Paula Deen has diabetes...

[Phentex]

I'm guessing she will be changing her cooking habits very soon...


Here's the link to the story in a blog at the AJC.

Food Network personality and cookbook author Paula Deen has type II diabetes and will soon go public with her condition, according to a report on The Daily website.

http://blogs.ajc.com/the-buzz/2012/01/13/report-paula-deen-to-reveal-she-has-diabetes/?cxntlid=thbz_hm

[shanti]

1. quelle surprise!

i used to enjoy eating the type of food she cooks, but that ended when i also became diabetic. i wonder if she will come out with a new diabetic cookbook.

[Phentex]

4. It's not a bad idea...

especially if they were good recipes.

[Denninmi]

2. Never been a fan.

Because of her personality, her politics, and especially her blatant disregard for health and nutrition. I certainly DON'T wish anything bad upon her, but I too can't say I'm surprised.

Whether or not this will be a "light bulb" moment for her remains to be seen. I can only say I hope it is.

I think that many of her recipes could undergo makeovers to end up far more healthy than they are. I guess my biggest problem with her is that she doesn't treat high fat, high sugar, and high salt as an occasional treat, but rather as a constant at every meal, at least from what I know of her (no cable, but she is on broadcast tv quite a bit).

[Phentex]

3. I like some of her recipes but she will go too far...

I know we discussed her at some point on DU2. She'll take an okay recipe and ruin it by trying to be too out there. One I recall was a sort of dessert that she ended up sticking an entire Snickers bar on top of!

And I do think she changed from her original laid back southern cooking to more of a shtick, saying Y'all every two seconds and adding butter to everything. There is quite a difference between her earlier and later shows!

[Denninmi]

5. After I posted my comment, I googled some of her recipes.

She definitely piles on the butter and salt.

[shanti]

6. the big bad recipe

(and i know this isn't news) is the ham, egg and krispy kreme donut sandwich - :yikes: there's a heart attack on a plate for ya!

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. I am not at all fond of her either - but wish her well.

[pamela]

14. Her politics? She's a Democrat. n/t

[Syrinx]

15. how dou know?

I searched her name on newsmeat, and got no results.

[pamela]

18. Buzzfeed's 40 celebrities who are Democrats

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-celebrities-who-are-democrats

I always suspected she was a Dem based on her interviews with the Carters and Michelle Obama. Both interviews really pissed off the wingnuts and she didn't care. She's been pretty outspoken about gay teen bullying also pissing off the wingnuts. So I wasn't surprised when I saw her listed as a Dem. Buzzfeed cites the Federal Election Commission as their source.

[Lucinda]

21. I loved her interview with the Carters.

I can't remember what was cooked, but you could see the deep respect she has for them both.

[grasswire]

19. that would be a surprise considering her anti-worker business policies

She's unapologetically affiliated with (and makes money from) a business entity known for its pitiful treatment of workers. Smithfield.

[yellerpup]

7. Totally predictable.

A person can't eat the kind of food she promotes and not die early. Almost everyone in my family has issues with diabetes, divided about half and half with Type I and type II. All the type ones are dead and the ones with type II who are still alive changed their eating and exercise habits. I don't have those issues, but I don't do "home cooking" that even remotely resembles theirs. I can't be around them for meals because I can't stand to see them eat food that is toxic to them and blow off diets that would help in favor of tradition, i.e., donuts, cream gravy, fried chicken, fried pork chops, fried fish, and fried veggies (when they eat veggies). I wish Paula well, but I've never been tempted to try her recipes.

[eridani]

16. Sure you can

All you need is the right protein variant that controls insulin response. See the Science group for more on this.

[supernova]

8. Paula Deen's Low Fat cooking in 3... 2... 1...

[grasswire]

10. too late -- her son has a new TV show already on healthy eating

I think it started last week.

How convenient.

[grasswire]

11. Just for the record here....

...not everyone with type 2 diabetes eats like Paula Deen cooks.

I ate well. Whole grains always, lots of fruits and vegetables. Low-fat dairy. Lots, lots of exercise.

Then I started drinking gatorade for the electrolytes. 20 oz a day. A year later I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. HFCS. Same healthy diet, same exercise, but a year of HFCS in the gatorade.

[blaze]

12. Shakes fist at HFCS!!!!!!!! nt

[yellerpup]

17. Wow!

That's an eye-popper. HFCS has serious long term effects even when you aren't a long-term user.

[Warpy]

13. Gee what a surprise.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone, no matter what I might think of a lot of her cooking. I hope she gets it under control and stays healthy.

Just what a shock, I mean, really.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. I'm sorry to hear that. I like Paula and, believe it or not, I've known people who talk

just like her. I don't think it's a good idea to eat her butter and sugar laden recipes on a regular basis, but they sure are good for a now and then treat. Having said that, many of the recipes in her cookbooks are just good home cooking foods.

[Lucinda]

22. Yup. They are. People just remember the decadent ones more often!

And my mother's family are all southern. My mom didn't have an accent, but most of the family does, so I am quite familiar with the twang!

[NJCher]

23. dumbfounded

I knew little about Paula Deen, but after reading this thread, I decided to check out recipes at her website.

OMD! I only looked at a couple recipes and tried to choose ones that might be healthy, but it's obvious this woman doesn't know the meaning of the word. Turnip green dip had a whole 8-oz container of sour cream, a pkg of cream cheese, and five slices of bacon!!

Next up: sweet potatoes with a kick. Are you ready for this? Two cups of brown sugar and 6 T of butter to only 3 large sweet potatoes.

This is nutz!

If this is what she does with turnips and sweet potatoes, I shudder to think of what "Bobby's Lighter Gooey Butter Cake" might be.

Promoting this kind of cooking is highly irresponsible. Too many people in our culture are obese and we all know about the high blood pressure caused by massive amounts of sodium added to prepared foods.

What she's been promoting is wrong, wrong, wrong.


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