Oprah Winfrey returned to ABC Monday night to host an hour-long special on “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.” What aired was a 60-minute infomercial for Big Pharma’s lucrative injections to capitalize on the latest weight-loss craze.
“I wanted to do this special for the more than one hundred million people in the United States and the over one billion people around the world who are living with obesity,” Winfrey opened the program. “I come to this conversation in the hope that we can start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment, to stop shaming other people for being overweight or how they choose to lose or not lose weight.”
What ensued was a corporate-sponsored program obviously designed to glorify the medical establishment’s new Type 2 diabetes medications being used off-label to induce weight loss. Winfrey’s first guest was a suburban mother named Amy Kane on the outskirts of Chicago who lost 160 pounds on one such drug — Mounjaro — following a debilitating food addiction developed to cope with the stress of Covid lockdowns.
“I just turned to food, I didn’t care, I was at my highest weight, it was about 300 pounds, and then the inevitable happened: I was diagnosed with diabetes,” said Kane. “My labs and blood work were scary.”
After Kane lost more than half her weight on Mounjaro, she shed “tears of joy” on Winfrey’s program, talking about her labs and blood now in “complete, normal range.”
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