Did anyone catch today's season opener?
The Green Coffee Bean Extract? Really? People at whatever they wanted, and the placebo group lost 40 pounds in two weeks. The women who got the extract 3x a day, ate whatever they wanted and lost 81.5 pounds?
give me a break.
That's what he said?
The show has gotten more boring lately since it's tough to do a medical show every day!
Not only did he say it, he implied that it was the newest miracle weight loss drug. He gave people instructions on what to look for on the label, "Accept no imitiations" basically, and then in the next breath said, "The real stuff costs about 1.00 a day -- so if that's too expensive for you, the next best thing is to keep a daily food diary, and that's free."
He might be a brilliant surgeon, but he's a snake oil salesman on television.
Wouldn't go that far but it's hard to do a medical show every day so he has stupid topics and sometimes pushes stupid products.
shareActually, if he had producers who really understood medicine (megafauna, i'm inclined to agree w/ you but... ;-) it wouldn't be that hard. First, reduce the show to half an hour. If they don't want to do that, then how about spending a good segment of the show following up on all the people he's put on diets? Remember, how early in the show's history he had lots of people in the "truth tube" and revealing their weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and having them change their lifestyle? Where are they now?
As for the medical component of the show, he tends to talk down to the audience (someone on this board said it better than I, about how it's all staged?) anway, he ought to spend more time on presenting the medical problem and explaining it. Those animations (you can get them to do anything, really) can be replaced w/ real x rays or slides or CT scans, etc.
I'm just twisted that he's a combination of simplistic AND pedantic, and together, it's low rent tv.