Paula's show is entertainment, not education, not politically correct. She does not have a responsibility to teach people about health or science; she is there to entertain. She knows her audience, and gives them what they want.

I enjoy her show, but understand that I can not eat that way every day without killing myself. But when I want to treat myself to something over the top, Paula's got the goods.

I can speak only for myself, and I shall do so. I have type 2 Diabetes. I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to be a moderate diner. The cause of my diabetes is, interestingly, not diet. No. It is herbicide exposure, specifically a witches' brew of 2-4-D, 2-4-5-T, dioxins, and assorted toxins all known under the umbrella name of Agent Orange to which I was exposed on a daily basis while I was in Viet Nam. That said, I still try to live in moderation. While some of Paula Deen's recipes are too rich for my tastes, I find a lot of them to be simply delicious. People should instead take a closer look at Anthony Bourdain's taste in food: it can tend to the bizzare. Besides, she gets such a kick out of live that you can't help enjoy her and her show. You go, girl! Too bad you're spoken for.

This comes as no shock, but not to worry though, Type 2 diabetes is preventable and can be reversed with hard work and dedication. Type 1 is far more severe and is not associated with obesity or lifestyle choices. Type 1 is a auto-immune disease that requires patients to inject insulin to live, so I yawn when I hear about another person who is overweight being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. There's no place for sympathy for type 2 diabetics, because factual scientific evidence has shown that it is brought on by themselves. Type 1 diabetes is a 24/7 lifestyle that doesn't have the luxuries of type 2 diabetes, and type 1 cannot be prevented or reversed. I roll my eyes when I hear a obese individual complain about their type 2 diabetes. My advice to them is to try and walk a day in the life of a type 1 diabetic, because there are no days off. I would love to see the percentage of type 2 diabetics who actually make a concerted effort to lose weight, exercise, and eat healthy, and the percentage of type 2 diabetics who don't put forth enough effort. Quit your bitching

To John Sampso: I have Type-2 diabetes and beg to differ with you! I have it from stress and maintenance medications that I must take on a daily basis. Not all, Type-2 diabetes is brought on by the same thing, every person who has it.... is different!! I also take insulin shots, at night, before going to bed. YES, every night. I've been trying to lose weight to reverse my Type-2 diabetes but there is only one thing wrong, I have a broken hip and can't walk; they say exercise is the best medicine... to walk, exercise regularly and control your diet... I can't waik. OK, I could get my hip fixed, however, I have no insurance; and I'm not bitching! I just wanted to clear the air here a little bit. I don't want you to think for one moment, that all diabetics, whether 1 or 2 are the same, because we are not!! And I am not bitching!!

John: Who's bitching? Sounds like you're doing it, not I. Am I denigrating Type 1 diabetics? No. They have my sympathy. Type 2 is preventable? Perhaps I should have avoided my exposure to Agent Orange, but it was part and parcel of being a FAC (Forward Air Controller) in Southeast Asia (including North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). Oh, I guess that's right; I shouldn't have gone to Southeast Asia. Fat chance, fella! It was my duty. As an Officer in the Air Force, I was considered a volunteer for whatever assignment came my way. Incidentallay, you'd be amazed at the diseases that Agent Orange can cause. More cancers than I can shake a stick at, Type 2 Diabetes, and a bunch of other conditions. I repeat my response: who's bitching? I merely made a factual observation, and you went off the handle into fancy. Type 2's symptoms can be reversed, but not the condition. Yawn away. Twit!

Let Anthony Bourdain concoct his fare and sell it to the Barbara Walters of the world at $600.00 a meal. I grew up on typical "Paula Deen" fare. Mother, Dad, 6 young'uns, and 2 uncles always at home. Then there was my 7 older, married, brothers and sisters and their young'uns, some or all of whom were always hanging around. We were farmers. Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Chickens, cattle, Hogs, Peaches, apples, pears, Cherries, Pecans, Walnuts,forgot the Strawberries just to name some. Early gardens, regular gardens and late gardens for our food and to sell. My mother was an excellent cook, and Gwad did she cook. We all ate all we could pack in. 3 meals a day. Aye Gwad!, we needed it for fuel. Even then, none of us ever had any fat on us. My father was 6'1" and never weighed more than 170 lbs. Now, having said all this, I agree, if those of us yet living ate that way now it would surely kill us. I don't. I generally do eat some of the same food, when I can find the groceries to make the dishes, but even then I eat very sparingly. If I get hungry between meals, I have found 2 bites are better and more satisfying than a gut full. Same at mealtime. Also, all those who can, get up off your lazy ass and walk or trot around the house or room. Get tired? Sit down and rest, then get back up and do it again. We don't have to eat like hogs. We need to eat only the amount we need for the fuel required for the work we do. Aye Gwad I like Paula Deen and the dishes She cooks. Doesn't hurt either, that She's one of them beautiful "Georgia Ladies" like my Mother and my Wife. Aye Gwad!, I'll hush now.

Some healthcare systems are only too happy to label type 2 "the condition" in order to use the term 'chronic' to label us for higher treatment rates. When I was diagnosed I took immediate action. I improved my diet and excersize on a daily basis. My type 2 was brought on by contracting gestational diabetes while pregnant. My labs are all normal but I never will be according to my medical records. My point is do not be so quick to judge==I am lucky enough to have the ability to control my diabetes. Though I am persistent, I know I'm lucky. Others are not.

