshopped image of AdipOprah.

Her entry into the fitness/weight loss domain is like the book Animal Farm.

The pig is in charge.

She claims to be all about integrity, but it is clear to me that she is a dishonest person who has a profit-motivated integrity of convenience that is basically the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her Photoshop.

This is how Oprah really looks.

Big and fat and with chinny chin chins.

And big thighs and fat ass.

To see more images of AdipOprah and how she really looks following Bob's and Oprah's Best Life Diet, go:

here

here

here

here

here

here

The images above cover the period of time from around the release of their book, December 26, 2006, until just about the present.



But when you are a whore for the money, well, truth in extra-large packaging goes out the door.

However, "Sale Pricing" does not.

Here is a new "deal" Bob and The Killer Queen of Daytime TV are offering.



One look at the real Oprah - same faked image.

One look at the real Oprah - same doomed to fail advice.

One look at the real Oprah - same guaranteed to make you poorer and them richer scam.

This is how The Best Life Diet is described at amazon.com:

"From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step."

Just like he did for Oprah! (see images and image links above, in case you have forgotten how good Bob is and/or how fat Oprah is)

Shame on her.

She should be ashamed but I suspect she is not.

If she ever had an ounce of shame, it has likely been replaced by pounds of fat.

In Oprah's own words:

"Excerpt from The Best Life Diet (sic) - by Oprah Winfrey

You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth. Every unwanted pound creates another layer of lies."

Right.

And Oprah is the multi-layered liar.

Laughing all the way to the bank with your money.

To find out more about what I believe is going on, read the FTC complaint filed regarding her and Bob. It is available here.

Consumer Reports - Profile In Incompetence (Update)

Today is April 12, 2009. No response from CR since June 11, 2007.

Here is a chronicle of my communications with Consumer Reports re: their June 2007 cover story on "Rating the Diets."

The quality of their work is, IMHO, shamefully shoddy and their analytical skills fatally flawed - just like diet programs.

Of particular interest is CR's response, via a Mr. Harzewski speaking for the Editors.

Read it all.

Then, you decide.

To me, these folks are dangerously incompetent.

Caveat subscriber.

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Americans say health costs threaten their futures

They say it, but it is crap.

"Virtually all Americans fear that health costs are a threat to their personal financial security and 80 percent say the U.S. system works poorly, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The survey also found 53 percent want employers to be required to provide health insurance and 37 percent support a mandate requiring all Americans to get health insurance.

'They think it is wasteful, inefficient, complex and expensive,' Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, said in a statement."

It is not health care costs that threatens anything.

It is the self-inflicted "need" for health care, primarily by the calorically irresponsible who abuse the system and the rest of us, coupled with the politics of brain dead politicians who keep voting to pay for this s**t.

Stop paying for this stuff and Voila!, in short order you will see change.

Fruit extract shows promise as weight-loss aid

More likely, "Fruit extract shows lies as weight-loss aid."

"An extract derived from a West African fruit may help overweight people shed pounds and lower their cholesterol, a new study suggests.

The extract comes from Irvingia gabonensis, also known as African mango, a fruit commonly eaten in West Africa. Lab research has shown that extracts from the plant's seed may inhibit body fat production, through effects on certain genes and enzymes that regulate metabolism.

For the current study, researchers at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon randomly assigned 102 overweight adults to take either the plant extract or a placebo twice a day for 10 weeks. The study participants did not follow any special diet and were told to maintain their normal exercise levels.

By the end of the study, the extract group had lost a significant amount of weight -- an average of roughly 28 pounds -- while the placebo group showed almost no change."

Smells worse than rotten.

1. Who supplied the pills?

"The LNNB is grateful to Gateway Health Alliances Inc. (Fairfield, California, USA) for preparing and supplying the Irvingia gabonensis extract (IGOB131)."

2. Who paid for the study?

"Part of the funds for carrying out this study was provided by Gateway Health Alliances Inc., through their 'Encouragement of Research in developing countries Initiative'."

3. Who apparently sells this stuff, directly or indirectly, in the USA?

"All test materials were supplied by Gateway Health Alliances, Inc. (Fairfield, CA, USA) in individual packets of capsules."

4. Who likely oversaw this research? It is customary for the senior person, e.g., a Department Chief in an academic setting, to be listed last in a group of authors. Here are the authors:

"Judith L Ngondi, Blanche C Etoundi, Christine B Nyangono, Carl MF Mbofung and Julius E Oben"

5. Who is the Chief Scientific Officer at Gateway Healthy Alliances, Inc.?

"Julius Oben"

6. Who is an idiot to believe the Irvingia crap?

"Look in a mirror if you do."

Here is where you can read the sh**ty article.

The Pig Is Clever Like A Fox

Oprah's participation in the weight loss debate is an Orwellian nightmare - the pig is in charge.

Well, the pig is clever like a fox.

Just in time to rollout the new version of the book she co-wrote with Bob Greene, AdipOprah, an IMHO whore-for-the-money and clear threat to people's health, devoted the cover and cover story of her O(bese), The AdipOprah magazine, to her weight woes.

In typical fatso style she basically blames her alleged mere 40-pound weight gain on her poor, defenseless, thyroid gland (again).

She is clearly spewing the slop in which she rolls.

The rollout of her “updated and revised” book together with the rollout of her personal story about why she cannot get the rolls out of her belly are an interesting coincidence.

I will bet, it was not “updated and revised” to tell people it is crap and that she and Bob are liars.

Personally, IMHO, it is nothing more than another attempt by a crooked person to rip-off money from desperate people. (According to the bovine billionaire herself, there are "more than 2.4 million" of them who read the magazine. Add to that the people who watch her TV show, listen to her radio programming, watch her TV network and visit her website and you have an awful lot of impressionable people being fooled.)

