Dr. Oz: The 14 Day YOU Diet (VIDEO)

Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen are teaming up to fight the good fight against weight gain in 2010. The two revealed their expert dieting tips on today's "Good Morning America," including their 14-day YOU diet aimed at eating right and getting rid of bad habits.

For more information on the 14-day diet, check out ABC News.

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[Sean Kenniff]

12:05 PM on 01/12/2010

We all know fatty foods and high sugar treats might be addictive. But there is a new scientific theory that diets themselves may be addictive, and a "Diet Addiction" may be making you fatter.
There is really compelling evidence that deprivation rewires the brain, and changes brain chemistry, triggering overeating, bingeing, and making diet failure more likely. THEN it makes you diet again, despite the irrationality of it.
Weird, but interesting stuff. Healthapalooza.com has a Special Report on "DIET ADDICTION"
Link below.
http://www.healthapalooza.com

[thesuburbanlife]

11:37 AM on 01/06/2010

If I have learned anything from a lifetime of excessive eating habits it's that change doesn't come overnight. You have to truly hit rock bottom (like any addict) to see that the only direction you can go in is up. You have to be so tired of your current situation that there is no alternative but to change it. Until then? It's all a bunch of noise. I will say that I wholly admire Dr. Oz and Dr. Rozien for crusading to help change America's epidemic. Education is a very important step in the process.
Mindy
www.thesuburbanlife.com

[singermuse]

11:38 AM on 01/05/2010

For a country that focuses so much on dieting, there are an awful lot of overweight people here. Diets don't work, they never did, never well. Diets are a guarantee of failure. Eating abundantly and healthfully, and exercising daily, will normalize a person's weight if they stick with it. It also doesn't hurt to stop eating things that only LOOK and TASTE like "food" but are really just junk. There are no "bad" foods, only the right foods for a person's individual needs. Some people can't tolerate grains and dairy, some can. Some prefer a vegetarian/vegan way of eating, some include animal foods. What works for one may not work for another. But always, REAL food will be better than pre-packaged fake foods full of additives to make a person addicted to them like excess salt, msg, hfcs, food colorings, unpronounceable chemicals, etc..
Get rid of the junk and you get rid of the addiction and eventually the obesity.

[Karen Jensen Miller]

11:32 AM on 01/05/2010

There is a preponderance of evidence that a plant-based diet is the healthiest diet on the planet, and it's not so difficult to adopt - it's just different. Dr. Oz, be a hero - do your homework, consult with Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, then talk about a truly healthy, disease preventing diet that even cures heart disease and diabetes.

[empress of green]

11:37 AM on 01/05/2010

YES Dr. Neal Barnard from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in DC

[Cheapthrills]

08:52 AM on 01/05/2010

This "diet" mentality sets a person up for failure because is is perceived as short-term and deprivation of a food pleasures. One would want to have a long-term lifestyle change in their eating habits and change their thinking to that paradigm.

[nisha]

07:19 AM on 01/05/2010

Michael Pollan is great! Male doctors seem to concoct idealized eating plans that depend on people cooking for them. The doctor who really has it figured out and can show you how to make lasting changes in eating habits realistically, and in a brain and body friendly manner as well, is Stanford physician Kelly Traver, MD, whose book, The Program, was published recently (http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Kelly-Traver-M-D/60002232).
She also has a website (https://www.mdhealthevolution.com/user/program/review/week/4) where you can journal your own process of acquiring new habits and become educated on related topics by watching videos and responding to interactive programming as you learn adopt different practices. In light of what Dr. Traver says about brain chemistry and changing habits, Dr. Oz is quite wrong about accomplishing anything of lasting value in two weeks.

[mlaiuppa]

02:12 AM on 01/05/2010

Try Michael Pollan's Food rules instead. (Huffpost green section) Simpler, easier and pretty much the same. Only more....palatable.

Got news for you Dr. Roizen ..... check the label on that bread. Just because it says 100% whole wheat doesn't mean it doesn't have high fructose corn syrup in it.

You want quality food? Make it yourself. Buy a bread machine.

A lot of what these Doctors are suggesting as substitutes still aren't that good for you.

Food Rules: an eater's manual. A lot shorter and more entertaining than that big book they're hawking.

[Conk]

10:45 AM on 01/05/2010

The Food Rules say you can eat fried foods if you make them at home. What BS!