Oprah if one goes to her website has a loophole and disclaimer under the contact/submit form- it states that Oprah can and will not pay for a story or words submitted to Harpo- it also states the information and dates of the words and submission can be changed, with out discussion. You submit to her and ABC you then lose the right to your experience, the experience, idea, plan, product is no longer kept confidential- the disclaimer states it can be shared and sold, without a right given to its author. And you wierd, old pathetic celebrity leeches out there watching T.V. and reading online. Her entourage of celebrity wealth, protects her-,actually she claims its an "aura"- when actually its business connections and Hollywood power players....health food and a really expensive clean lifestyle which she can afford.
And lets cite a quick example here- if Oprah were a mayor (MAYOR), and worked for the government- and the public wrote to her office, and under the contact form of her government offices submit contact form it stated, as it does under Oprah's contact form online right now as of this writing July 10, 2009, that Mayor Winfrey retains the right to your words, can sell them to companies, change your information and dates of submission- would the public trust her?
She'd be in prison. Spell that P-R-I-S-O-N. Prison.
Oprah is not a healer of the sick- she tries to ail others and profits from their well being. If Miss Winfry, truly cared for the ill- she would not persecute criminals- which who by her standards are truly the ill of the world. Never does she help criminals besides herself. People who molest others, or killers, rapists, homeboys turned to crime all are to be punished- their personal stories and history also are portrayed in a negaive light- and she goes on witch hunts for individuals she wants to use as an example,..all the while using a liberal consumer- their compassionate weakness and pyschology to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Money talks and so does Oprah- but Oprah speaks she is speaking for others- only one catch she takes money which could have gone to the originator and person with the experience whose words are no longer theirs.
I have an inbox full- just full of spam mail from Oprah's show which is sent to my account because she sold my information and so do millions of people. Oprah works in publishing, her staff's writers also work in the media.
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Why medical experts were shocked by Oprah Winfrey's take on hormone replacement and Suzanne Somers's controversial theories on aging.
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When Dr. Lauren Streicher, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's medical school in Chicago, got a call from "The Oprah Winfrey Show" inviting her to discuss menopausal hormones with actress Suzanne Somers, she figured she'd better read Somers's best-selling books on the subject. As Streicher worked her way through the first chapter, she started underlining every sentence she felt was inaccurate. "But pretty soon, I had to stop," Streicher says, "because I was underlining almost everything."The taping of the show, which aired Jan. 29, proved equally disconcerting. Somers, a self-styled hormone and anti-aging expert whose controversial books promise midlife women that they will feel young and sexy if they take unregulated hormone therapy (HT) in much higher doses and for much longer time periods than most experts recommend, was literally given center stage. She was seated next to Winfrey, the newly proclaimed convert to the so-called bio-identical hormones promoted by the 62-year-old Somers. (Bio-identical generally refers to products that are chemically identical to hormones produced by a woman's body.) While Winfrey, 55, encouraged "every woman" to read Somers's book, the guests with actual medical degrees were relegated to seats in the audience, where they had to sit quietly unless called upon. Interspersed were taped segments of Somers smearing her arms with hormone cream, standing on her head and lining up the 40 dietary supplements she takes with her morning smoothie. The whole setup seemed to give the drugs that Somers uses the same enthusiastic endorsement that turns everything Winfrey promotes into a blockbuster. (Article continued below...)
The resulting spectacle disappointed many doctors who thought Winfrey had higher standards for the quality of medical information she dispersed—or, at least, more of a commitment to balance. Some said they were particularly upset because doctors had complained to Winfrey's production company about what they saw as misinformation disseminated during the show she did on hormone therapy two weeks before that featured Dr. Phil McGraw's wife, Robin.
Some experts are far more than disappointed: "I found the program to be quite shocking, and full of audacious claims, not substantiated by evidence," says Dr. Wulf Utian, a gynecologist and consultant at the Cleveland Clinic and founder of the North American Menopause Society, who has also worked as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry. "Oprah is the most influential woman in the world, and I don't think she comprehends the amount of damage she has done to women's health. I came away feeling like Oprah really didn't understand the issue. Personally, I feel like she has set us back 100 years."
Somers puts partial blame for the hailstorm of criticism she gets from doctors on the fact that some medical experts, like Utian, have connections to the pharmaceutical industry. While many bio-identicals are produced by drug companies (which has become a highly profitable business for pharmacies and those who prescribe the hormones) and regulated by the FDA, the ones that Somers promotes are made in compounding pharmacies that are not required to be tested for quality or safety. Many other doctors, Somers says, simply don't understand bio-identical hormones as well as she does, because they "don't learn about them in medical school" or go to the alternative-medicine conferences she attends.
But it's not just clinicians who take issue with her recommendations that women follow a long-term high-dose hormone-replacement regime; the bulk of scientific research on the subject suggests that prolonged use of these hormones is associated with an increased risk of serious health conditions including cancer and heart disease.
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