Is Dr. Oz advocating for the end of dinner with friends?

Dr. Oz makes his intermittent fasting diet seem so easy. "Eat what you want!" he says (minus sugar, carbs, white flour, processed and fried foods, and certain meats and cheeses), "and stop eating at sunset."

There are so many ways this diet would go wrong for people who struggle with disordered eating (or who want to avoid it). But let's start with this --sunset comes at 5:05 pm. So, Dr. Oz is advocating for the end of dinner with friends and family?! Maybe this would work for a robot, but not for a human who is wired by years of evolution to communal eating.

Make no mistake. You won't fail this trendy diet, it will fail you.

In a recent blog, I explain why I think diets like these should come with warning labels. What you think? Let us know in the comments below. 

​-Alison Ross, LMFT

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