Oprah Blames Weight Gain on Organic, Multigrain Blue Chips
Oprah gained 40 pounds, and one of her vices was blue corn chips. Hain-Celestial, the makers of the chips Oprah held up in the episode, gently encouraged her to stick to a single serving. On the same note, the Times warns that foods with a "health halo" can be evil.
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Organic does not mean zero calories. The calorie count is probably the same as Doritos.
eatorama at 4:50PM on 01/12/09
you'e right, eatorama, food is food. if you eat too much of anything, you'll pack on the pounds.
Am I the only one who's tired of reading and hearing about Oprah's battle of the bulge?
www.EatCheapEatWellEatUp.com
AlisonEats at 5:17PM on 01/12/09
I'm very tired of hearing about this "health halo." We've simply got to teach people about food and nutrition and then they have to take some personal responsibility. They're chips.
It's like people with the 100 calories packs of stuff "oh, they're small, I'll have 4." "I don't understand why I'm not losing weight, I'm eating 100 calorie packs."
Or, in this case "I don't understand why I'm gaining weight, it's organic." Good golly.
ccbweb at 5:42PM on 01/12/09
I'm tired of hearing anything about Oprah. Yeah Oprah, it's the chip's fault.
aharste at 5:46PM on 01/12/09
I'm all on board with the above comments.
They're chips for frick sakes...
...you'd think that someone with her education and a personal trainer/dietitian would know this BY NOW!
hungrychristel at 5:47PM on 01/12/09
I came back around to this one because now I'm annoyed on behalf of the company. They're making a totally reasonable product (with, by the way, a nutritional profile almost identical to Restaurant Style Tostitos chips) but she decides to make them some horrible weight gaining monstrosity.
The geeky comic book line: "with great power comes great responsibility." She ought to know better. She could use her plight to help people learn lessons (ie, talk about how organics may be better in some ways but don't have fewer calories or less fat and so on) without singling out a particular product that has nothing wrong with it.
I hope this is the end of it and I move on. I'm annoyed that I'm so annoyed.
ccbweb at 6:04PM on 01/12/09
I don't think that Oprah said what's being spun.
The quote even says it: 'My drug of choice used to be potato chips," she said. "Now this year, it was organic, multigrain blue chips -- but a bag of them. So you eat a bag of those a day and see what happens if you're not working out."
It wasn't the chips, it was overeating and not exercising.
Case closed. Stop. Move along.
cybele at 10:18PM on 01/12/09
She didn't gain the weight because she ate too much of this product, she gained weight because she ate too much. Period.
What annoys me is that she'll get back with the personal trainer and when she's down to a normal weight there will be a big "reveal" where she'll be featured on magazine covers, showing how much weight she lost.
Big deal. Anyone who has a personal trainer glued to them can lose weight. If she loses it and keeps it off, that's what ought to be important. But yeah, that's not news.
dbcurrie at 10:34PM on 01/12/09
I'm guessing Oprah doesn't know how to eat things in moderation?
omarac at 12:18AM on 01/13/09
Hain Blue Chips are the least of (or a diversion from) a bigger problem with food.
They can't be the only thing she overindulged in during her recent weight gain.
soozm32 at 12:54AM on 01/13/09
OK people there are more serious things happening in the world then Oprah's weight gain...! And yes, "organic", "low fat", "zero fat", "sugar free", whatever the label reads... what counts at the end is eating in MODERATION and a minimum amount of exercise.
MariannaF at 3:09AM on 01/13/09
My .. aren't we all a bit harsh. Losing weight is not easy. Anyone who does it should be given due credit.
Or, are all of you previous posters absolutely perfect?
KuyasKitchen at 7:27AM on 01/13/09
haha... actually, i blame weight gain on, 1) laziness, 2) the ability, or inability to stop putting things in your mouth...
agree, yeah, it's the chip's fault. i guess bob greene didn't do a good enough job getting her on the treadmill.
suburbangourmet at 11:57AM on 01/13/09
Way to go Oprah, lead more Americans lack of responsibility for their own actions. We don't have enough of that already or anything.
angrywayne at 3:35PM on 01/13/09