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"Years ago, oprah popularized the idea of keeping a gratitude journal. She encouraged people to write down five things they love each day. She claimed that this simple exercise would change your entire outlook on life. Surveying the new science that has emerged from positive psychology, I'd say oprah was pretty much on target. Scientists have randomly assigned people to regularly record things that made them feel grateful. Others received different journaling assignments, or no assignment at all." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"More calls came in after another episode of The oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah's guest was Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon at New York—Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan, who stood in front of a giant image of his host's heart and explained how the scan worked and why it was a good idea to get one. Meanwhile, the scientific evidence about the value of heart CT scans is inconclusive; some researchers believe that a small subset of patients with acute chest pain, who cannot be diagnosed by usual methods, will be helped by getting a cardiac CT scan." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"No fewer than three times did oprah, a persistent interviewer, ask me to clarify how AD isn't merely a form of senility. Senility, I said, is an imprecise lay word, whereas Alzheimer's disease has a clear medical definition that classifies a biological pathology: It is a neurodegenerative disease that causes neuronal loss and atrophy. Looking back on that interview, I am impressed at Oprah's prescient observations about the social construction of AD. At the time, I assumed she was unfamiliar with the latest thinking about dementia. In hindsight, she was a step ahead of me." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Before long, Spiegel and some of his patients had accepted an invitation to appear on the television talk show oprah, and a few years later his group therapy was profiled in the Public Broadcasting Service's 1993 blockbuster documentary Healing and the Mind. There on television, before millions of viewers, journalist Bill Moyers asked Spiegel, "If the findings of your study are replicated, what do you think it means for medicine?" Spiegel responded forcefully: [W]hat it means is that we have to change the definition of what health care is. . . ." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Oz is the health expert on The oprah Winfrey Show. He is chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications and has hosted several shows including Second Opinion with Dr. Oz and Life Line. His "Transplant!" series on Discovery Health Channel won both a FREDDIE and a Silver TELLY award in September 2006. In addition to numerous appearances on network morning and evening news programs. Dr. Oz has written three New York Times bestsellers: You: The Owner's Manual, You: The Smart Patient, and You: On a Diet, as well as the award-winning Healing from the Heart." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"In fact, I remember sitting on the stage of oprah Winfrey's show in the mid-1980s to share important developments in my Alzheimer's research at Johns Hopkins University. I told a national television audience what I now consider to be the standard story of AD. The show's producers had recruited me as an expert on Alzheimer's, and I was asked to interview several individuals whose lives had been affected by the disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Perhaps oprah was asking me to get beyond the hype of the disease myth and contemplate what two decades later has become the central question surrounding AD: Should biomedical disease labels with frightening cultural meanings be used to describe a condition that might otherwise be considered variable human brain aging? accepting the limits of science Science has collected much data on the brain and frequent claims are made for dramatic leaps in understanding how the brain processes information." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Okay, you head-shakers, if all this just seems too fantastic to believe, let me ask you why you have no trouble accepting the fact that you can watch oprah on your cellphone, thanks to invisible electrical impulses from outer space that communicate with cell towers to activate tiny computer programs in your handheld appliance. An invisible but equally powerful, comparable process also happens in our bodies. Why do you think that after two months female dorm mates find their menstrual periods have synchronized?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Lyman appeared on oprah Winfrey's TV show in April 1996 as part of a panel discussion on food safety. When Lyman described the practice of feeding cows to cows, oprah expressed revulsion and stated, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" The day after the show aired, the beef futures market plummeted. Industry analysts referred to this as the "Oprah crash." oprah invited industry representatives to debate Lyman on her show, which they declined, but she gave them ten minutes anyway to make their case." