http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/dining/paula-deen-says-she-has-type-2-diabetes.html?_r=1

The article this post links to says explicitly “(Deen) has been trying to keep her condition a secret.”She may be coming forward now, after endless speculation in the tabloid media.So no, it wasn’t any of our business. But it was a great excuse to shame “fat lazy middle Americans,” wasn’t it? 

Do you guys think she eats every meal like the meals on her show? Get real. She probably doesn’t even develop the majority of the recipes on her show. She has people for that. Some Food Network exec figured out a long time ago that Paula’s personality plus a devilish amount of butter equals food porn ratings. So they play it up. If you look at her restaurant menu, you see a much better balance–and many of “Paula’s favorites” aren’t unhealthy at all.If you want to write a good post, check into the veracity of these claims–notice the flimsiness of the evidence on which people leapt onto the “Butter Queen Gets Diabetes” train. This says a LOT more about modern media than it does about Paula Deen.

Let’s try this in layman’s terms. Paula Deen’s health is none of your fucking business.

She’s a public figure. She makes a career of encouraging people to destroy their own health. She made her own health information public. She made it everybody’s business.

A Monastic Diet

Not very “Deen.”

That kind of real human can indeed end up some place they didn’t really want.

Well, until someone repeals biochemistry, “intellectuals” might have a problem with that.

It’s not like she was a Zen Macrobiotic role model.

I for one choose a life well lived, I eat what I want, I go 155mph on one wheel, I challenge life and live it to its fullest.  Surely riding my bike at 186mph occasionally is much more dangerous to my life than eating ever last thing Paula has ever made….I mean what the Funk is the point of living to be 100 years old if every last year was prude, sterile, pathetic, and homogenized?

I would much rather die doing something I loved than live not doing it.

8.  I suppose I should expect more from intellectuals but then again, No.  I suppose you think you are better than her because you are thin and would never eat things she cooks.  It is my contention that you are in fact not better than her, at least morally, for she would accept you for who you are and not pass judgment, especially in her time of need after finding out she has diabetes.  Nothing like a good kick in the teeth when you are down and out, pathetic, you should all be ashamed of yourself.

Come on, it’s pretty obvious from the first comment and the 49 likes (and Xeni endorsement) it received that the real issue here is “fat, lazy Middle Americans.” It’s a trifecta of social hatreds, all neatly expressed through an attack on Paula Deen. It’s revealing that you compare Deen to the Pope and diets to religion, since the war on obesity has the character of a moral crusade. 

Deen makes a living teaching comically rich recipes for Southern Food. As far as I know, she never pissed on anyone’s corpse. 

If I’ve learned one thing as a fat person, it’s that when you’re fat, people feel they have license to speculate on your diet, health, exercise and most importantly, your moral character.

Paula Deen makes her living by encouraging people to shovel huge quantities of corn syrup and shortening into their aptly-named pie-holes. She’s not some innocent victim of fat bashing; she’s the Pope of shitty, disease-causing diets. She can take the heat.

The first comment here takes the (delicious & fattening) metaphorical cake, by conflating Deen and her illness (the circumstances of which you frankly know nothing about) with everything we’re told is wrong with Americans– well, the fat ones who live in the middle of the country and watch a lot of TV. 

Certainly not the svelte coastal elites who simply make the media that the poor fat lazy losers consume.

It’s good to feel superior, ain’t it?

Spawn of Satan Smithfield.  Giant, evil corporatist “farming” lapdog… from hell.

It’s not karma, though. Karma is a mysterious supernatural payback, while this is just an absurdly unhealthy lifestyle followed to it’s natural conclusion.

Actually, karma is the effect part of cause and effect. Everything is karma unless you believe in effect without cause.

Serves her right I guess? Is that supposed to be my response?

Live by the doughnut, die by the doughnut. I’m pretty sure it’s in the Bible.