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Are You Being Duped into Buying Counterfeit Beauty Products? | Dr. Oz | S9 | Ep 13 | Full Episode
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Black market beauty products.
They can be making you sick.
They found things like horse urine in the product.
What you need to know to protect yourself and real housewife, Teresa Judice, on divorce rumors.
What are you going to tell Joe when he comes home?
Plus, the 10 most popular diets in the world.
I lost 19 pounds, 22 pounds, 45 pounds.
Which diet works best?
It is the Great Diet Showdown.
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Are you ready to say some lies today?
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Bye.
I love you, DuckDog.
Today we're covering a health scam that has both doctors and law enforcement taking action.
In one of our show's biggest investigations, we exposed the underground world of counterfeit health and beauty products.
And what we found was alarming.
We're going to pull out one of the items, which is clearly a high-end perfume.
Remember, this box came from China, but yet the labeling indicates that it was made in France.
I was outraged at how easy it is for scammers to dupe you into buying fraudulent products.
And we didn't realize we had just scratched the surface of a much bigger problem.
So today we are teaming up with one of the biggest women's digital media companies in the world, Refinery twenty nine, to dive deeper into this investigation with an undercover thing that's going to shock you.
We're exposing the ugly truth behind black market beauty products that could be making you sick.
This winter I got a tip that made my jaw drop.
Car tables on the street in downtown Los Angeles lined with just released Ind in demand beauty products at a fraction of the retail price.
Things that had just hit stores.
And even to a beauty editor, they look totally authentic.
So what's the deal?
I headed downtown to see for myself.
The prices in Santiale are astounding.
It appears that MAC lipstick is going for two dollars, Urban Decay palettes for 15 instead of 50.
So what's the catch?
So you have every brand that everyone wants.
You have Too Faced, MAC, Kylie.
Like how much, for example, is a Kylie lip kit here?
It's $6.
$6.
And then how do you sell them for so much less than you would find them like on Kylie's website, for example?
Well, not line.
Everything's from China.
How do you get it?
Where do you order it?
I think everything's come from the same wear, same thing.
So you think a lot of the stuff that you're buying from China is replica or they're just the same stuff.
Yeah, it's just the same stuff.
That's what I think.
Because I use it.
I see the original.
I see the fake.
And I really don't see a lot of things that are different.
You just save more money.
Yeah.
According to sellers, this is the secret to getting cult products at rock bottom prices but are they really the same?
To find out just how easy it is to get the goods in bulk, we sent an undercover reporter into a cosmetics market in Guangzhou, a major manufacturing hub in China.
Turns out it's as easy as walking into the right store, which was the first one we tried.
These are half-stocks.
Maybe, can I see?
You need it for a person that offers these?
Well, first I have to see the quality.
Quantity similar to Mac.
You can ship to the US?
Yes.
You know what they make it with?
Like, is it animal fat or, you know, is it just like the real?
Mm.
Same product, same ingredient?
A little bit different?
They can't be the same as original.
In China here, famous for coffee.
Yeah.
We can't make all the same as original.
But many customers love it.
Actually, what's inside is very different.
The FBI reports that counterfeit cosmetics have been found to contain dangerous levels of bacteria, and reported reactions include acne, psoriasis, serious skin rashes, and eye infections.
What's more, these reactions can take days to show up, which means the counterfeit products don't always get the blame they deserve.
Joining me now is Senior Beauty Editor at Refinery twenty nine, Lexi Lepseck.
So what surprised you, this is great, great investigation.
What surprised you the most about what the people who are selling the products were saying about its safety?
Yes.
I mean, there were so many things that shocked me during this investigation, but when it comes to the sellers and the buyers that are selling and buying downtown and, you know, all over the place, I think the biggest thing is just a lack of awareness about how dangerous these products are.
And where are these products being sold?
Well, they're being sold just about everywhere.
If you want to find a fake product, you definitely can.
So there's sort of two folds.
On the one hand, you have them online, which is the majority of the fake products.
And then you also have the other side of this, which is you can buy them in the flesh.
You can buy them at kiosks at the mall.
You can buy them at flea markets.
And also a lot of this, which was on card tables in alleys in Chinatown and in Santiago in Los Angeles, is really starting to spill over.