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"What I really wanted to do on the cold Boston winter day that the support group met, was to sit home and watch "Oprah" while drinking some Starbucks coffee.66 For Spiegel himself, all these developments meant something different: that he was suddenly forced to keep company with alternative practitioners whose approaches he had spent years reviling. He found it an uncomfortable experience, and went on to write his own self-help book designed to correct the excesses of theirs. This move led one reviewer to grumble that "Spiegel is too dismissive of some workers in the field . . ." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Remember when Tom Cruise had a meltdown and started jumping on Oprah's couch and when he shouted at Matt Lauer that he didn't know anything about psychiatric drugs? In the aftermath of those episodes, an anchorwoman from the television show Dateline asked me to provide a psychiatric perspective on Cruise's comments. The show never aired (it got bumped by the Iraq War), but the conversation I had with the anchor-woman as I sat perched on a high stool waiting for the cameraman to get set up was memorable." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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"How did it go from nothing—or, rather, worse than nothing: unspeakable treatment in asylums—to oprah, morning talk shows, and Wall Street? Many factors of course have contributed, but the key to all of them has been the direct effect of the filtering into public consciousness, in simplistic and often misunderstood form, of the effects of a revolution that has taken place in academic psychiatry in the last twenty years— the ascendancy and now complete dominance of biological psychiatry, or neuropsychiatry, in universities across the country." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The favored confessional platform is The oprah Winfrey Show, where celebrities like Colvin and Linda Hamilton, the tough female action star of The Terminator movies, divulge their inner torments on shows called "Depressed, Mentally 111, and Famous." Even sports figures have proclaimed their biochemical deficiencies: Ricky Williams, formerly the NFL's leading rusher, and Terry Bradshaw, four-time Super Bowl champion, paired up to do ads for Paxil. (Williams claims that Paxil cured his anxiety, and Bradshaw his depression.) Julie Krone, Hall of Fame jockey, has endorsed Zoloft." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Testosterone cream applied to the genital region has received mass media attention on "The oprah Winfrey Show." It is used as an alternate method of delivering the testosterone. Common prescriptions are anywhere from 1 to 4 mg per gram of cream. These are applied to the external genital region right before sexual activity to enhance sensation to touch and orgasm. Use should not exceed twice per week to avert local testosterone side effects such as enlargement of the clitoris that can occur if testosterone cream is used daily and in the stronger dosages." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Bush, President Bill Clinton, and oprah Winfrey. B SIGN OF THE TIMES Left-handed people used to be considered evil. Indeed, the word sinister is derived from the Latin sinistra, which means "left." In more recent times, lefties were sometimes even accused of being "leftists,"that is, communists. to have better memories than righties, as well as an advantage in hand-to-hand combat. And according to a French study, they tend to excel at such sports as baseball, tennis, and fencing." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Hazelnuts Go Hollywood Hazelnuts got a nice public relations boost when they were discussed recently on oprah. The wonderful Dr. Mehmet Oz, an oprah regular and one of the best doctors in the country, told a national TV audience that hazelnuts are a source of omega-3 fatty acids during a show segment called "Inside Secrets to Make You Younger and Healthier." Now maybe they'll get invited to those Hollywood parties. Macadam in IVnts Because he died before I even began writing this book, I didn't get a chance to ask Dr. Atkins to submit a list of his top ten favorite healthy foods." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"More calls came in after another episode of The oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah's guest was Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon at New York—Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan, who stood in front of a giant image of his host's heart and explained how the scan worked and why it was a good idea to get one. Meanwhile, the scientific evidence about the value of heart CT scans is inconclusive; some researchers believe that a small subset of patients with acute chest pain, who cannot be diagnosed by usual methods, will be helped by getting a cardiac CT scan." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"When Lyman described the practice of feeding cows to cows, oprah expressed revulsion and stated, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" The day after the show aired, the beef futures market plummeted. Industry analysts referred to this as the "Oprah crash." oprah invited industry representatives to debate Lyman on her show, which they declined, but she gave them ten minutes anyway to make their case. Subsequently a group of Texas cattlemen filed a suit against oprah and Lyman under Texas's False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Surveying the new science that has emerged from positive psychology, I'd say oprah was pretty much on target. Scientists have randomly assigned people to regularly record things that made them feel grateful. Others received different journaling assignments, or no assignment at all. Study participants who regularly drew their attention to aspects of their lives that made them feel blessed increased their positivity.15 Some caveats emerged, however, such as that it may be better to count your blessings only a few days out of the week than every day." