Paula Deen

[Joshua_me]

Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

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Sounds to me like she waiting until she could make a profit off of announcing her diabetes to the world, and that's a deep-fried and buttered Southern slap in the face to those who suffer with the disease.
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By LEANNE ITALIE

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NEW YORK (AP) - Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV.

She said she isn't changing the comfort cooking that made her a star, though it isn't clear how much of it she'll continue to eat while she promotes health-conscious recipes along with a diabetes drug she's endorsing for a Danish company.

"I've always said, 'Practice moderation, y'all.' I'll probably say that a little louder now," Deen said Tuesday after revealing her diagnosis on NBC's "Today" show. "You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake."

Health activists and one fellow chef called her a hypocrite for promoting an unhealthy diet along with a drug to treat its likely effects. Deen added her support of the Novo Nordisk company to a collection of lucrative endorsements that include Smithfield ham and Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

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Deen, who will turn 65 on Thursday, said she kept her diagnosis private as she and her family figured out what to do, presumably about her health and a career built solidly on Southern cooking. Among her recipes: deep-fried cheesecake covered in chocolate and powdered sugar, and a quiche that calls for a pound of bacon.

"I really sat on this information for a few years because I said, 'Oh, my gosh, what am I going to do about this? Is my life fixing to change? Am I no longer going to like my life?" she asked. "I had to have time to adjust and soak it all in and get up all the information that I could."

While Deen, who lives in Savannah, Ga., has cut out the sweet tea she routinely drank straight through to bedtime and taken up treadmill walking, she plans few changes on the air.

Government doctors say that being overweight (as Deen is), over 45 (as Deen is) and inactive (as Deen was) increase the risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. Growth of the disease in the U.S. has been closely tied to escalating obesity rates. Roughly 23 million Americans are believed to have the most common Type 2 diabetes; patients' bodies either do not produce enough insulin or do not use it efficiently, allowing excess sugar, or glucose, to accumulate in the blood.

Deen is the pitch person for Novo Nordisk's new online program, Diabetes in a New Light, which offers tips on food preparation, stress management and working with doctors on treatment. She has contributed diabetes-friendly recipes to the website and takes the company's drug Victoza, a once-daily noninsulin injection that had global sales of $734 million in the first nine months of 2011.
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A recipe for Lady and Sons Lasagna, on her diabetes-conscious site, uses extra-lean ground beef and cans of unsalted tomato sauce and diced tomatoes, for a dish estimated at 260 calories a serving. Turn to Deen's collection of recipes on The Food Network's site and find Grandmother Paul's fried chicken, with Crisco shortening for frying, or baked French Toast casserole, with two cups of half-and-half and a half-pound of butter. No calorie counts are estimated.

The Novo Nordisk site links to promotional materials for the drug Victoza. Company spokeswoman Ambre Morley and Deen declined to disclose how much she is being paid.

Deen said she had no help or advice to offer the public when she was first diagnosed, but feels she's making a contribution now.

None of that matters much to outspoken chef Anthony Bourdain, who has never been a Deen fan. He told Eater.com of her diabetes announcement: "When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 diabetes ... it's in bad taste if nothing else."

In Yuba, Wis., Judd Dvorak watches Deen cook on TV all the time with his wife. He thinks Bourdain has the right idea. Dvorak said it's wrong for Deen to accept money to become a paid spokeswoman for a diabetes drug after espousing a cooking style that helps lead to diabetes.
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"It would be like someone who goes on TV and brags about how wonderful it is to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and then when he or she gets lung cancer becomes a paid spokesperson for nicotine patches," Dvorak said. "I feel it is in very poor taste and if she chose to become an unpaid spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association, that would be a better way for her to make a difference and help fight this horrible disease."
Deen also smokes, but she considers her heavy-handed food only one piece of the diabetes puzzle, with genetics, lifestyle, stress, age and race. She said she would never advocate smoking and her diabetes is "well under control."

While making changes in her personal life, she doesn't think her TV shows - there are three - will look much different. She spends about 30 days a year taping, "so I'm not cooking and eating that way every day."
That's something the public doesn't necessarily know. The food, Deen said, isn't really to blame.

