5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Trust Celebrity Medical Advice

Sure, you’ve determined that celebrities are a go-to source for style tips and gossip. You may think it makes sense to extend that trust to advice about your health. Here are 5 examples that may make you consider making a trip to the doctor instead.

1. Megan Fox:  Drink vinegar to lose weight

“Vinegar cleanses out your system entirely. It will get rid of, for women who retain water weight from your menstrual cycle and all that, it gets rid of it really fast.” According to the Mayo Clinic, regularly drinking vinegar will not only fail to cause weight loss, but it can even interact with some medications and cause low potassium, a potentially life-threatening condition.

2.    Dr. Oz: “Miraculous” diet pills

On raspberry ketones: “I’ve got the number one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat”. On Garcinia Cambogia: “It may be the simple solution you’ve been looking for to bust your body fat for good.” On Green coffee extract: “You may think magic is make-believe, but this little bean has scientists saying they found the magic weight-loss for every body type.”

The only miracle here is that he got away with calling diet pills “magic” The claims made for all 3 diet pills were found to be false.  

3.    Kim and Khloe Kardashian: “Waist-training” 

The Kardashians have famously endorsed wearing a corset-like band while exercise to get that perfect, tiny waist. What you really get is some difficulty breathing and a risk of breaking some ribs.  

4.    Shailene Woodley: Eating clay gets rid of “heavy metals”

"Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body...helps clean heavy metals out of your body." Woodley’s anecdotal evidence for this claim came from a friend’s metallic-smelling bowel movement after eating clay


Not only does clay do little to remove heavy metals from your body, but your liver and kidney can already do this just fine on their own.

5.  Gwyneth Paltrow: Sun can’t be bad because it’s natural

"We’re human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I think we should all get sun and fresh air. I don’t think anything that is natural can be bad for you." While no one is suggesting that you completely avoid the sun, neglecting sun screen (and getting that tan) is a surefire way to cause melanoma.