And you're starting to see card tables on just the street full of these products.
So when I first started watching this story, I assumed that you could tell.
And people sort of knew what they were getting into.
So let's just explain to everybody.
Yeah.
Figure out how easy it is to be duped into thinking that you got the real product, I mean a bargain basement value, price rather, for a product that has great value.
So you brought me products.
I don't know which is real, which is not.
Okay.
Can you all look at these, by the way, together?
And again, these are some of the fake ones that Lexi picked up in the investigation.
Yes.
Personally, I'm looking at these.
I can't really tell the difference.
Yes.
Maybe you all can, but at least for the untrained male eye, you can't.
Well, actually, for the untrained eye, you can't.
And also, we have found fakes that were so good, even the brands had a hard time recognizing whether they were fake or not.
It's really wild.
So on one side, you see, these guys are the real ones here.
And we see, for example, with the Urban Decay Naked Palette, here is the real one and here is the fake one.
So when you open it up, you'll be able to tell a little bit better.
better, but we've sort of seen these fakes really run the gamut.
So on one side of it, you have it really, really bad fakes that are just very obvious.
They look, you know, they look bad.
We've even seen misspellings on some of the fake products.
That's at the back of the packaging.
This looks very similar.
It looks very, very similar.
How if colors are similar?
Yes.
So you have to think about the counterfeiters are making a lot of money selling these fake products.
And for them, the most important thing is just nailing the packaging and nailing what it looks like.
So short of misspellings and all of that weird stuff you see on the bad ones, even the really, really sophisticated fakes, you can tell.
Well, the smell is one thing that you've noticed and we've noticed in a lot of different ones, but basically, see for example, this one, it looks almost nearly identical.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, even as someone who covers beauty and has written about beauty for many years, it's difficult for me to kind of identify which.
But again, the color, when you get down to it, you have to think about the counterfeiters only care about the packaging.
They only care about what's on the outside.
So when you actually play with a lot of these products, you'll very quickly realize that the finish, the color, and the texture is nothing like what you actually want to be buying.
But again, most of us when we're shopping for makeup aren't ripping And so it makes it very, very, very difficult to tell what's real and what's fake.
Except for the fact that these can cause health problems, which is a lot of health problems.
Basically, what you're putting on your skin can affect you in a myriad of different ways.
We're going to cover that when the investigation continues.
You're about to see Lexi go undercover in a sting operation to stop a scammer in his tracks.
A lot of action there.
Plus what you need to know to protect yourself from buying fake beauty products that can be making you sick.
We're going to show you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
A special doctor on this.
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We are back investigating the underground world of fake beauty products and what you need to know to protect yourself.
Refinery 29 senior beauty editor, Lexi Lebsak, is here.
So why is it so important?
for us to expose black mafia makeup and skin products.
Yes, well, I mean, for us and for our reader and for everyone out there, makeup is a form of self-expression.
It's just something that you do to make yourself feel good, to express yourself.
And they're really coming after and they're preying on these people who are just trying to, you know, feel their best.
And that's really, I mean, it doesn't sit right with me.
And I think it doesn't sit right with most people.
We also are seeing this.
Yes.
These fakes, our products are actually resulting in significant physical changes, damage.
Some of these could be really problematic.
So the woman on the right here, she tried a Kylie And the next morning she woke up with a really nasty eye infection that persisted for about a week and a half.
And so this is another woman who was using a fake Ben Kni powder, which is a super niche product.
They're counterfeiting it like crazy.
And she applied this right on the top of her cheekbones.
She told me for about four or five days and then she woke up with this horrible, terrible, painful reaction on it.
The question is why would that happen?
Why can't they just make these products the way big companies do?
This is where they make these products, guys.
This is a fake beauty products warehouse.
I mean, complete filth and scalor.
Look at this.
If you make products in a place that looks like this, not surprisingly, you put it in your eye and guess what happens?
Yeah.
So Lexi teamed up with law enforcement in an undercover sting to stop fake products from being sold to you.
This is Jimmy, Estee Lauder's private investigator.
He's going to be showing us just how they fight counterfeiting right here in New York City.
Hi.
So like I said, this is Nancy Gordon with Estee Lauder.
It's so nice to meet you.
