Shocking: Paula Deen Diagnosed with Diabetes!
Everyone’s favorite deep fryer, Paula Deen, was shockingly diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes. The Daily reports that the butter-loving Food Network star can’t eat her own high-calorie dishes anymore. The Southern chef is known for her larger than life attitude and her love for all things deep fried, but her diagnosis restricts her from these foods.
Deen has been mum about having the disease, which inflicts 26 million people in the U.S. She has had the disease for awhile, but has not revealed this for obvious reasons. She has written five best-selling books that are filled with recipes of fatty and sugary foods–telling America she suffers from diabetes would be bad for her public image.
Until a pharmaceutical company offers her a deal that is better than butter.
Deen, 64, is teaming up with drug company, Novartis, to promote one of the medications she uses to keep her disease in check. This multi-million dollar deal was enough to make the Georgia native come clean about her illness.
Pushing fatty foods and then pushing the drugs that you need to take as a result of a lifetime of bad eating? Only in America.
Something tells me that Deen might have to change her ways. Deep frying marshmallows is not only disgusting, it is hypocritical and dangerous.
In August 2011, Travel Channel host Anthony Bourdain hilariously called Deen the “most dangerous person in America.” The “No Reservations” star has been outspoken about his disdain for Deen. “She should think twice before telling an already obese nation that it’s OK to eat food that is killing us” he said.
Deen has gone to great lengths to appeal to the “average American,” but in reality, she is a multi-millionaire who takes advantage of America’s greatest vice: obesity. There should be greater transparency about the effects of poor food choices.
While she is getting even wealthier off of diabetes, many Americans who are suffering from the disease cannot afford the medical bills that come alone with it. Let’s hope Deen does the right thing and starts promoting healthy and affordable food to her large audience.
