Cited: MSNBC

You only need to watch a couple of episodes of Paula Deen’s shows on the Food Network to know that you won’t be losing any weight if you follow her recipes. Now you might also have to wonder if her concoctions might also lead to diabetes, a reality that the TV food star is being forced to confront in her own life after recently being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Deen has been keeping her diabetes something of a secret for the past three years and now that its out in the open she is doing all she can to defend her recipes and with them her reputation. She claims that her motto has always been to enjoy everything she cooks in moderation, at one point joking with Oprah that she is her cook not her doctor. Experts in the medical community don’t say that what you eat will lead to diabetes but it can contribute to gaining excessive weight, which is a cause of diabetes. Other factors effecting whether or not you might be susceptible to diabetes are genetics, weight, and exercise – or lack of it to be more precise.

Paula Deen is famous for her Southern style cooking with excessive amounts of butter, fat, sugar, and other not-so-healthy ingredients. Her recipes, if followed and eaten on a regular basis can make it very difficult to maintain a healthy weight and for some can lead to what doctors call adult onset diabetes, or type 2 diabetes. But experts are quick to point out that its not what you eat but how much you eat when it comes to diabetes.

My take:

I have never been much of a fan of Deen and her recipes. I find them to be almost as off-putting as her phoney-bologna accent. You don’t have to be much of a chef to slog fat on top of sugar on top of grease. I hope they cancel her show.