Nancy is the expert in authentication, so she's coming out with us to actually examine the products that we're buying to confirm that they're counterfeit.
So the vendor is on the corner.
Okay.
At 1A1 in St. Nick.
So we're going to go up there and have the operatives make a buy with us.
If anything happens, I'm supposed to go into the bank immediately.
The mac is the biggest one that people buy.
The donut is three for 20.
Three for 20?
25.
How much were just these?
25.
Are you away five?
Okay.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Good job.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
Thanks.
So we got all literally they bought all of this stuff for $120 and this at the store would just be like it would be hundreds of dollars like easily that's wild so now can you tell it's counterfeit yet?
Oh sure you didn't even open it you just know I didn't need to I can tell by the packaging We are joined now by President of the Allegiance Protection Group, Jamie Carty.
So we just saw you and Lexi expose these scammers in the app.
So what's the latestest, the update on what happened to these guys?
Well, the police further investigated this counterfeit seller and ultimately arrested him and seized those counterfeit goods and took them off the street.
I was surprised.
Just touching the packet, experts could tell.
But for us, it's much more challenging.
How can people protect themselves from being conned?
And again, I'm only focused on this because I know it messes with your body and it leads you about what's causing your problems.
So these are not fake handbags, which are a whole separate issue.
Correct.
So there's a couple of points that the consumer should be aware of.
Price point.
We as consumers know what something should cost.
So if something is significantly reduced in price, you should take a better look at that.
And ultimately, buy from a reputable location.
And the retailers have policies to return the products if the consumer isn't happy.
So the return policy should be looked at as well.
That's a good tip, because that's not something you're going to get in the street corner, and a lot of websites don't give it.
So we have teamed up with the Anti-Conflicting Coalition to stop these scammers.
They say, if you suspect that you've got a fake, contact the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
I'm going to put this in a mouthful, I'm going to put it up on dr. Oz dot com dot We'll link to it so you can rapidly report these things, stay ahead of it, be smart about this, protect yourself.
The information, by the way, is at the bottom of the screen as well.
Jim and Lexi, nice job.
Thanks for being here.
We'll be right back.
Up next, Real Housewife Theresa Judice opens up about what's really going on with her marriage.
She's a housewife who became a household name, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Theresa Judice.
She's here.
Now give her applause.
She deserves it.
The world watched as she went from reality star to prison inmate and then back again.
She's here today getting real about her health struggles, divorce rumors and the secret pain that she has suffered behind closed doors.
Please welcome back to the show, Theresa Giudice.
*applaudissements*
I'm trying to walk back.
So how are you?
You look wonderful.
Thank you.
Hi guys.
They've been waiting for you with bated breath.
Oh, good.
I'm excited to be here.
So how are you doing?
How your beautiful daughter's faring?
They're doing really well, thank God.
You know, we've been through the past few years been crazy, but thank God, you know, we're blessed.
You certainly are blessed.
When you came on last time, you had just gotten out of jail.
Recently.
And, you know, that's a lot to be process in itself, but you've had a little time to get past that.
What's gone on since we've spoken last?
Well, unfortunately, I lost my mom.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so that's, you know, it's been really tough for me because she was my everything.
She was 66.
She was so young.
I just never thought in a million years that I would lose her.
And especially, and now, that's what made, I know you're going to ask me more stuff, that's what made everything come out in my book is because I lost my mom.
And I just feel like those 11 and a half months that I was away, I lost time with her.
And now I just let everything out.
I think it's a good thing.
It's good to do topics.
It's a good thing.
And we're going to talk very honestly about a lot of topics.
And I thank you for being so real in this.
The book is superb, by the way.
She's standing.
And she says she's standing alone.
But actually, I think your mom is still there watching over you and certain your daughters are.
But let's talk about this.
I wrote a little quote down for the book.
You say, From now on, your new approach on life, no holding back, no glossing over, no smiling through the pain.
Why?
Why take this new approach through life?
When I was growing, I was told, you know, always smile, never let anyone see you sweat.
So that's what I did.
And it takes a lot for me to cry, but I do cry.
I am human.
I'm not a robot.
Some people are like, you never cry, but I do.
And so that's why, and especially now, that's why I feel like it's good to let everything out.
Because after you let it out, then you detox and you can move forward.