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"More calls came in after another episode of The oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah's guest was Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon at New York—Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan, who stood in front of a giant image of his host's heart and explained how the scan worked and why it was a good idea to get one. Meanwhile, the scientific evidence about the value of heart CT scans is inconclusive; some researchers believe that a small subset of patients with acute chest pain, who cannot be diagnosed by usual methods, will be helped by getting a cardiac CT scan." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Demand for their services was fueled in part by testimonials from celebrities like oprah Winfrey, who actually underwent a whole-body scan on television. At one time, scan shops on the West Coast, like Health View, in Newport Beach, the most popular center in the Los Angeles area, had ten-month waiting lists. Other entrepreneurial doctors load CT scanners into mobile units and send them on the road with a technologist." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The last time was 1987, on The oprah Winfrey Show, when I debated Paul Fink, then the elected president of the American Psychiatric Association, on the merits of psychiatric drugs. He vociferously attacked me, claiming that I misrepresented the facts when I cited the high rates of serious adverse effects from antipsychotic drugs. But I had been quoting from a thoroughly documented American Psychiatric Association report on the subject, which I promptly retrieved from beneath my seat and read aloud to the audience of millions." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"No published clinical trials substantiate these claims, but oprah loves it. Having generated over 200 million dollars in 2005, XanGo is predicting annual sales of 1 billion dollars by 2009. Supplements sold through multilevel marketing generate over 4.2 billion dollars annually. The miracle-juice industry is clustered alongside the 1-15 in a part of Utah known as Cellulose Valley. Pushing faith is a long-standing Mormon tradition, with generations of door-to-door elders spreading the evangelical message. But there's another reason Utah is the nucleus for these unproven natural remedies." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In a March 2007 article in O, TJie oprah Magazine, writer Jenny Bailly warned of "pain, scabs and bruises" that could result from non-surgical anti-aging procedures and cosmeceutical products, but misrepresented hydroxy acids as just "liftfing] away dead cells on the surface of skin, revealing fresher smoother skin underneath" (18). It's a common misperception." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Oprah's guest was Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon at New York—Presbyterian Hospital, in Manhattan, who stood in front of a giant image of his host's heart and explained how the scan worked and why it was a good idea to get one. Meanwhile, the scientific evidence about the value of heart CT scans is inconclusive; some researchers believe that a small subset of patients with acute chest pain, who cannot be diagnosed by usual methods, will be helped by getting a cardiac CT scan." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Food companies and farmers can protect themselves Whether the tipping point is achieved through a new scientific finding, a national education campaign, a religious leader, legislation, or even a well-received segment on oprah Winfrey, there is an excellent chance that US food manufacturers will abandon GM foods in the near future. Several have already taken steps to protect themselves by avoiding GM ingredients. Still, farmers and food manufacturers may need to do more than just avoid GMOs in their own operations to protect themselves." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Cattlemen versus oprah Winfrey The McLibel trial established a precedent for dealing aggressively with critics. Rather than picking on a David, the next such trial pitted Texas cattlemen against a media-star Goliath; the celebrated television personality oprah Winfrey. As one commentator explained, "You would have to live under a rock in a particularly desolate stretch of the Sahara to not know who oprah Winfrey is. The talk show she started in 1985 ... is seen by 22 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast in 119 countries." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"This protectionist law in Texas was the basis for an unsuccessful lawsuit against oprah Winfrey for millions of dollars for her reaction to certain unhealthful beef-industry practices. What They Say Frivolous obesity lawsuits could overburden the courts and ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars in court-related expenses. What They Don't Say Food-industry lawyers are prolific litigators when it suits them." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

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