Speaking of healthy eating...

Brandienee85 · January 2012

Why is the Paula Deen thing such big news? I think we all figured she would be a diabetic sooner or later. If not, then most people who eat her food anyway...

LemonLover33 · January 2012

One too many shots of butter....

DowagerCountessofNJ · January 2012

I don't know either. She was on the Today show this morning and you can tell she's pissed off about it being news herself. She flat out said "I'm your cook not your doctor."

:::High five to Paula:::

She's right. I highly doubt she's making and eating meals like that every single day. She has TV shows and restaurants, I bet she hardly ever cooks outside of those two venues. Her dishes are best served once and a while and in very small portions.

MrsOjoButtons · January 2012

I'm not following it very closely, but it sounds like she is a paid spokesperson for her diabetes medication. While we can say many people inflict diabetes upon themselves, Paula's eating habits are in the public spotlight, so it sounds like people feel more justified in judging her. She's not on oatmeal commercials (diabeetus!), she's a walking tub of butter.

Sibil · January 2012

Because she hid it for 3 years and is now only going public when she gets to schwill for a drug.

Also, there's the whole being known for really unhealthy food and having that catch up with her.

Amaristella · January 2012

Sibil:
Because she hid it for 3 years and is now only going public when she gets to schwill for a drug.
Also, there's the whole being known for really unhealthy food and having that catch up with her.

I think that's the key. Nobody in their right mind is surprised by her diagnosis. The fact that she went straight from I have to diabetes to here's this drug I'm taking is what's getting her on the front page.

MrsAggie · January 2012

I'd go public about diabetes to make money off of my medication... I think her health is private unless she chooses to discuss it. That's why there is HIPAA.

Amaristella · January 2012

Kind of on the same subject, I found this link interesting. Maybe it's because I don't watch TV or really follow Paula too much in general, but I didn't realize her sons have been re-writing her recipes so to speak.

http://www.pauladeen.com/article_view/announcing_the_deen_brothers_take_it_lighter/

Oh, and for fun. Paula making cookies with Splenda.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/magical-peanut-butter-cookies/video/index.html

iluvmytxrgr · January 2012

I've known Mrs Paula for for several years. Like she said this morning, what we see her cook on her show is not how she eats everyday. What we see on tv is a bit of a character that was made for the show. In person, she doesn't speak with such a heavy accent. While she does indulge in classic southern food here and there, it isn't every meal or even every day. Mrs Paula has a very nice garden where she grown a lot of her own veggies. She lives right down the street from local docks where seafood is brought in every day. It is a huge part of her diet. I get why people are so snarky about it since the butter, the cream and the fried food are what they see on her show. How many of you know that she is also the celebrity spokes person for an organic chicken company? My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

Amaristella · January 2012

iluvmytxrgr:
I've known Mrs Paula for for several years. Like she said this morning, what we see her cook on her show is not how she eats everyday. What we see on tv is a bit of a character that was made for the show. In person, she doesn't speak with such a heavy accent. While she does indulge in classic southern food here and there, it isn't every meal or even every day. Mrs Paula has a very nice garden where she grown a lot of her own veggies. She lives right down the street from local docks where seafood is brought in every day. It is a huge part of her diet. I get why people are so snarky about it since the butter, the cream and the fried food are what they see on her show. How many of you know that she is also the celebrity spokes person for an organic chicken company? My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

My grandmother had a vegetable garden in her backyard. I don't know really if she had access to seafood, but she cooked all her meals at home. She couldn't drive or speak English so she only really ate what she knew which didn't include fast food or processed foods typically thought of as junk food. Still, my dad could tell for years that there were elements of her lifestyle that were simply unhealthy. He warned her but she never paid heed.

Well, she had a stroke at a bus stop one day. At some point she was also diagnosed with diabetes II although I can't remember if that was before or after. Anyway...she came to live with us and my parents got her slimmed down and her illness under control. A similar thing happened with her daughter, my aunt. Growing up my dad always preached that my grandma and my aunt didn't take care of themselves properly and that was why they got sick like that. (So young)

When I say things like "not being surprised" that she got sick and getting bent out of shape about focusing on Rx drugs it's not because I want to be mean about it. It's because I've been affected personally by lifestyle driven illness and it really irks me that so many intelligent people with so much knowledge at their fingertips refuse to make changes. It's a matter of deep frustration for me.

ESquared423 · January 2012

iluvmytxrgr:
I've known Mrs Paula for for several years. Like she said this morning, what we see her cook on her show is not how she eats everyday. What we see on tv is a bit of a character that was made for the show. In person, she doesn't speak with such a heavy accent. While she does indulge in classic southern food here and there, it isn't every meal or even every day. Mrs Paula has a very nice garden where she grown a lot of her own veggies. She lives right down the street from local docks where seafood is brought in every day. It is a huge part of her diet. I get why people are so snarky about it since the butter, the cream and the fried food are what they see on her show. How many of you know that she is also the celebrity spokes person for an organic chicken company? My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

And yet she also is a spokesperson for Smithfield Foods, a company that slaughters 30 million pigs each year, more than any other company. The fecal waste that they produce from their Virginia factory is a health hazard to the surrounding community. And they genetically manipulate their pigs for bigger profit. So what is it, Paula? Unhealthy, abusive, genetically-modified meat and deplorable conditions for pigs or organic, humanely raised free-range chickens?

