You Are What You Eat of the Day: Speaking out on this morning’s Today Show about the reaction that followed the revelation that she suffers from type-2 diabetes, Butter Queen Paula Deen told Al Roker that “a few people were kind of mean about it and hold it against me.”
Deen announced on the Today Show in January that she was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes three years ago, but did not explain her reasoning for keeping the diagnosis to a secret.
Critics took issue with her proactive promotion of fatty, butter-rich foods — which continued despite her illness — and a shady endorsement deal she signed with diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk shortly before her announcement.
Deen’s long-time publicist Nancy Assuncao quit immediately following the launch of her employer’s Novo Nordisk-sponsored “Diabetes in a New Light” campaign.
Responding to disapproval of her actions, Deen told the Today Show she has “always encouraged moderation,” and reiterated her previous comment to Oprah: “Honey, I’m your cook, not your doctor.”
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this is fucking terrible. to cook food is to nourish. sure the taste of food helps determine what we eat, but it shouldn’t determine why we eat. as a cook, you are very much a doctor! we really need a doctor until we get sick, well if you eat well — you’re far less likely to get sick in the first place! as a cook you’re both an artist and a scientist — but the art is not in making food taste good, it’s in making good food taste good. this bitch is lazy lazy lazy.
