Shame on Paula Deen, the Queen of Butter
by Larry Cox on Jan. 20, 2012, under Uncategorized About the time Paula Deen was diagnosed with diabetes, she published “My First Cookbook,” a collection of recipes for children. As with her previous books, each page dripped with globs of butter and fats and laced with unhealthy amounts of sugar. When I received the cookbook from the Queen of Butter, I was appalled since I have Type 2 diabetes which has become a national epidemic.
I gave Deen a public spanking in the Tucson Citizen where I scolded her for encouraging children to prepare and eat her unhealthy recipes. With her announcement earlier this month that she has had diabetes for at least three years, one has to wonder why she had not made appropriate adjustments to her recipes, both those she publishes and those she demonstrates on her television broadcasts. Her surprise at the uproar reminds me of a drunk driver who is amazed that he or she has caused a traffic accident while over the legal limit.
Shame on Paula Deen. Shame on Deen for promoting high calorie, high fat, unhealthy recipes since it is quite clear what triggers much of the Type 2 diabetes in this country. Unhealthy diets.
Faster than you can drizzle a sugar-cured ham, here’s hoping that Deen will put down her glass of sweet tea — her beverage of choice she claims to drink throughout the day in her Savannah home — and do an about face on the recipes and advice she ladles out in her books and on TV.
Here’s hoping but “y’all” shouldn’t count on it.
