Paula Deen

I gotta tell you I am amazed at the brillance of Paula Deen.  For 15 or more years, she has been cooking with lard, butter, sugar, bacon, grease, and fat.  Some call it Southern Cooking.  She gains more and more weight.  She develops Type II diabetes, but instead of coming clean at that time and telling people oops -- I guess people should not eat this way,  she waits 3 years for a diabetes supply house to partner with and then struck a deal last year.  "Yes," she said, "I am compensated for my time,"  You bet, she is!  Now she is "educated" about the disease, as she says, but will continue to cook with lard, butter, sugar, bacon, grease and fat --but --as she claims she tells her audience, "Eat it in moderation."  She never told her audience to eat anything in moderation (well, maybe the last few months she has, but up until now, this was THE WAY to eat).  And what kind of "education" did Miss Paula get, anyway?

Actually I am not complaining about the food she prepared.  I loved some of her recipes when we owned the B&B.  Yummy pineapple upside down muffins, for example.  What makes me cross-eyed is her positioning--how she was "uneducated" about the disease and now, after 3 years, she has become educated enough to tell people about how to eat.  Give me a break!  Give me a double break.  This is all about money and we all know it, but I guess I just snapped reading about this con job today.   She was even lauded yesterday in the paper by the American Diabetes Association.

I used to work for the American Diabetes Association and learned quickly and easily how to manage food and exercise to control your insulin.  It ain't hard to "educate" yourself, ladies and gentlemen.   But I guess it took her 3 years!   Unfortunately, she is giving out the wrong message. . that it will take 3 years for someone to learn how to manage?

At any rate, I believe she is one of our country's greatest self-promoters.  She and the Donald should be best friends by now.  The world of health and politics as brought to you by the biggest cons in the biz. 

Thanks for listening.