So let's apply that to your husband, who you speak openly about in the book.
you know, there are issues, all relationships have issues.
Your marriage, which is of course always gonna be, 18 years of marriage, is always gonna be pulled on Next month.
Almost 18 years.
And he's in prison now, Joe.
There are some challenges that you talk about with Joe.
One of them is the fact that he has had a drinking issue.
Yeah, Joe, he makes homemade wine.
He loves making his homemade wine.
We have a wine room at our home.
And how it all started was when his dad passed away.
That took a big toll on him.
And then we were also going through the legal problems.
So he went from drinking like a few glasses of wine to drinking like a bottle, bottle and a half, sometimes two a night.
But now it's been eight 18 months that he's been away and obviously, you know, he hasn't, he's been sober 18 months.
But let me go back a little bit because, again, you speak so beautifully and so openly about real things.
Yeah.
So the night before he went to prison, you said he'd been drinking a fair amount.
Oh, yeah.
Like everybody, we had so much company over.
Like everybody was coming over to say goodbye to him.
So, you know, they were doing shots, they were drinking, yeah.
I mean, even the next day.
I wrote about it.
Yeah, even the next day.
That's all they were doing.
Well, if you don't mind sharing with the audience how that affected you.
Well, I just wanted, like, a lone talk.
time with him and I just felt like, and I wrote that in the book, that we didn't, I just wanted us to be alone, like not having all that company over.
Like Your last night together.
Our last night together, right.
And when he got to jail, was he sober?
No.
No, not when he got there.
No.
I think it took a few hours before he got sober.
Yeah, no.
I don't think it creates tension when you know you're going to be apart for each other.
What is the future?
What are you going to tell Joe when he comes home?
Well, I could tell, you know, he's definitely, you know, listen, when you're away, all you could do is you have time to think and reflect and better yourself.
And I could just tell...
And he knows like he has said sorry to me and like, you know, everything that, yes.
And that was really bothering me.
And now, especially after my mom passed away, I said to him, you need, like, you need to say sorry, like, but really mean it and understand it.
So I think he, you know, now he is.
And that's going to play out on the show.
It's awesome.
I miss your mom a lot, don't you?
I miss her tremendously.
Like, I'll start crying right now if you just mention her.
I won't mention her, but when do you miss her the most?
Every day.
She was at my house every day.
I won't ask you about her anymore.
Don't ask me because I used to talk to her like 20, 30 times a day.
20 to 30 times a day?
Yeah.
All the time.
All the time.
I used to talk to her.
She was like my best friend.
I don't have any sisters.
So she was like my sister, my best friend.
like my everything.
So what would your mom have told you to do with Joe?
I'm only asking this because there's so many women watching now who are in relationships where they love the person they're with, but they don't always like them.
They're angry at them sometimes.
Yeah, I think it's normal.
Yeah.
And I got really mad, and you could tell from the book.
Oh, I could tell.
I've never been like that before, but what made me open up and get really mad was after my mom passed away because I felt like I lost time with my mom, And the reason why I lost time out with my mom is because I was away.
jail yeah for some you know my husband told me to sign these these you know at a closing these two homes which i did and there was attorneys and i like i said in the book attorneys mortgage I've been working with advocates, mortgage brokers, bank people there.
So I didn't think I was doing anything wrong.
I had the best credit, over 800.
The best credit ever.
You did?
Yeah, that's why I got the mortgage in one second.
I mean, now my credit got shot because of all this.
But now I'm rebuilding again.
So it's like, I think seven something.
So I'm going to.
And you're doing okay.
Because the system's rigged against you if you don't have good credit.
Yeah.
I have ton more to talk to you about.
When you come back, Theresa is going to reveal the surprising treatment she and Joe tried, if I can talk about this that failed.
Plus the health secret, she says, is healing her anger and her pain.
Stay with us.
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The controversial new film, All Nuoz.
That's coming up Friday.
Real Houseways of New Jersey Star 360, Judice is here.
So the most compelling part of the whole story that you share in your book was about a medical procedure you had.
at the urging of Joe.
And I won't get in your way.
Share the story as you desire with America.
Okay.
Well, we had our three daughters and I only wanted three kids.
I always said, let's just, I was going to stop at three.
