Perhaps Paula Deen has found the drug she is “shilling” for to be an effective treatment for her diabetes, and wants to help publicize its benefits. Any chance at all in the whole fucking universe that this might be possible?
That was a pretty great movie, BTW. Under-rated.
You’re right. The money probably has nothing to do with it. I bet they had to beg her to take part in their publicity campaign, the website, the talk shows, the whole deal. And the reason she didn’t tell anybody earlier or without being paid for it was, um… give me a minute…
What she’s doing could help people and she may want that to happen, but let’s not bullshit about her motives.
Oh my god my head is exploding.
Paula Deen’s recipes are heavy on the fat AND THE CARBS.
Diabetes is a disease of insulin regulation. It is not caused by obesity. Obesity does not cause disease (although it can strain the joints for sure.)
Obesity does not cause heart disease or stroke either.
Obesity, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are conditions which are all caused and exacerbated by the same thing: diet. And none, most especially diabetes, are the result of too much FAT in the diet.
Paula Deen’s recipes are indeed over-the-top examples of eating really unhealthy food, but not because she loves butter. It’s because she loves butter in conjunction with boatloads of sugar, flour and other “might-as-well-be-sugar-as-far-as-your-body-is-concerned” foods like pasta, potatoes and corn meal. (Krispy Kreme burgers? Take away the Krispy Kremes and you’ll be fine. Stuffing on a Stick? It’s the stuffing, not the frying that’s the problem. Bacon wrapped corn? Lose the corn. And so forth.)
Stoid
Living on fatty meat, lard-fried chicken, baked cheese and cream (along with green veges and tuna and other less shockingly fatty foods) for almost a year - down 50 pounds, blood pressure normal, blood sugar excellent, blood fats better than ever.
There are other possibilities, none of us truly knowing Paula’s medical or pharmaceutical history, and those are some types of psych meds that are often used in “cocktails” to treat depression and agoraphobia. Many of them are known to precipitate or cause diabetes in otherwise healthy people or those without a history of diabetes.
… and then there’s something to consider, hypothetically, if it were true… which would be more scandalous, the fact that she has diabetes, or that happy-go- lucky, Cheery Southern, Paula Deen is on psych meds? Kind of a catch 22 and signifier of the stigma, yet attached to mental illness, if she chooses not to reveal that she is or was on psych meds.
Certain steroidal medications that are used for everything from asthma to arthtitis can also precipitate diabetes.
… and wasn’t Bourdain diagnosed with COPD or something? He might be the next candidate for diabetes as he ages and eventually has to take something steroidal. Then we could blame it on both his smoking and years of careless eating.
Glass houses and all…ya know, we all live in them.
Type 1 diabetic of nineteen years.
Don’t worry, you get used to it. After a while you won’t notice anything wrong, that’ll just be the right taste. Be glad you live somewhere where there are options - here in Sweden you don’t even get “normal” cherry coke. Some supermarkets import it in very expensive cans from the US and very, very rarely they’ll do the diet version.
I wish Paula no ill will - I had the chance to meet her at a celebrity chef event in Washington DC and her multi-million dollar personal success is no accident. She is warm, engaging, sweet as the sugar she bakes, and when she talks to you she has this way of talking to you like an old friend. I have no idea if her accent is exaggerated or not, but I know people who talk in the same manner and I live in Virginia.
However I think what bothered me the most about her announcement on the Today Show was her very deliberate and delicate dance around taking any personal responsibility for her health outcome. Nobody knows what caused her diabetes, but the FIRST thing any diabetic should look at is their lifestyle, exercise, and nutrition. To not bring that to the forefront, as someone who PROMOTES unhealthful cooking, is immeasurably irresponsible. There are truly MANY people in this country who are not quite smart enough to separate the reality of “Paula Deen’s cooking in moderation” and “Paula Deen wants me to eat like this all the time”. These are the same people who will then in turn point their fingers at a million other reasons for their physical maladies before looking at the root of their health problems, just because she did. Her attitude seems to be “This wasn’t my fault and this lovely little pill will make it all seem like a bad dream. Now how 'bout some poundcake, ya’ll!”
And yes, she and her husband were both looking unhealthfully overweight when I met them both 2 years ago, her husband especially. He just looked uncomfortable and unwell.
Bourdain makes a living smoking and drinking to excess on TV. You would think a former heroin addict would be more careful about promoting addictive substances. He also writes in his book about getting restaurant style flavor by putting butter on the food right before serving. He is a huge hypocrite.
That’s too bad. I seem to remember that he lost a bunch of weight a few years ago (he even actually looked kind of skinny when he appeared on her show at one point). I guess he put it all back on.
I’ve never understood the claim that diabetes is not curable. If all the symptoms are gone, why do they still say you have the disease? I had one or two too high blood sugar samples in my life, and now I’m a diabetic, even though, without even changing my diet, my blood sugar and insulin levels have been normal ever since. But on my chart it still says that I have diabetes.
Heck, I’ve even gained weight since that time.
For a start you have to decide which diabetes mellitus (and not insipidus) you are talking about. Type 2 you may have an argument, but Type 1 is definitely incurable. It is an autoimmune disease that destroys the cells in the body that create insulin. The only real hopes are transplants (which I believe have been tested) and stem cells (which is probably a long way off, if ever), which is only a cure in the same way that a liver transplant is a “cure” for liver disease.
In short, saying something sweeping about “diabetes” is probably never going to be particularly accurate.
Well, your situation sounds odd. But for most people, even if diet & exercise fixes the problem, their blood sugar still elevates if they return to their own habits or go off their meds. It’s not “curable” in that sense.
It’s also a progressive disease; many people find they can control it through diet/exercise up to a point, but eventually progress to medication of some sort.
A true non-diabetic can eat whatever they want, gain as much weight as they want, and their blood sugar never elevates. That’s “cured” and most people, once diagnosed, never can get back to that.
As usual, you said what I thought only better and earlier.
Type 2 Diabetes can be controlled by diet and exercise. But that doesn’t mean it’s cured.
Should you ever get really sick, become injured, have surgery, it’s important for your doctors to be aware that you’ve been diagnosed with Diabetes. Under stress, blood sugars can go completely haywire, and be difficult to control for quite some time. And all the while they are out of control, damage is happening to your tissues.
You are also more vulnerable to infection, and the infection can be harder to cure.
~VOW
I JUST SAW AND HERD ON ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, video footage of Paula Deen eating a Hamburger and Fries on an aside moment on a “Celebrity Cruise” within her diagnosis. They were, as always, casting aspersions on whether or not her indulgence was a “Diabetic Friendly Meal”. Then I heard Mr. Baldwin pronounce “puerile” as “puh-were-ile” on CNN tonight. It is “pure-isle” Mr. baldwin Brother. Ignorance abounding.
Words with friends, indeed. I have taken you down a peg.