MUCH OF DR. OZ ADVICE QUESTIONABLE ACCORDING TO STUDY.

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Getting your health advice off of television shows can be a hazard to your health. According to the British Medical Journal, who recently published a study analyzing Dr. Oz's claims along with those made on another medical talk show. What they found was startling.
Dr. Oz is called "America's Doctor", and syndicated talk show host Mehmet Oz  says he speaks in a way anyone can understand. Dr. Oz shouts to his millions of viewers about "miracles" and "revolutionary medical breakthroughs", which more than not are very questionable and may be totally false.

Has Dr.Oz , who frequently peddles miracle cures for weight loss and other medical ailments, threw medical truths and veracity under the bus and traded  them in for television ratings and crass entertainment value?

Is there smoke to the accussioins or is there a hint of fire surrounding his medical circus. He was recently called before Congress, where Senator Claire McCaskill, D-MO told him to his face that he was giving people false hope and blasted him for his television segments as a : "recipe for disaster."

Example of his advice: Last month , a study he touted, promoted and praised  about a coffee bean weight-loss pill was RETRACTED  dispite Dr. Oz's assertions that the weigh-loss pills could "burn fat fast for everyone who wants to lose weight."

The claims made by Dr. Oz was closely looked at by the researchers led by  Christina Korownyk of the University of Alberta and she and her team concluded that medical research didn't substantiate Dr. Oz's claims ... or outright contradicted ... more than HALF of Dr. Oz's recommendations.

Personally I believe these  goofy medical talk shows are dangerous. They clearly lack specific and adequate information and/or the magnitude of how their advice will affect the viewer who tries  the medical cures. I suggest that the television viewer take all of this television medical advice with a grain of salt,-- be suspicious, be skeptical.

Currently the "Dr. Oz Show" ranks in the top five talk shows in the U.S. and has an estimated  2.9 million viewers and another medical talk show "The Doctors", which was also studied in the report paper reports viewership at  2.3  million a day.

It appears Dr. Oz and others medical television shows only look at medical ailments as how they can market it for themselves. In fact, Oz told the New Yorker: "Cancer is our Angelina Jolie. We could sell that show every day." A  published article implied that Dr. Oz has to  get real. The article titled "Reality Check" said "There Is No Such Thing As A  Miracle Food ." The journal of Nutrition and Cancer slammed Dr. Oz's assertions that endive,, red onion and sea bass can decrease the likelihood of ovarian cancer by, get this -- a whopping  SEVENTY-FIVE (75%) PERCENT.

Folks, look at these medical shows like "Dr. Oz" as entertainment. Oz comes across as nothing more that a performer, an entertainer. An example: He said data  shouldn't stop patients from testing out things like raspberry ketone ...a " miracle in a bottle to burn your fat" ... EVEN IF IT'S NEVER BEEN TESTED. Really? Wow!

Oz told a U.S. Senate hearing he"personally believes in the items I talk about in my shows." " I give my audience the advice I give my family all the time." Is that scary or not, folks? Why, because the researchers with the British Medical Journal selected at least 40 episodes from past year, and examined 479 separate medical recommendations Oz made. The result was that the researchers found evidence enough only to support 46 percent of Oz's recommendations, contradicted 15 percent and wasn't available for 39 percent regarding Oz's recommendations So Basically the British Medical Journal research. "discredits" more than half the claims made by Dr. Mehmet Oz on his talk show.

Bottom line people - - these television doctors are only there for entertainment value and many can come up with some far out crazy ideas. They are marketing their brand folks and that's their end game. -- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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