What she is talking about this 2008 holiday season is, IMHO, nothing more than another attempt at thievery. This is not new for them as Bob and Oprah, IMHO, have a history of using lies and falsified images to scam the public.

(IMHO, Oprah with Bob are every bit as crooked as Oprah is with her other boys, Mehmet and Michael, David and Jorge.)

Despite the fact that the IMHO whore-for-the-money admits that she was gaining weight beginning "in February 2007," she was too greedy to recuse herself from promoting the diet scheme concocted by her and Bob, instead averring how well it worked for her. Even to this day.

I just pulled this (12-14-08) from their diet website. The website is copyright, 2007. The hardcover edition of the book came out December 26, 2006. The paperback edition came out December 26, 2007. The "I" is fatso "O":

I lost weight in stages. First I became active, and I still work out even though I really hate it, but I know if I don’t I will end up 200 pounds again. Then I started working on my eating. I stopped eating past 7:30 at night. When Bob told me it would make a big difference in my weight, I resisted. I thought it was going to be too hard. But I was surprised to find that it wasn’t; even more surprised when it turned out to be one of the most effective changes I made.

I’ve now taken most of the bad foods out of my diet and replaced them with good. I eat smaller portions and I eat healthy foods as a way of life, not a diet to go on and off.

Liar.

And the picture used on the website to promote the diet is:

Double liar.

(Here are real images of Oprah on her/Bob's diet.

Triple liar.)

Which is the same picture (the background was changed) she and Bob used to rip people off in 2008, on their website:

Quadruple liar.

And other places on the web:



Quintuple liar.

And at a "discount":



Sextuple liar.

And they promoted her and still promote her (12-24-08) as a "success" on their diet (enlarge the image if you have to or just click on it to get to the page):

Septuple liar.

Scummy Oprah and Bob are all talk about integrity as if it means something to them. This is from the complaint to the FTC about Bob and Oprah and their false and deceptive advertising:

"As will be seen in Exhibits A, B and M, there is much made of 'truth' and 'truthfulness' by both Mr. Greene and Ms. Winfrey. Likewise, they speak of accepting responsibility for one’s actions. In fact, 'truthfulness' and 'responsibility' appear in the General Index on pages 272 and 271, respectively, in the hardcover edition.

I submit that in the FTC’s taking of its responsibility it has the opportunity to not only protect consumers from what I contend (and what I posit a reasonable consumer would contend if he/she were aware of them) are clearly false and deceptive advertising practices, but also to provide Ms. Winfrey and Mr. Greene with opportunities to accept responsibility for and the consequences of their dishonesty and untruthfulness."

You can check out the Exhibits here.

Here is their chance to stop the talk and do the walk, which, incidentally, Oprah claims is a big part of the fatso "cure":

"All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in!"

What to do?

Give back all the money they took under clearly false pretenses (plus interest earned and any damages), apologize to the world, do some jail time for being the IMHO crooks they are, shut their mouths for good (and the mouths of Oprah's other experts), stop publishing/writing on topics at which they are failures, slither off into the sunset and just go away for good.

That is integrity.

Incidentally, there is one truth among all this drivel of hers.

"All you have to do is…eat less!"

If this means fewer Calories in than out, then she is right.

And what is most important is that you do not need their sh**ty book in order to do that.

Complain to the FTC about her, Bob, Mehmet, Michael, David and Jorge, so it will get these IMHO parasites out from the broadcast media.

The sooner the better. Stop them before they harm again.

You can make a difference.

Oprah and Bob Greene Scamming The Public - Again

The headline links to the Oprahcide or Death By Oprah website.

This link will take you to the Jail For Oprah website where you will find FTC complaints filed re:

Oprah and Bob and

Oprah and her diet expert's books and

Oprah, Jorge Cruise and David Katz.

Here is a picture of Bob and an Oprah that never existed in reality:



I am clear that, IMHO, Oprah and Bob are two of the leaders in the nutritional homicide movement. There are others, like Mehmet Oz, IMHO.

But what is so grossly apparently dishonest, is the Photoshopped image of AdipOprah.

Her entry into the fitness/weight loss domain is like the book Animal Farm.

The pig is in charge.

She claims to be all about integrity, but it is clear to me that she is a dishonest person who has a profit-motivated integrity of convenience that is basically the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her Photoshop.

This is how Oprah really looks.

Big and fat and with chinny chin chins.

And big thighs and fat ass.

To see more images of AdipOprah and how she really looks following Bob's and Oprah's Best Life Diet, go:

here

here

here

here

here

here

The images above cover the period of time from around the release of their book, December 26, 2006, until just about the present.



But when you are a whore for the money, well, truth in extra-large packaging goes out the door.

However, "Sale Pricing" does not.

Here is a new "deal" Bob and The Killer Queen of Daytime TV are offering.



One look at the real Oprah - same faked image.

One look at the real Oprah - same doomed to fail advice.

One look at the real Oprah - same guaranteed to make you poorer and them richer scam.

This is how The Best Life Diet is described at amazon.com:

"From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step."

Just like he did for Oprah! (see images and image links above, in case you have forgotten how good Bob is and/or how fat Oprah is)

Shame on her.

She should be ashamed but I suspect she is not.

If she ever had an ounce of shame, it has likely been replaced by pounds of fat.

In Oprah's own words:

"Excerpt from The Best Life Diet (sic) - by Oprah Winfrey

You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth. Every unwanted pound creates another layer of lies."

Right.

And Oprah is the multi-layered liar.

Laughing all the way to the bank with your money.

To find out more about what I believe is going on, read the FTC complaint filed regarding her and Bob. It is available here.