Which I, you know, I was like, that's it, we're done.
Then I guess Joe came home one day and he's like, I heard that you could pick the sex of your baby.
I guess it's in vitro and you could pick the sex of your baby.
And he really wanted a boy.
I always wanted to see how a boy would look like.
So I was like, all right, let's try it.
So we tried it and I didn't even get pregnant.
So I guess it wasn't meant to be.
And then we tried the natural way and I had A Adriana.
Well, the part about the story that caught me was the finances around it, which again is a kind of recurring theme for you?
It was really expensive.
And then at the end, my husband was really pissed that it didn't work.
He's like, you don't need to, he's like, you get pregnant fine on your own.
It didn't work like this.
And then at the end, he didn't want to pay the doctor the remaining balance.
And I was just like, just pay it, because I didn't want, I just didn't want it to get out there that we even did it.
And, you know, so I came, when I came home, I paid her.
You paid it, even though Joe didn't.
Right.
When I came home from being away, I paid off everything.
Thank you, God.
Well, good for you.
Yeah, I paid off everything.
So one of the things that I. like as a mantra, you say, leave the past in the past and look to a brighter future.
That's a mantra you're using as a daily affirmation.
And the other aspect of stress management that was interested in is you say you do yoga now.
I love yoga.
It changes the way you feel, it changes the way you look, and it's good for your mind.
You show us a move?
Yeah.
You show me the move on the cover of the book?
Yes, I'll show you that move.
That move is the tree pose.
Tree pose.
Come over here.
Okay.
Don't make me fall.
No, I won't.
Okay.
And you can I'm going to take off my, well, I think you need to take off your shoes.
Okay, my shoes.
Okay, yeah.
So picky.
There we are.
Yeah.
Okay, my shoes are off.
Okay.
Can you help me get your shoes off?
No, I'm sure.
Okay, so you stand straight, your feet together.
Make your toes, your two toes touch, yeah, like that.
And so you feel you feel grounded, right?
I do.
Then take your right foot, start bringing it up, bend your knee, hold on to it with your right hand.
Now bring the bottom of your foot in your inner left thigh.
Whoa, you were good.
Whoa.
Come on, Carrie, give me your hand.
I got.
Oh, you got it?
I got it though, I got it.
Okay.
I'm a contender.
Okay.
And you put your hands up, okay?
No, no, no.
Stand, stand.
Bring your hands to your heart.
And if you could, open this leg as much as you could.
Okay, out.
I shouldn't hold your hands.
You're doing good.
I'm holding you here.
No.
I'm sorry.
That's the kind of friend I am.
Okay, like this.
And then bring your hands to your heart.
And breathe in through your nose.
Out through your nose.
And then if you want, you can lift your arms up, which I can't because this jack is off the shoulders.
Thank you very much for joining the show.
I like that.
I wish you the best of luck.
I can't.
And I'm so happy getting through all this.
Thank you.
Good.
Tricia Judice for today.
For more Real Stories from Tricia's Life, you can check out her new book.
It is very well done.
Standing Strong is in the stores now and The Real Housewives of New Jersey premieres when?
October 4.
Oh, tonight.
Today's October 4.
At 9 p.m.
We're right back.
I'm making a huge announcement about a year-long experiment that will change your health and the way your body uses weight.
What a day.
I'm excited to tell you about.
about our biggest, longest TV experiment ever.
A year in the making, putting the ten most popular diets in the world to test to find out which one really gets the best results.
It is the Great Diet Showdown.
Now I launched this because one of the most common questions I get asked is which diet works best.
Just tell me, doctor Ozzy.
People literally beg me for just the answer.
So together, we're going to find out which diet is going to make you feel leaner and stronger and change your health in the long run.
It's our biggest, longest TV experiment ever.
That great diet showdown.
We took 10 of the most popular diets.
Diets that everyone has been trying.
And for a solid year, we're putting them to the test to find out which could get you the best results.
How?
With women just like you.
Women who've struggled with their weight, trying one diet after another.
We picked 40 committed dieters ready to shed at least 10 pounds and test out the different diets for you.
We are going to lose this weight.
I'm ready.
I'm going to give it 110%.
This is just really time for me.
I know I will take some of this weight off.
We're transforming.
