Comments on: Is Oprah Winfrey Finally Coming Around To Low-Carb?

By: Tony K

Tony K — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:07:57 +0000

Hi Jimmy, I hope for her sake she comes around to low carb. I wrote an open letter to her on my blog and on her website as well.

Here’s hoping.

Tony

By: pennelope

pennelope — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:33:08 +0000

According to your article she named your website the best overall – or did I get that wrong? Obviously I don’t tell people what they want to hear.
You put down her show and ideas while all the while saying that she puts down the diet ideas you proclaim.

I just have followed your website and blog for the last couple of years and have always admired you and what you stood for – although never posted anything until now. I was just shocked at some things you and other said because your community always seems so caring and supportive of everyone. Sorry if I offended.

No offense taken. Oprah’s magazine named the low-carb diet the best of all the diets by looking through the various research that has come out in recent years. I didn’t “put down her show,” but merely commented on the people who watch it regularly. What was wrong with my observation?

THANK YOU for posting and reading at my blog, Pennelope. I appreciate your support of the work I am doing. My job at my blog is to educate, encourage, and inspire while occasionally stirring the pot for genuine discussions on important topics. I’ve done this since I began my blog in April 2005 and will continue to instigate debate and discussion of what matters most. That’s the way to true learning and paradigm shifts in thinking.

–Jimmy

By: pennelope

pennelope — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:24:09 +0000

After the rather mean things you mentioned about Oprah, I would be surprised if she would do a show, she handed you a compliment and you were not nice at all. I am surprised, I thought you looked for good in all people and you were a nicer person than that.

THANKS Pennelope! What did I say about Oprah that wasn’t the truth? And what compliment did she pay to me? I do look for good in people, but I also love them enough to share the truth. Telling someone what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear is just about the worst thing you could do.

–Jimmy

By: Tony M

Tony M — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:53:29 +0000

Not to compeltely derail your topic here, but if it was all about money, she has a considerable vested interest in the low-fat dogma. Her willingness to question it is at least very interesting.

That actually ADDS to the topic, Tony. Does making you wonder what he MO of this is.

–Jimmy

By: Tom Bunnell

Tom Bunnell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:03:58 +0000

Incidentally, there is no greater truth than what carbohydrates and sugar have done and are doing to society! — The global ramifications are immeasurable!

By: Tony M

Tony M — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:42:57 +0000

“She’s popular with a lot of impressionable women.”

Why the slight? She’s popular with a lot of not-so-impressionable women, too, and many men. I have enormous respect for Oprah, even if I don’t always agree with her. She takes many things seriously that would otherwise be ignored, from women’s and family issues to much broader concerns. For example, how many other talk show hosts have promoted literature as much as she has, dedicated shows to works by writers like Toni Morrison?

Like some many other people in the media, she is a mixture of good and bad – but some people only want to focus on the things that rub them the wrong way. If she is rethinking diet and weight loss after admitting her weight has ballooned despite (because of) the advice given her by leading low fat proponents, that takes some courage and can do a world of good.

Fair enough! But I think on the issue of weight loss, she’s milked that cow for her own money and power influence rather than her own personal weight and health. Maybe that’s changing.

–Jimmy