"I am who I am," she said. "I think the South gets a bad rap sometimes, saying our food is very unhealthy, but frankly I don't think that's the case. I think it's like any other food, whether it be Italian, French, Cajun. They all can be very high in calories and that's where we have to practice portion control and moderation."
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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Full Image[/FONT]Morley said the company didn't know Deen had diabetes when it approached her about promoting the new health initiative.

"We really just wanted to ask her, 'Hey, Paula, do you think we could challenge you to change up some of your recipes and make them diabetes-friendly," Morley said. "And her reply was, 'How did you guys know I had diabetes?'"

It was a surprise to the Food Network as well. Network officials found out only last week, said spokesman Jesse Derris.

"As part of the Food Network's family, our only concern is for Paula's health. We will continue to support her as she confronts this new challenge, taking her lead on what future episodes will offer her fans," he said.

Some health experts question the delay between the time Deen was diagnosed with diabetes and her move three years later to promote a healthier way of cooking and living.
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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Full Image[/FONT]"A more responsible approach would have been that once she was diagnosed with diabetes to really emphasize to her viewers the importance of eating a healthy diet," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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[chrisw87]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Wilford Brimley cat seems relevant here.

 

[QuinnRider]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Loved Paula before this story broke and I still love her after. She is outragous and I enjoy her for it. It's her life, let her do as she will. It's our choice what we put in our mouth as it is what she puts in hers. Lets hope the food people grew/grow up with has more influence on them than a woman on a cable tv show. Part of the fun of her show is the outragousness she serves and I think she'd agree with that. In fact, on numerous occasions as she is making something she eludes to that fact. It's like people are blaming her for the whole damn disease lol. All haters can eff off, Paula can do her thing and she will continue to be as popular as ever.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

ROFL Wilford Brimley cat!

It's a terrible thing for her to hide. Her recipes and diet clearly illustrate the problem in this country. There are people who would have been inspired to change their diets had they heard from her three years ago. Clearly, this is an act of shame for her secrecy. She feels guilty because she knows the food she made contributed to her own diabetes

 

[chrisw87]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

this all kind makes me miss how the FOOD Network used to be...a real cooking channel with good shows like "Good Eats"..and Ming Tsai's show; that was a good one too...along with a few others

I feel for you, thankfully Australia and Great Britan still have some very respectable chef's that are quite prominent on tv. I am not a big fan of Gordon Ramsay though, however people like Rick Stein have to be admired. His shows are like a mix of literary reflection and good classic food.

Don't get me started on Heston Blumenthal too, crazy man but brilliant things.

As for American Chef's, there aren't many on tv here, apart from a little touch of Emeril I really couldn't name any. Personally I think the Food Network should scout youtube, there is really some charismatic and talented chefs on there from the states who would really be helpful in re-creating the US tv cookery thing.

 

[Enduster]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Paula Dean... Another typical hypocrite living in denial that her obesity is nothing to worry about. I wonder if she will change her tune once they start chopping off her diseased feet.

Obesity is no laughing matter, nor a condition you just need to be ok with. If you're obese you will die much sooner and have a less enjoyable life. Not to mention the burden your fatty carcass will cost us non-obese taxpayers.

 

[Joshua_me]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

"I've always said, 'Practice moderation, y'all"


^Horseshit, Paula.... I like you, even as I say that... (I enjoy your sons even more so, but that's another thread....)

I enjoy The Food Network far more than I should, and I've seen you giggle with glee as you add yet another stick of butter or another scoop of ice cream atop an already sinfully rich dessert to buy this moderation crap you're trying to rewrite.

The backpedaling isn't going to work.

Tens of thousands of people watch your shows and watch as you hock your "gooey butter cakes" and "ham sausages" on QVC, and NOW you're trying to say you "practice moderation" ?

Many people will say, "big deal", but Paula has a surprisingly large lot of followers that subscribe to her quarterly magazine, recreate her recipes and follow her lifestyle and she did this for THREE YEARS knowing that she herself was a victim of a high fat, high sugar disease ?

She's made *millions* doing this, (her house alone is "to die for") with little regard to what it was potentially doing to her fans.

It's quite a load of hypocrisy to swallow.

I don't care how charming she is.....

 

[Joshua_me]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I wonder if she will change her tune once they start chopping off her diseased feet.

^ Well, goodness...

