Dr. Oz Redefines What it IS to BE a Vegetarian
I listened to Dr. Oz in utter disbelief today as he interviewed Jason who CLAIMED to be a Vegetarian.
Let me be clear…Jason is NOT a Vegetarian!
Jason is a junk food junkie – plain and simple. He binges on frozen pizza and soda pop daily.
Jason is on the opposite end of the spectrum from what a Vegetarian is…and Dr. Oz should know better.
Really…Oz…dude…are you out of your mind? You should have pointed out that the diet that Jason eats is NOT a Vegetarian diet. You failed your audience!
Maybe it was supposed to be funny; a vegetarian that doesn’t eat vegetables. I find it deplorable and dangerously disconcerting that this segment would have been approved by the producer of the show.
Maybe you fooled some total idiots who have no idea what a healthy Vegetarian diet is comprised of…there are people who don’t have a clue. These impoverished individuals are too busy to notice what we have been doing to educate the masses for the last forty years. They are busy driving through the fast food lanes to grab burgers, fries, and soda pop on their way to chronic disease and rapid aging in ignorance and laziness.
Speaking of lazy people, Jason and his wife are the worst examples to their children of parents who are supposed to be caring for their children. Throwing a frozen pizza in the oven and then parking yourself on the couch with a soda pop in your hand is not going to get Jason or his wife a nod for being good parents. They are setting up their kids for a lifetime of sickness, disease, and illness with such an abnormal lifestyle. These two adults are lazy. They don’t know how to shop for groceries in a healthy manner and they don’t take the time to cook and prepare real healthy meals for their family. I am surprised that there was no one to rescue the children from such a fate of family dietary inheritance. Shame on those parents!
A real and genuine Vegetarian diet is composed of whole foods which include whole grains, beans, legumes, seeds, nuts, vegetables, sea vegetables, fresh fruit, dried fruit, and a variety of seasonings and spices, herbal teas, healthy beverages, and other organic items which Jason and his wife don’t even realize exist.
I thought it helpful that a FoodNetwork icon might try to help this couple recognize a vegetable and a spice, but edamame and ginger were far too advanced for Jason and wife. They couldn’t figure out how to grate a fresh ginger root if their lives depended upon it…and they would probably forget to open the soybean to get to the edamame inside the shell. They need basics. They need soups and stews, they need brown rice and stir-fried vegetables, they need whole grain cereals and soymilk. Begin with basics and then graduate to ginger root and Asian cuisine.
The FoodNetwork and Dr. Oz producers should facilitate a tour of a Whole Foods Market and give this couple a tour of each aisle in the grocery store which is where real vegetarians shop. The wife needs a cooking class, especially how to prepare salads and chop vegetables.
Learn to brew some herbal teas and how to make real lemonade from fresh lemons…and let the kids help so they grow up with better skills in the kitchen.
Real Vegetarians have brick ovens where we make our own artisan pizzas using fresh organic ingredients from our gardens and our farmer’s markets.
Real Vegetarians! Certainly Dr. Oz has producers who can find an authentic one to interview and feature on the show, instead of the garbage that I forced myself to watch today that tells me that the production crew is almost as lazy as Jason and his wife.
One can only hope that the viewing audience demands better programming than this…and will eventually learn what a true Vegetarian diet looks like!
