I knew it, Paula DEEN using her Dx of Type II diabetes as a new cash path

[UTUSN]

So the news last week was that she had been diagnosed and would be hitting the yak venues this week about it. The immediate thought was that she would be unveiling herself as a healthy-cooking entrepreneur. And here she is on the Today show "giving her old recipes a (healthy) twist."

A couple of alternatives might be just going away or apologizing or something. She's telling ROKER that she's ALWAYS eaten in moderation all along, somehow wasn't doing really unhealthy things that she's changing.

[warrior1]

1. it's always about the $$

If your interest in healthy cooking there is a new channel on DISH call Veria.

Here's a link to their home page.

http://www.veria.com/

[aikoaiko]

2. Good for her.

Shine on you crazy diamond, Paula.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Ha! She's always eaten a lot. That said, I suspect there's more to diabetes than just what we eat

When I lived in Spain, I ate fatty, and I ate a lot, and I weighed less than I do here in the States. Also, I didn't have to fight for weight maintenance at the gym. In fact, I didn't have a gym. In FACT, I never exercised when I lived in Spain. I just lived the normal life that Spaniards do, walking here and there because cities and towns there are un-sprawled and therefore designed for walking and taking their excellent public xport.

What I didn't eat a lot of was fast food. No McD for me over there, although they do have McDs. One interesting thing about McDs over there: their fish sandwich LOOKS like fish. It doesn't look like a square piece of mystery meat. They also serve wine at McDs, and I think that moderate wine drinking (with meals only) helps keep weight in check, and the body healthy.

[xchrom]

4. i like paula deen and i wish her the best. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

5. When you get lemons, make lemonade.

Pun intended.

[madrchsod]

6. can`t stand her or her cooking...

ya another bunch of crappy cookbooks and a tv show

[Fawke Em]

7. Her son is already doing this with "Not My Mama's Meals."

How can they both have a show about taking her recipes and toning down the butter, fat, sugar and lard?

[Botany]

8. I wonder why?

Ingredients
For the Deep Dish Pie Crust:
6 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups butter-flavored solid shortening (recommended: Crisco)
1 tablespoon salt
3/4 cup cold water
For the Filling:
24 apples, preferably Golden Delicious or Granny Smith, peeled, quartered and thinly sliced*
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
For the streusel:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup pecans
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup milk
4 tablespoons sugar
1 recipe Caramel Pecan Topping, recipe follows

[_ed_]

9. Who knew that an awful diet matched with a sedentary lifestyle

would make you sick?

The woman profits from encouraging people to clog their arteries, gets Type II diabetes as a result of her awful lifestyle, and is now going to hock drugs to fight the preventable sickness that she gave herself with her diet. Only in America.

[KurtNYC]

10. sounds less like a NEW cash path than some spin to maintain the old cash path

In marketing there is a concept called "Thought Leadership" -- it is used primarily in corporate marketing but applies here. The basic idea is that you not only sell your products but also enhance and position your brand by talking authoritatively about trends and new information or studies.

Paula Deen the person, doesn't deserve the torture that is Type II diabetes. No one does and I wish her the best in dealing with this disease.

but Paula Deen, the brand, is forever diminished and tarnished by this. Now the audience will see a sick person cooking the food that got her sick. Imagine if the Marlboro Man revealed that he had lung cancer and then continued to appear in commercials for cigs. I think this is similar. Her brand is being an authority on indulgent southern cooking. She can't suddenly become the Queen of Diabetes maintenance cooking because she has no authority in that.

She has a tough road ahead and my heart goes out to her.

[Taverner]

11. Meh - good for her

Better to make money off diabetes than off of war...

[joeybee12]

12. Let her spend a few years in the Smithfield Farms pens

where she gets the ham she uses and where the pigs she uses spend their whole lives unable to stand up...I loathe this money-grubbing no talent so and so.

[qanda]

13. The worst part is that her new cash path has something to do with promoting a particular drug

Some once-daily noninsulin injection.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/paula-deen-diabetes_n_1210049.html

[jwirr]

14. While I think your statement is totally correct. I as a diabetic would love to see a food show that

actually was touting healthy eating.

[Ilsa]

15. She claims she always stressed moderation in eating

her high fat recipes. Her size doesn't say that to me, and weight is a risk factor in development of Type 2.

She went on the Today show and said their website was going to help everyone with Type 2. Sure, right, whatever.

I've decided not to like her personally any more after not liking her recipes.

[EC]

16. Yes, I realized that after watching her on

GMA this morning. She was diagnoised 2 years ago. She was waiting for some kind of monetary reason to expose it. Then I also realized that there is no reason for her to expose it or tell anyone, so the only reason she is talking about it is for a new line of food products.

[RebelOne]

17. Quite a few of her food products

are now being sold at Big Lots at half the price.

[qanda]

19. Did I miss something?

The only thing I heard her talking about was her endorsement of a drug that she was using to control her insulin levels.

[emilyg]

18. Good for her.