A little graphic, but right to the reality of the matter.

I watched my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather and my own Dad die of diabetes, (mostly because they couldn't give up the booze...)

And I've made it my mission to break the cycle. (Which is why I champion smoking pot over drinking, even though I get raked over the coals all the time for it...)

I watch my diet, I cycle everyday and I smoke weed and I take Xanax to keep all the shit I went through in my childhood in check.

Judge me if you want, (and LORD KNOWS some of you do) but, I've chosen a way to live life while keeping my glucose levels in check.

It works for me.

 

[Seasoned]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

And fit runners can drop dead at the age of 50 from a heart attack or a healthy eater can develop cancer. No one forces a viewer to watch her show or be turned on by adding additional fat to a recipe.

I don't like her show, y'all because her relationship with her sons creeps me out, and her high fat recipes turned me off. It's still a free country and given the size of her and her family no one could have thought that her cooking was health food. Is Ina next?

 

[kevbo]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Because every other fat person with diabetes has no trouble controlling their urges to eat comfort foods...

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

As for Anthony Bourdain, what a bitter, caustic, pickled old puss he is.

THANK you. He just wanted an excuse to jump on her again, and here was his opening.

His feud with her is more embarrassing than a war of words on Twitter between... anybody "famous".

And Enduster... shut up.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

suggest lot lands just a get bck basics

hey stoooopid moron publics This a where food cum from

thankyou

not fogat wata cause ya no travel with a out it

 

[rareboy]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I still loves me some Paula Deen.

She never has said that you should eat all this shit all the time. Her cookin' is occasion food, not what's on the supper table every day.

For us, for instance, we are eating soup and salads and other simple fare 6 days each week on average. So when we cook for company and start with a stick of butter...it is a real treat. And we don't eat seconds and thirds either.

Bourdain is such a nasty piece of work. I'd rather die happy with Paula than in some puritanical monkshouse eating gruel with Bourdain.

 

[quasar]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I haven't got a clue who Paula Deen is, but I have a feeling that my main argument with her would be if she was 'selling' her recipes as being 'healthy'. A 'diabetic' diet should be no different to a normal everyday 'healthy' diet.

I'm Type1 diabetic but it doesn't stop me from having a portion of something totally indulgent, loaded with sugar and totally unhealthy.... occasionally - and that's the important word... occasionally. As a diabetic it doesn't stop me from making choc muffins and cookies and tiramisu or sharing recipes for such things.

And as a chef/cook, Paula Deen, in creating unhealthy meals/desserts/treats, isn't forcing obese people to stuff their gullet right down to their gusset with unhealthy options.

I must admit however, that I find it distasteful that she should be promoting a particular diabetic treatment rather than promoting and creating much healthier meals.

 

[Nomenclature]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

It's not like Paula Deen is the only person on The Food Network hocking unhealthy food. Why are we picking on her?

 

[diamondstar]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Good for any idiot who ate/cook the way Paula did. Seriously who the fuck doesn't know frying sugar in butter, chicken with mayonaise, barbeque dip isn't healthy is beyond me.

 

[jackoroe]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

Not a big fan of Paula's fare. I've always thought it too fatty. I wish her well in any event. Bourdain criticizing anybody's choice of food is pretty ridiculous. He drinks too much and smokes cigarettes. Not exactly a recipe for good health.

 

[Spiff]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I always knew Bourdain was a snob, so this is not surprising. I've seen him cook and eat lots of food that is not exactly healthy. His shit doesn't smell any better than anyone else's.

As for Deen, I respect her decision to continue to cook the same way she has been known for. She doesn't eat everything she cooks; she cooks for other people (she is a chef and owns her own restaurants). It's perfectly ok for her to cook what other people can and like to eat.

 

[gourami]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I thought high fat foods weren't bad for diabetics, but high glycemic foods. But yea, her foods are usually both.

 

[chrisw87]

Re: Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed High-Fat Food. (Anthony Bourdain Pissed)

I had a look at some of her recipes, and GROSS.

So much sugar and fat. I can handle high fat foods, look at the popular things in french cuisine like using duck fat and butter for many things, however her cooking just seemed so sickly sweet half the time.

I still want to try potato chips fried in duck fat though, mmmmm duck fat.