[southern rock]

Forget Novo Nordisk. Show your loyal fans how not to need diabetes drugs.

For me, this is the money sentence in the article. People need to understand that they can reverse diseases caused by the typical American diet by simply moving to a whole food, plant based diet. Let's see the shill, Paula Deen try that for a year.

[Irenic]

Screw that. I want butter, pork and salt!

If my health changes or my loved ones, my opinion will change.

Until then, my habits and that of my family doesn’t change because some TV person[s] develops an issue.

Actually, a very lean pork cut is better than a chicken breast and we are not and don’t intend to go vegetarian.

Gah! This is so annoying. Pfffft! on them and their whoring of this story!!!

[southern rock]

[alnick]

"I could make a similar dish that would look much better (hers was murky from all the butter), taste much better (fresh, clean flavors from a small amount of extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, dry vermouth and herbs), with a fraction of the fat and calories."

Then get your own show. :-)

[lonestar]

My mother ate what she wanted to and cooked with butter, fried stuff...and had 3 pills left from the first Rx for her heart...the only Rx she took, ad she lived to be 94.

My 101 year old aunt ate what she wanted, when she wanted.

[EBH]

Why Your Doctor May be Wrong about Meat

http://www.theiflife.com/why-your-doctor-is-wrong-about-meat/

Opinion: Meat gives you colon cancer; Reality: Misinformed and wrongly drawn conclusions. – I think what it needs to state is that a diet higher in processed meats (high in chemicals and preservatives), high in unstable (polyunsaturated vegetable oils)/destructive (trans)fats along with a low nutrient/antioxidant (fruit/veg) diet can increase the amount of possible destruction to the colon lining and cancer.

[listenhillary]

Butter doesn’t cause diabetes.

She could cut out the processed white flour and sugar and help her and her viewers. She should start butchering small animals on her show. It would be useful.

[Oztrich Boy]

"One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England....The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity." - George Orwell

[Vaquero]

Yes....we can all eat tofu...and graze like cattle.

[Vaquero]

Hibbeln (1998) pointed out that Palaeolithic nutrition was probably low in saturated fats and high in polyunsaturated fats (the reverse is true today). Therefore, our ancestors consumed more omega-3 fatty acids (arachidonic acid, docosahexaenoic acid) and these are the major determinants of synaptic membrane fluidity. Hibbeln proposed that the move from being vegetarian and scavenging for meat to eating fish (rich in these fatty acids) promoted the sudden burst in intellectual/technological/cultural achievement about 35,000 years ago. Prior to that our ancestors had achieved relatively little.

[duckman]

Why blame Paula, she is a business woman. What ever happened to personal responsibility for your own diet and health? JMHO

[The Great RJ]

Sure a more healthy diet makes a difference, but that is between Paula Dean and her doctor. The government nannies and liberal elites who think we are all too stupid to make the “right” decisions about our lives are just waiting for the chance to implement more control by dictating what we eat. What Paula Dean eats or does not eat is none of our business.

[Minn]

What a pompous ass Andrew Weil is.

[libertarian27]

People started getting heftier when the food pyramid came on the scene in the 80's. Bread, pasta and cereal companies loved it! The population ate it up.

That, and the widespread use of remote tv channel changers :>), contributed to the widening of the population. (and a host of other related activities-or lack there of)

[Yaelle]

It’s not the butter, it’s the sugar and grains. Caveat: the butter needs to come from clean, healthy animals.

If she gives up all sugar and starchy carbs, especially wheat, max 1 fresh fruit serving a day, her diabetes would be gone in a short time. She can eat plenty of healthy fats.

[vmivol00]

If you don’t like Paula Deen...change the channel. Quit trying to police everyone’s lifestyle just because you don’t like it.

[matginzac]

I would never in a million years tell anyone what to eat - their business, their problem. I just don’t want to pay for their consequences, just like heroine addicts or gay bath house frequenters...
I can’t stand Dean because she lays on the “southern” schtick too much, is an endorsement whore and lastly but most important, is a HUGE lib dim...
the ultimate irony was when she had Moochelle on her show!

[mountainlion]

Who gave CNN the right to overbear on what a person does? Don't teach people southern cooking if you have a health problem. CNN change your propaganda style because you you are communists pushing Socialism you are not a news network!

[Keith in Iowa]

What are you, a diet/food nazi? Do what you wish, but don’t dictate what others do if it differs from you.

[FrankR]

Someone should name CNN the "meddling" network.

Paula Deen is a prime example of someone starting a small business and turning into something good.

She cooks Southern "comfort" food; it's food we like here in the South, and we don't need northeastern liberals trying to meddle in it, at all.

Maybe some of that stuff isn't "good for us", but as free, American individuals, we are damn tired of liberals trying to control what we eat, what we say, and how we live.

It looks like to me that the debate audience should have shown CNN and John King that we are tired of their crap...hell, their ratings should show them that too.

If I want to eat butter, I'll eat butter; if it shortens my life by a few years, so be it, it's better than trying to live to 100 by eating bean sprouts and toufou.

[RegulatorCountry]

Paula Deen’s popularity has a great deal to do with people being tired of the food police. She's un-PC. We aren't interested in Michelle Obama’s hypocritical blandishments to do as she says, not as she does. We actually like our traditional foods, our comfort foods.

The problem is quite clearly not the foods we eat, since the bizarre rise in obesity and related illnesses coincides with the rise in so-called “healthy” eating. A too-sedentary lifestyle also arose more or less simultaneously, which is no coincidence.

Just get up off yer big butt and burn it off like our forefathers (and mothers) did. And, eat what you like, within moderation. That is the answer, not parsimonious, self-appointed food priests deigning to save us from ourselves, with the latest fad diet that ultimately proves harmful. Then, the silly cycle repeats with the next questionable concoction.