We want to get it done.
From now till January, you'll learn about each diet as top nutritionists weigh in with their input.
What are we looking for in each diet?
How easy is the prep?
What's the cost?
How fast does the weight come off?
And does it stay off?
It all leads to the great ranking.
And coming this January, we'll reveal the diet that could get the best results for you.
It is time to reveal the ten most popular diets that you've been asking about.
Now some of our experiment participants are right here, right behind me, to tell us more about them.
We're going to start off with the paleo diet.
This diet is about eating primarily protein and vegetables like prehistoric man did.
Pam, how are you doing with this?
I lost nineteen pounds eating primitive.
Our ancestors had it right.
Eating what comes from the earth really works and I feel great.
Nice job.
Okay, but you've got nine competitors here, we're going to keep moving here.
The vegan diet is about not eating animal products, which includes not eating eggs or dairy products.
Tiffany, the results from your vegan diet.
I have lost twenty two pounds, doctor Oz.
We're doing great.
Okay, you can see it's going to be a tough competition.
Next up, the elimination diet, which removes foods that cause inflammation.
Theresa, please show your results.
I am 13 pounds and counting.
I'm looking forward to getting more information out of my system.
I'm really feeling much healthier and less sluggish.
Oh, I like that.
Very, very sleek.
Yes.
All right.
The probiotic diet is all about foods that feed the gut, like yogurts and the fermented foods.
Adonica, your results.
Well, 15 pounds.
No glute.
No glute.
Probiotics.
Does it work?
These are proud women for good reason.
Next up, the protein shake diet.
Here's the rules here.
Two of your three meals a day are liquid because a lot of you are doing this.
Laura, has it worked for you?
Excellent, 17 pounds.
It's remarkable.
Yeah, it's super simple, especially for me.
I'm a busy mom on the go, so it's been wonderful with my lifestyle, yeah.
Good for you, it fits in nicely.
Next up, the French diet.
Now, this is a diet that they eat in France, it stresses portion control and lifestyle changes really hot among people who live in Europe.
And your results, taking away joy?
I'm down nine pounds and counting.
Good for you.
Yeah.
And most importantly, it helped me to reduce a chronic problem that I had with inflammation and swelling.
And so that's changed the way I actually live my life.
Have you adopted a French accent yet?
Probably we've gone to France.
Well, let me read.
It's funny, we fell into French.
Okay, then we have a friend in the show, Renatha.
You all recognize Renatha.
And she wanted to be on the Mediterranean diet.
You all know about that, Dot.
How's it going, my dear?
Okay, I'm down twenty one pounds.
Down!
Yay!
Next up, the Whole Real Foods diet.
This means eating nothing that comes in a package or that's processed.
Because remember, if it's processed outside the body, it messes with the processes inside the body.
That's the thought.
Crystal, please share your success.
twenty nine pounds.
That's a lot of pounds.
Yeah.
I got my waist back.
Hey.
Yeah.
I'm chilling.
I'm proud of all of you actually.
That's pretty impressive.
Pretty cool.
All right.
Next up, the high protein, low carb diet.
This is a diet where you want to take your carb count way down, like the 45 grams of carbs a day.
Angie, how did it go for you?
So far, I've lost 45 pounds.
Can you weigh?
I have.
Oh my goodness.
I'm feeling saffy and empowered and I'm ready to slay.
I see you with your eyes.
I'm proud of you.
And finally, the DASH diet.
The DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to stop hypertension.
Ooh, name.
You know why it's awkward?
Because doctors have named it.
But it does work for high blood pressure.
Lauren, how's it going?
Doctor Ross, I've lost six pounds.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Yes.
Now, I'm rushing to the finish line with lower cholesterol.
I like that.
Now, here's the thing, this experiment is not about losing weight.
Obviously, these are big differences.
But I'm not interested in weight by itself.
I'm interested in learning about these diets and how they change your overall health.
We've been studying these diets from top to bottom.
It's something, hopefully, that will sustain you for a long, long time.
It's time to start counting down to the best diet.
Here's the deal.
Week by week, we're going to go through the the diets, discuss the pros and cons of each, and then we're going to decide if these diets get it to the next round.
Now remember, you're just the first person from the diet.