She could have been using her celebrity to raise awareness for diabetes for the past 4 years, but is just now coming out with it since she'll be paid by a pharmaceutical company for her work. Obviously we'd all take advantage of an opportunity to make some money, but it is clear that Paula's passion is not about humanely raised animals or diabetes awareness, it is simply about how fat her paycheck will be.

AlouetteBeans · January 2012

iluvmytxrgr:
My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

I do hear this. But it is what people do when it comes to celebrities, it comes with the territory.

It annoys me most of the time when people make severe judgments/generalizations about celebrities in general, because we dont actually know them. Mostly my annoyance is with people ascertaining something about their mental health (like I had a professor who was dissecting Heath Ledger's mental health state when he died, and I was all "I dont think we can accurately or ethically diagnose someone we've never even met!" he didnt agree)

iluvmytxrgr · January 2012

ESquared423:

iluvmytxrgr:
I've known Mrs Paula for for several years. Like she said this morning, what we see her cook on her show is not how she eats everyday. What we see on tv is a bit of a character that was made for the show. In person, she doesn't speak with such a heavy accent. While she does indulge in classic southern food here and there, it isn't every meal or even every day. Mrs Paula has a very nice garden where she grown a lot of her own veggies. She lives right down the street from local docks where seafood is brought in every day. It is a huge part of her diet. I get why people are so snarky about it since the butter, the cream and the fried food are what they see on her show. How many of you know that she is also the celebrity spokes person for an organic chicken company? My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

And yet she also is a spokesperson for Smithfield Foods, a company that slaughters 30 million pigs each year, more than any other company. The fecal waste that they produce from their Virginia factory is a health hazard to the surrounding community. And they genetically manipulate their pigs for bigger profit. So what is it, Paula? Unhealthy, abusive, genetically-modified meat and deplorable conditions for pigs or organic, humanely raised free-range chickens?

She could have been using her celebrity to raise awareness for diabetes for the past 4 years, but is just now coming out with it since she'll be paid by a pharmaceutical company for her work. Obviously we'd all take advantage of an opportunity to make some money, but it is clear that Paula's passion is not about humanely raised animals or diabetes awareness, it is simply about how fat her paycheck will be.

Forget the fact that she hasn't been a spokes person for Smithfield for nearly a year or that she has donated over 30,000 pounds of food to our local food bank over the last couple years or that she has helped my small charity gather dresses for girls who can not afford to go to prom or that she has donated thousands to a local rescue group run by one of her employees or that she shows up to a local school once a week to bring g free snacks to a pre k class or many of the other things she does here that don't get taked about because she doesn't want to bring attention to those things. You're right, she is a complete money whore.

ESquared423 · January 2012

iluvmytxrgr:
ESquared423:

iluvmytxrgr:
I've known Mrs Paula for for several years. Like she said this morning, what we see her cook on her show is not how she eats everyday. What we see on tv is a bit of a character that was made for the show. In person, she doesn't speak with such a heavy accent. While she does indulge in classic southern food here and there, it isn't every meal or even every day. Mrs Paula has a very nice garden where she grown a lot of her own veggies. She lives right down the street from local docks where seafood is brought in every day. It is a huge part of her diet. I get why people are so snarky about it since the butter, the cream and the fried food are what they see on her show. How many of you know that she is also the celebrity spokes person for an organic chicken company? My point is, all these people who keep saying crap have no idea what they are talking about. It annoys me. She's a good person who does a lot to help this community.

And yet she also is a spokesperson for Smithfield Foods, a company that slaughters 30 million pigs each year, more than any other company. The fecal waste that they produce from their Virginia factory is a health hazard to the surrounding community. And they genetically manipulate their pigs for bigger profit. So what is it, Paula? Unhealthy, abusive, genetically-modified meat and deplorable conditions for pigs or organic, humanely raised free-range chickens?

She could have been using her celebrity to raise awareness for diabetes for the past 4 years, but is just now coming out with it since she'll be paid by a pharmaceutical company for her work. Obviously we'd all take advantage of an opportunity to make some money, but it is clear that Paula's passion is not about humanely raised animals or diabetes awareness, it is simply about how fat her paycheck will be.

Forget the fact that she hasn't been a spokes person for Smithfield for nearly a year or that she has donated over 30,000 pounds of food to our local food bank over the last couple years or that she has helped my small charity gather dresses for girls who can not afford to go to prom or that she has donated thousands to a local rescue group run by one of her employees or that she shows up to a local school once a week to bring g free snacks to a pre k class or many of the other things she does here that don't get taked about because she doesn't want to bring attention to those things. You're right, she is a complete money whore.

http://www.smithfield.com/paula/

^^Evidently she is still associated with them.

Lots of celebrities do charitable work "behind-the-scenes", as they should, as should anyone with a great amount of wealth. It is always important to give back. Good for her for doing those things, but yes, I believe it is pretty hypocritical to support companies with drastically opposite business practices and I think the diabetes media campaign is questionable.

Sibil · January 2012

PD being involved with organic chickens smacks of PR damage control. Maybe that's b/c I get a 100% disingenuous vibe from her. Telling me that her accent isn't really that thick doesn't diminish that.

I'm sure she doesn't eat like her show all the time, but she really plays up the fried butter aspect of it and never acknowledges how those are indulgences or cheats. She makes it normative, and that's the problem. I shouldn't have to get insider knowledge to find out otherwise. Her show isn't presented as a show of unhealthy food for those times when you don't care about health; it's not acknowledged that there is anything other than "I love buttah."

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