Bob Greene has been Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer for many years. He's been there through the ups and downs of her battle with weight management. Maybe Bob is a good personal trainer, but he should step out of the nutritional aspect of health. While his principles for losing weight are sound (eat more veggies, avoid soda, eat larger meals earlier in the day, eat beans etc.), his Best Life food brand recommendations are anything but healthy. They are, for the most part, processed foods that contain too much salt, too much sugar, chemicals, and other unhealthy ingredients. Some products are sweetened with artificial sweeteners, such as Splenda (sucrolose), contain articial flavors & colors, preservatives and flavor enhancers, such as MSG. These foods are not healthy. Eating right is not just about calories, portion control, and fat grams, it's about the quality of the food you put in your body.

Here is an example of the ingredients of one of the Best Life approved deserts:

skim milk, cone [wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, soy lecithin, salt], sugar, corn syrup, cone coating [sugar, coconut oil, salatrim, cocoa powder, soy lecithin, artificial flavor], fudge topping [high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, cocoa processed with alkali, sugar, modified corn starch, salt, mono and diglycerides, vanilla, natural flavor, artificial flavor], polydextrose, cream, whey protein, fructan (dietary fiber), stabilizer [microcrystalline cellulose, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides, locust bean gum, calcium sulfate, polysorbate 80, carrageenan], natural flavor, Yellow #5, Blue #1, citricacid, vitamin A palmitate

How about this list of ingredients for the egg replacer?

Egg Whites (98%), water, natural flavors, sodium hexametaphosphate, guar gum, xanthan gum, color (includes Beta Carotene).Vitamins and minerals that had to be added back into this product because it is not real, whole food: Calcium sulfate, vitamin A palmitate, iron (ferric orthophosphate), vitamin E (alpha tocopherol, acetate), vitamin D3, Zinc sulfate, Calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12, vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), folic acid.

Just one serving of this "egg" product provides 8% of the RDA for vitamin A. That's quite a bit of added vitamin A, considering just about every single processed food today has added vitamin A. Research is now revealing that the over consumption of vitamin A can contribute to certain types of cancer. Also, this product seems devoid of a key cancer fighting mineral, selenium. Real eggs, while containing natural vitamin A, are a superfood rich in other natural vitamins and minerals and should be consumed in there whole forms. Eaten in moderation and properly combined with non-starchy, non-carb foods (sorry, no toast and home fries), eggs are a healthy, nutritious part of anyone's healthy eating plan.

So, thanks Oprah, for getting healthy eating and weight maintenance issues into the forefront of American consciousness. Best to skip the Best Life Diet foods though, by keeping it real, whole and as close to nature as possible!