There are other women who have been on the diet, so we're looking at the whole group together.
When we come back, we're going to walk through the first two diets, which are the high-protein, low-carb diet, and the French diet.
So stick around.
It hurt so bad you couldn't even breathe.
GLC's Chibaz and her devastating loss.
All nuance.
That's coming up Friday.
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We're back with a great diet showdown.
This is my biggest TV experiment ever.
Week by week, we're cutting down to the best diet for you.
From now until January, we'll be teaching you all about the different diets.
And at the end, the data will reveal the best diet.
Now there are hundreds of diets out there, literally hundreds of them, but we started with a curated list of the top ten diets that you've been wanting to try.
So we've been ranking these diets for the past couple of months.
So all these wonderful women have been trying them out with a bunch of other women in those groups.
Here's how we've been keeping score.
First of all, we want to understand the total percentage of weight lost for each group.
Not just for the individual, but for the whole group.
Does it work for the average person?
We also wanted to make sure that we look at additional health benefits.
Like, would it predict that your heart would be healthier?
Would you feel better?
That's important because you want to use the diet that's going to keep you alive for a long time.
And ease.
Ease of use.
Our ladies have been keeping track of how easy it is to shop and prep the food for the diets.
How do they feel on the diets?
That all counts because I want you to be on these programs for a long time.
That's how you actually get the benefits that you desire.
So, we're going to start with the high protein, low carb diet.
I'd like Angie to come on over.
She's been on it.
Please join me.
Now, remember Angie has been on it.
Andy has lost 45 pounds.
45 pounds in this diet.
Which is unbelievable.
You got a great energy.
And I'm hoping this diet helped you get there.
But I want to understand a bit more.
So a typical day of a diet, walk me through the different foods you would eat.
Well, I would start my day with two boiled eggs and a coffee with a splash of either half and half or heavy cream.
Heavy cream doesn't have any carbs.
And then lunch time is usually broccoli or spinach with some variety of lean protein.
I like chicken.
I like fish.
And then dinner time, I like to use the slow cooker to make some pulled pork and just add that to a low carb tortilla.
And I mean, honestly, it's so easy to follow.
And it's foods that I enjoy.
So this coffee looks pretty appetizing.
I would say.
The hardest part of the diet was what?
Honestly, the hardest part has been summer time.
I like beer.
And beer.
I like to drink beer at social events, like barbecues.
Not on the diet.
Yeah.
Not very low carb friendly.
So, truth to tell, I gained about ten pounds.
during the summer time.
But I'm back on track and I feel like I'm stronger than ever.
I really feel so empowered and I'm ready to push through to the end of the year.
So if I had to ask you very succinctly, what is it you like about this diet?
It's super easy to adapt to when you're out with friends and dining at places.
Just, you know, skip the bread, skip the rice, ask for a substituted vegetable like broccoli or spinach.
So the thing is, when you say get rid of the bread and get rid of the rice, these things can be hard for some folks.
So I'm going to walk you through my perspective, my thoughts on the diet.
So first off, what do I like about this?
It limits carbs, so the body has to burn fat, including body fat, like the fat you don't want on your body.
The body can use it as fuel if you don't have a lot of carbs there.
That's good for weight loss.
And this diet was actually low carb, not no carb.
So you can still have a couple of healthy grains, which generally makes it easier to stay on.
Meals were made up primarily of quality protein and veggies, as you saw outlined, and you can lose a lot of weight.
But I want to share my concerns, because there are some.
The first is, 80% of the people in your group did not have the great results that you have.
And I'm worried about the ability for people to stick to a diet like this because bread before meal, too much rice.
There are many ways you can trip on this diet and it affected folks.
And the biggest complaint was the reality that you gain weight rapidly after you've lost weight if you start to make mistakes.
So for these reasons the low carb, high protein diet is not going to make it to the next round.
And I know I know I know I want to see something.
For you it's working.
And I wouldn't change what you're doing because that's the key here.
If you get a diet that works for you, stick on it.
It may be the biggest fallacy out there to think that there's only one way to do this.
I'm trying to figure out what will work for most people.
And what I know from your experience is that it's going to work hugely well for some people.
You had the most weight loss of anybody, but it's not going to work for most people.
So I wish you the best and I will support you and I want you to keep going.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Thank you so much.
