The Failure Empire: Bob Greene Rakes It In, Oprah Fails

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The scene is comic: Bob Greene sitting next to Oprah on her TV show,

kicking off the New Year, as Oprah tries to explain to her viewing

audience why she gained forty pounds – again. Not once did she turn

to Greene and say, “Bob, I guess your program is just a bit too hard

to follow, something must be wrong with it.”

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The issue of dopamine and pleasure is very problematic for dietician-

minded “experts” like Bob Greene. The information means that you

have to have some saturated fat in your diet while you are losing

weight, much more than a dietician or Bob Greene ever recommends, or

the next time you are under high stress and your adrenals start

crashing you will eat a bowl of ice cream, a bag of potato chips or

corn chips (like Oprah), or you will be off to Mcs or your

other favorite junk food stop – so that you can get a pleasure fix to

stop the acute trauma in your brain.

Diets that lack saturated fat set you up for this problem – as well

as forcing you to overeat carbohydrates in an attempt to satisfy the

lack of dopamine-related pleasure resulting from the lack of

saturated fat in your diet. In other words, you may be able to stay

with a low saturated fat diet as long as you don’t get too stressed.

As soon as stress levels get too high, you must have salt and fat to

calm your brain down. This relieves the feeling of stress in the

short term, but it is a disaster to your weight-loss efforts. The

combination of adequate saturated fat with increased soluble fiber

will make you much more resistant to stress-induced binges...

Carolyn

Madison, WI