"Though Oprah is arguably the most powerful woman in America, I find it hard to believe that more than one or two of her millions of audience members would run out and buy syringes to start injecting their hoo-has with estrogen just because someone on the Oprah show recommended it."

from a piece last year on Slate's XX Factor about Oprah's guests' controversial medical advice

"Take for instance this Web site text advertising the antidepressant Paxil: 'Just as a cake recipe requires you to use flour, sugar and baking powder in the right amounts, your brain needs a fine chemical balance in order to perform at its best.' The Western mind, endlessly analyzed by generations of theorists and researchers, has now been reduced to a batter of chemicals we carry around in the mixing bowl of our skulls."

The Americanization of Mental Illness by Ethan Watters in The New York Times Magazine

"Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Michael Pollan