Good luck.
Go out this way.
All right.
The next diet we're going to look at is the French diet.
So I'm going to ask Joy to come on over.
She's been on the French diet.
She adopted a French accent.
And she actually lost nine pounds on this diet.
So I put up images that reflect what your food diary was showing us.
What's a typical day of food look like on the French diet.
It's very similar to this.
I made my own version of a modified bacon, egg and cheese.
We've never shown bacon on the show before.
That's what it looks like.
It works for the French.
It works for the French.
And for lunch?
I would make lunch the biggest meal of the day, so something substantial like baby kale spinach, rucola, a large portion of grilled chicken, usually.
That all sounds pretty good.
And it's your biggest meal of the day, which is cool.
And then you have salmon and and grilled vegetables.
What's the hardest part of this diet for you?
The hardest thing getting used to was to stop snacking.
I didn't realize until I started doing this how much snacking I did or that I just kind of grazed throughout the day.
So let me give you my doctor summary on this.
So very specifically, 50% of the calories are eaten at lunch.
Half the calories are at lunch with a lighter dinner.
I like that.
The French enjoy the ambience of the meal.
You're sitting down, you're not rushing through your meals.
Those are all positives.
All the food's whole, real ingredients, even the bacon is real bacon, nothing's processed.
But let me get to the things I didn't like about this diet.
First of all, I didn't like the fact that it wasn't really realistic for a lot of the folks watching now to sit down and have a leisurely lunch.
It's just hard to do that for a lot of people.
And I wish we could all do it, but I know that's impractical for many.
And this snack issue you mentioned, that's a real, real challenge for a lot of people.
I don't think I can get through it without snacks.
I mean, ask yourself, how often do you have zero snacks?
I think it makes it a little less sustainable.
In fact, so much so that, although you lost weight, on average, the groups that you're in your cohort, people on the French diet with you, have lost about eight pounds this year.
Okay.
So the dieters' weights have sort of gotten down and they've plateaued.
So I don't think the French diet is the right diet for most Americans, although it's the not going to advance to the next round.
Even though I love being with you.
All right.
Thank you very, very much.
Listen, we got eight diets left.
Eight remain.
Who's going to win this great diet showdown?
When we come back, the one thing every single person on these remaining diets is doing.
That's right.
They're all doing one thing and you should be doing it as well.
Find out what it is that is next.
A new season of True Crime Tuesdays.
And now, Thursdays on Dr. Oz.
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We're back with a great diet showdown.
And we just eliminated two diets from our list.
Here are the eight remaining diets.
You have the paleo diet, still going strong, the vegan diet, the elimination diet, you have a probiotic diet, a protein shake diet, the Renatha Mediterranean diet, a whole Real Foods diet, and there's a Dash diet over here.
So of these eight diets, there is one thing that they are all doing that is changing.
the way they eat.
And Crystal, who's on the whole Real Foods diet, come on join me if you don't mind, is going to explain to us what they're all doing.
Now, I didn't realize they all had this kind of common little language, but you're going to speak for all the dieters here.
You're going to share with all of America what all of you are doing despite being on different diets.
What are you all making happen?
So in all the diets, we all had to eat healthy fat foods.
All foods with healthy fats, which are the avocado, the almonds, the pumpkin seeds, the almond butter.
It's real good.
It does taste delicious.
Oh my God, so good.
So the way it helped me was I don't hungry for any more sweets.
I don't hungry for any of the bad foods anymore.
Potato chips, pizza.
I just don't eat it anymore.
Are you good with that?
Are you pretty comfortable you're going to whip those other diets?
Just beat them back?
Oh, yes.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
We're not all.
They're almost gone.
Okay, fight fat fighting fat foods is something everyone can start adding to their diet today.
Start by adding two tablespoons every day.
Crystal, I wish you much luck.
Thank you.
You can continue trash talking them as you want.
Find out more of these diets about them and their details as well as a full list of fat-fighting foods at dr. Oz.com, we're going to continue to start counting down and keep counting down the diets until January, until we reveal the ultimate winner of the Great Diet Showdown.
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much for your minute chance.
So the winner of the Great Diet Showdown will be coming to you later this season.
Stay with us, you'll learn the whole way.
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