The finger pointing at the Southern goddess of buttah and sugar has been nonstop since she announced that she hastype 2 diabetes. Shes gotten little sympathy.
Famous globetrotting chefAnthony Bourdainpounced quickly, tweeting this snarky gem: Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
Deen virtually hid inside her home for nearly two decades. She had a high school education and a debilitating fear of public places. She learned to cook with the ingredients placed closest to the exit doors at the grocery. Prone to panic attacks, she could barely get herself inside the store.
The ct that she appears to be in denial about how to address her health condition is perfect. America is in denial.
Deen has said she will tweak her recipes, but just barely. Shes giving up sugar-laden sweet tea. And she waxes on about moderation, but she hasnt exactly renounced any of her most mous dishes (e.g., the hamburger, bacon and fried egg sandwich served between a sliced glazed donut).
Obesity rates in the U.S. have been rising in recent years among all class levels. But they are disproportionately linked to poverty.
In ct, her eating and cooking habits are deeply entwined with her earlier struggles in life. Deans parents both died by their early 40s, leaving her to raise a younger brother. She was married at 18, pregnant with her first child the next year and later became a divorced single mother with two young sons. She had $200 in her pocket.
Her culinary ascent began with a sandwich catering business she ran out of her kitchen. She sent her two sons out for delivery and sales.
Deen is an easy enough target for ridicule, and not just because she glories in tty extravagance in her cooking. Shes mous and rich but clearly not to the manor born.
In that, Deen just might serve as the perfect pitchwoman.
What gets Bourdains cabrito (baby goat, a delicacy in many of the regions of his travels) is that Deen exemplifies the lifestyle that is a known contributor to this form of diabetes. Her forte is overindulgence in high-t and high-calorie and high-carbohydrate foods. And then you go back for seconds, because Deen is all about the buffet.
Doctors are also the silent partner of the druggies because the give drugs rather than telling people the illness can be reversed naturally. Paula Deen has a bigger problem, the drug she is going to sell cost $ 500 dollars a month and was beaten by a $ 20 diabetes diet
To explain the disease, Deen offobesity linked to diabetes in childrenered this: The thing that can bring on diabetes is stress, and Ive had my share of stress. It can be your age, it can be your race, it can be your lifestyle, it can be from lack of exercise, and it can certainly begenetic.
The Vassar-/Culinary Institute of America-educated Bourdain, like most Americans, would do better to reflect on ways we can help people, especially the poor, come back from the brink of obesity. Because heres the bottom line: Obesity is killing us, literally and financially. Its a medical crisis. Obesity is linked to chronic diseases that make up an estimated 70 percent of all health care costs.
You might say Deen is the poster woman for one of Americas greatest and least understood curses: the link between poverty,obesityand health issues like diabetes. She could be the Malboro Man for unhealthy eating. Recall that several of the men who portrayed the advertising icon died oflung cancer, but not before they spoke out against smoking, eventually seeing the connection. (Deens a smoker, too.)
Diabetes is a silent killer, partly because many of the more than 25 million Americans with the disease dont know they have it. Another 79 million are considered prediabetic.
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If she did, she wouldnt be Paula Deen. And her ardent ns -- people who stand to learn from her newfound health challenges -- would disengage.
OK. But I think it was probably the lard, too.
obesity linked to diabetes in children Paula Dean,Dont expect Paula Deen to go cold turkey on the hoecakes.
Deen is an easy enough target for ridicule, and not just because she glories in tty extravagance in her cooking. Shes mous and rich but clearly not to the manor born.
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But changing these complicated patterns -- which is to say, getting millions of people through the denial and getting them to change their behavior -- will take time and effective messaging, not snotty putdowns.
Dean likely has a lot in common with many of the two-thirds of American adults and one-third of school-aged children who areoverweightor obese. And the contributing ctors -- poverty, lack of access to fresh foods and poor eating habits -- do not change quickly.
Sadly people are not smart. No one needs a drug for Type 2 diabetes but the drug makers still take in 3 Billion a year from Type 2 diabetes.
Deen fessed up to having the condition in conjunction with announcing that her latest gig will be a pitchperson for the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. She takes the companys product Victoza to help control the diabetes.
Meanwhile, Bourdain was serving up French re at New Yorks Les Halles.
My own food tastes run more to the Bourdain end of the spectrum. I own his cookbooks. Deens do not appeal. And, yet, I dont think his attitudeobesity linked to diabetes in children Paula Dean is helpful on this issue.
