[Shocking] Paula Deen Has Type 2 Diabetes, Still Eats Fried Foods

Like A Breath · Jan 17, 2012

I don't think that many people were under the impression that diabetes is a death sentence.

pacman0590 · Jan 17, 2012

UPDATE: Paula Deen's type 2 diabetes were just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes!

GRENDEL · Jan 18, 2012

I like Bourdain, had no idea they'd been feuding, didn't know the world of celebrity chefs was so salty....

Anthony Bourdain Slams Paula Deen After Diabetes Announcement

No reservations is right.

Anthony Bourdain isn't done criticizing Paula Deen. The celeb chef and No Reservations star, who has bashed Deen's calorie-bomb recipes in the past, made an obvious dig at the Food Network star on Twitter Tuesday.

Shortly after Deen, 64, confirmed she has type 2 diabetes, Bourdain wrote, "Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later." A bit later, Bourdain shot down a headline provided by TMZ regarding the feud: "For the record: Never called anybody a 'diabetic scam artist.' TMZ's words. Not mine."

On The Today Show Tuesday, Deen -- famous for her cooking up sugary, fatty, deep-fried Southern concoctions on her TV shows and in cookbooks -- revealed that she was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, and is now a paid spokesperson for Novo Nordisk, which treats the disease.

Bourdain has blasted Deen in the past as the "most dangerous person to America" who is "proud of the fact that her food is f---ing bad for you."

Deen retorted at the time that Bourdain should "get a life."

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/anthony-bourdain-slams-paula-deen-diabetes-announcement-142036628.html

rhadamanthus · Jan 18, 2012

Feud is silly, but Deen withholding the diagnosis for three years and then revealing it to coincide with a paid position at a medical company that treats the disease is congressional level duplicity.

rhadamanthus · Jan 18, 2012

Gawker takes my spiel and goes off a bit. lol.

Paula Deen Is a Greasy Villain

Well well well, obesity rates in America are finally "stabilizing," at 112%. Kidding, it's not even 40%. We've managed to avoid a clinically obese majority. This is considered progress. Not thanks to you, Paula Deen.
We're not happy that Paula Deen has diabetes. I mean, one would have to be aggressively stupid not to guess that diabetes would probably result from a steady diet of deep fried stuffing on a stick and double chocolate gooey butter cake, but that's no national crisis, unless your name is Paula Deen. Considering the deep-rooted American middlebrow culinary affinity for butter, sugar, salt, and fry, Paula Deen was merely the embodiment of something much more fundamental than herself. She was the Kelly Clarkson of celebrity chefs—undistinguished, unoriginal, full of empty calories, and wildly popular.

Oh well. Somebody has to be that person. What Paula Deen has done in the past doesn't really bother us. Eat crap, get fat, get diabetes. Simple karma. Sure, it's bad that she encouraged millions of Americans to cook that unhealthy ****, but to each their own. Free will and whatnot. If a million Paula Deen fans want to give themselves and their families diabetes along with their hero, that's their business. Even the biggest health nut would have to admit that deep fried stuffing on a stick is probably tasty.

That's not the problem with Paula Deen. The problem with Paula Deen is that, after being diagnosed with diabetes—after being handed a big, flashing "Atone for your lard-soaked ways" sign by god—she chose not to humbly receive the message, in her nice little down home Southern Jesus-respecting way, and set about trying to change for the better, and perhaps to convince some of her acolytes to stop killing themselves the same way. Maybe become a vegetarian. Save a cow while you're at it. No. Instead, she decided to accept a ****load of money to endorse a diabetes drug. She managed to find a way to eschew responsibility for the damage she's done as much as possible, while also making money for herself. She managed to send the message: Continue eating my special fried bacon mashed potatoes, likely obese Americans. You can always shove some Victoza™ brand non-insulin injectible medication into your clogged veins when your body starts to rebel. Food is your drug, and when it starts to kill you for real, well, there are always... drugs.

Actual Paula Deen quote: "You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake." No, Paula. No cake for you. You've had quite enough cake. Have some quinoa. Cake is for people who've done their squats.
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macalu · Jan 18, 2012

It's not Paula Dean's responsibility to prevent you from getting diabetes. and if you want to live her lifestyle of fried chicken, german chocolate cake, and drugs...well, that's on you too.

Surfguy · Jan 18, 2012

macalu said: ↑

It's not Paula Dean's responsibility to prevent you from getting diabetes. and if you want to live her lifestyle of fried chicken, german chocolate cake, and drugs...well, that's on you too.
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that's what i was thinking. all these people are blaming her for hiding her health condition when you can obviously look at what she is cooking and determine if you want to eat it. it's not like ten year olds are making her recipes. if you can't look at it and say "i don't want to eat it because it's fried and bad for you", then you are either really gullible thinking it's going to be good for you because Paula is making it (and as far as you knew...she wasn't Type II before) or you are just plain as stupid as they come. did paula ever say she had a healthy cooking show? no, she is fat and she makes fattening meals. end of story.

"try my chicken fried steak ya'll...it's so good for you (NOT). follow that up with my dessert of chocolate cheesecake."

right...

BigM · Jan 18, 2012

I don't see what the problem with Paula Deen is. If someone wants to eat her food, then eat it. I hope no one was under the assumption that her recipes were of the diet variety.

Also butter can be a very healthy source of good fat, I wouldn't blame it on that.

DonkeyMagic · Jan 18, 2012

BigM said: ↑

I don't see what the problem with Paula Deen is. If someone wants to eat her food, then eat it. I hope no one was under the assumption that her recipes were of the diet variety.

Also butter can be a very healthy source of good fat, I wouldn't blame it on that.
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yeah, painting her as some villain is real stupid.

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