"Learning" from Paula Deen (what not to do...)

[WillBrink]

So what does eating fried foods, heavy desserts, and other junk get you? Diabetes, which well known "celebrity chef" Paula Deen now has.

And what did she do? Change her diet and get some exercise? No, she got a contract with drug company Novo Nordisk to push diabetes meds....Paula Deen wins the Brink Moron/sleazebag of the month award:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...nary-tale-for/

[chuckman]

Concur x 1 billion.

[Reagans Rascals]

is she the same one that had a chocolate fountain on her show for the guest to go up and engorge themselves on?

I believe with her southern accent, it would be pronounced "diabetus"

[williejc]

Her toes will go first and then her feet and maybe a leg or two, and after this progression is underway, the drug company will drop her as if she were Tiger Woods.

[mike boufford]

I've had to watch various minutes of the gray walrus when my wife decides to watch her show. The fake, overdone gyowgya accent just drives me nuts and then she pushes her recipes like they're gold. For crying out loud, she deep fried butter one time. I like butter, but that about made me hurl.

The lard ass got what she had coming.

[supersix4]

Of course the article holds her personally responsible for every case of diabetes in America today.

She made continued poor choices in her diet and it probably led to her current condition. Each individual is responsible for themselves. She did not hold a gun to her viewers heads and force them to eat like her. Americans can't say no, and when that lack of discipline leads to problems it has to be someone else's fault.

While Ray Charles could have seen this coming for her, she is only responsible for herself. The article seeks to make her the focus of evil, especially with the quote. "But Paula Deen’s cooking style has been so over-the-top unhealthy that she might as well have stuffed a lit cigarette into people’s mouths, too."

[sgtjosh]

So what does eating fried foods, heavy desserts, and other junk get you? Diabetes, which well known "celebrity chef" Paula Deen now has.

And what did she do? Change her diet and get some exercise? No, she got a contract with drug company Novo Nordisk to push diabetes meds....Paula Deen wins the Brink Moron/sleazebag of the month award:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...nary-tale-for/

While I whole-heartedly agree that she should have made some lifestyle changes instead of merely endorsing a medication...I love Paula Deen and think Anthony Bourdain is a pretentious ass-hat.

[Belmont31R]

The South has the highest obesity rates for a reason. Personally I can only eat high fat greasy food in every limited amounts. If I eat a meal made of fried food my stomach feels queasy and like I want to throw up.



But yes each person is responsible for their own eating habits.

[Reagans Rascals]

Of course the article holds her personally responsible for every case of diabetes in America today.

She made continued poor choices in her diet and it probably led to her current condition. Each individual is responsible for themselves. She did not hold a gun to her viewers heads and force them to eat like her. Americans can't say no, and when that lack of discipline leads to problems it has to be someone else's fault.

While Ray Charles could have seen this coming for her, she is only responsible for herself. The article seeks to make her the focus of evil, especially with the quote. "But Paula Deen’s cooking style has been so over-the-top unhealthy that she might as well have stuffed a lit cigarette into people’s mouths, too."

I do agree for the most part, however I do blame the societal acceptance of terrible advice squirted from the lips of the media for how the health standard in the US has plummeted from the fit and trim GI's of the 40s to the fat and sedentary blobs of today

but it is hard to decipher which came first.... fat society or unhealthy media promotions... sort of a chicken or the egg kinda deal...

if there wasn't an advertisement for some candy or soda or some ****in place like Golden Corral (I mean come the shit on... its even called a ****in Corral people... they aren't even trying to hide the fact that they cater to hugely obese people often mistaken for bovine)..... everywhere we look, those less empowered wouldn't fall victim time and time again... this is not the media's fault for creating the problem, but I do hold them responsible for enabling the problem to continue....

when you have an addiction, you have to stay away from it, but what the shit do you do when that addiction is food? and then all you see all day is Paula Deen and the like diabet'n it up.....

it's like a coc head watching a tv show about new and great ways to cook up coc....

why's it ok to ban cigarette advertising because of their harmful effects....when people have the choice if they smoke or not... yet any other thing completely terrible for you... often times orders of magnitude worse for you than cigs... alcohol for instance.... or soda or butter is perfectly fine any and everywhere

[J-Dub]

So what does eating fried foods, heavy desserts, and other junk get you? Diabetes, which well known "celebrity chef" Paula Deen now has.

And what did she do? Change her diet and get some exercise? No, she got a contract with drug company Novo Nordisk to push diabetes meds....Paula Deen wins the Brink Moron/sleazebag of the month award:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...nary-tale-for/

Welcome to America Mr. Brink. Isnt that what most lazy-fat-americans do?

Love Bourdain's show, and thoughts on Dean.