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Opinion: What Oprah gets right about diet culture

American Studies

By | Adrienne Rose Bitar , CNN

Some Americans felt betrayed when Oprah Winfrey recently revealed that she had taken weight-loss medication, writes , lecturer in the American Studies Program, .

鈥淗ow could she, the queen of WeightWatchers and doyenne of dieting, be abandoning the equation of diet + exercise = slim?鈥 . 鈥淢aybe because Oprah is conceding an uncomfortable truth: Diets rarely work. It doesn鈥檛 matter how much grit or willpower you have or how hard you鈥檙e willing to work, the weight comes back; it nearly always does.鈥

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