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 Oprah Winfrey: Responds to report on medical advice
Oprah Winfrey is speaking out about latest cover story of famous news magazine that claims that she abuses her influence and credibility by promoting health "cures" that are ineffective and dangerous.
There are many celebrity guests of Winfrey show who have offered questionable medical advice. For instance Suzanne Somers told Winfrey that she swallowed 60 supplements every day and takes a variety of bioidentical hormones to fight aging. Also according to physician/author Christiane Northrup, "in many women, thyroid dysfunction develops because of an energy blockage in the throat region, the result of a lifetime of 'swallowing' words one is aching to say."
Winfrey insisted that she has been only trying to open dialogue between her viewers and their doctors.
In a statement Winfrey said, "For 23 years, my show has presented thousands of topics that reflect the human experience, including doctors' medical advice and personal health stories that have prompted conversations between our audience members and their health care providers," "I trust the viewers, and I know that they are smart and discerning enough to seek out medical opinions to determine what may be best for them."
Some of Winfrey viewers said that they have had a hard time not taking the daytime diva's information to heart.
Living Oprah, a blogger who spent an entire year following "the advice of Oprah Winfrey," added that she "had mixed results from the health guidance I learned on Oprah's show and there were a couple items that conflicted with my own doctor's guidance. My doc always shrugged at how many supplements I knocked back in 2008, for instance."
Biologist PZ Myers, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, also wrote in blog, "It's about time one of the big media players pointed out that she is promoting dangerous fake therapies ... all with a happy smile, of course, and a message of positive self-esteem for women. It's still credulous glop, though."
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