Well now that y'all have shown that Type 2 diabetes is due to everything EXCEPT being overweight, we can all eat what Paula Deen espouses. Oh wait a minute. You probably do. Thousands of people can get off their meds and diets. They can all weigh as much as you do. Boy, are all the doctors faces red.

my pov: you should really stop trying to be sarcastic; you're not very good at it. Instead, you come across as merely petulant and childish. If you had bothered to actually read and then digest the postings above yours, you might have found that your entire post had already been addressed and laid to rest. As I said to John Sampso: twit!

To my pov - You are an ass. And you may not be overweight, but I'll just bet that you are ugly and stupid. Weight can always be lost, your obvious problems, however, cannot.

@JohnSampso So how do you explain me? I was diagnosed with type II diabetes despite the fact that I am at a healthy weight for my height, eat what most people would consider a healthy diet (use olive oil, eat salads, eat fish etc), and exercise 5 days a week. Yeah my doctor act surprised at my diagnosis. I asked him what i needed to do and he said, "well normally we tell people to lose weight" but in your case you are just going to need to watch your carb intake, keep exercising, and take metformin. If type II diabetes is caused by eating bad and being fat than what happened here? Maybe you should do some more reading before you pop off saying that type II diabetics shouldn't get any sympathy.

You may as well eat and enjoy yourself because no one is going to live forever. Who would want to be 90 and not be able to do anything worthwhile except breath air that someone else could be breathing? Not me. Actually, there are too many people in the world anyway. So, enjoy.

Paula Deen is healthier than most of us Americans. Yes, she uses butter, but have you noticed that she makes most of her food from scratch? It is not processed like say McDonalds and take out foods we all eat, so I am not sure why she gets so much heat from how she eats.

Thank you, Debbie Blanton. You said what I would like to have said, but you said it nicer, and with fewer words. Thank you again.

To all of you who spoke in support of my contentions, and who added so much more than I could have thought to say: let's keep people aware that type 2 diabetes is not just a disease of bad life style. No. It has many, many causes, and can be as devsatating as type 1. To those who just look disapprovingly at us and say we eat too much, or wrong, or have the wrong life-style, I say: braack! (Bronx cheer. Raspberry for those who are culturally challenged.)

Paula, you go, girl! Show us how to live, and to live well!

You and a lot of others are trying to pretend that Paula Deen's excessively unhealthy recipes are no big deal. I have seen her on cooking shows and her overuse of butter and deep-frying is criminal. Regardless of how people get type 1 or type 2 diabetes, it is a serious disease that can result in disability and death. There needs to be a campaign to get AWAY from this type of gastronomic suicide. Paula Deen--do the right thing!

@John sampso, you need to get your facts straight before you judge others! Like annsrum, my T2 diabetes was not caused from being overweight...I weigh 127 lbs! Yes, most people who have T2 are overweight (80%), but for the rest of us, it is caused by other things (genetics in my case). So next time, do your research before you open your mouth to criticize others unfairly!

I love Paula Deen. She makes me laugh and I love her show. I am fat and do not have diabetes, heart problems, high colosterol or anything else. My doctor shakes his head at me, I think he wants to give me a death sentence everytime I go in. Do I eat the kind of food Paula cooks? I would if she made it. Would I eat Anthony B's...no, I saw him do stuff with bugs...please bring on the butter. Is bugs or a lot of butter good for you? No but if you don't want to eat it. don't. No one is forcing you to. Watch her show because she is a wonderful, funny, lady. She doesn't make you eat her stuff, in fact she backs her son's show "Not my Mamma's Cooking" 100%. Stop complaining that she needs to change her ways...you go change the channel and leave my Paula alone! By the way nobody mentioned you can get T2 also just by being old.

Who the hell cares about anything this loud mouthed beotch has to say. Every year she wants to sell another book so she gives us a new revelation about herself; her affair with a married man, her phobia(s), the way she raised her children, blah, blah, blah, in truth, she is nothing more than a spokesperson for herself; her rah, rah, cheerleader. Fact is, take your medication, eat responsibly and exercise daily. That's it folks. We don't need advice from Paula Deen, even though she has made a pronouncement as though we now all know what to do because she said so. The truth is, for some with Type 2 diabetes, eating right and exercise for many can be all that is needed; they can do without medication. Their doctors will let them know what is right for them. I hardly think we need a so-called celebrity to tell us all what to do. Crap....Mary Tyler Moore has been living with diabetes for as long as I can remember and I've never seen her on the Today Show telling us all what to expect and what to do. Unless someone has broached the subject, specifically, with her, she has pretty much kept it to herself. Wish big mouth Deen would do the same.

Paula Deen's recipes are NOT traditional Southern cooking. Her cornbread, for example, contains both sugar and flour --- both unnecessary ingredients that just load up the calories while subtracting from the flavor. We call yer version "yankee cornbread." Her "Southern" fried chicken is just as bad. It calls for a cup of salt, 1/4 cup of garlic powder and a cup of hot sauce and is fried in 9 cups of peanut oil. Not only is it unhealthy, but who can swear that it is actually chicken --- all you can taste is grease, salt and hot sauce. I started to say that I wouldn't feed it to a dog, but I really wouldn't --- it would be animal abuse.

Too many of her recipes start out with canned soup or cake mix or other unhealthy ingredients. Her "Famous House Seasoning" is just 50% salt, 25% black pepper, and 25% garlic powder and no other ingredients. She continuously uses it in addition to massive amounts of salt and often other salt-containing ingredients such as bouillion cubes. This kind of vast salting of food, she contends, is very Southern, but in reality it just leads to half-vast tasting food.

Now if anyone wants REAL Southern recipes, especially for the staples like cornbread, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, green salad, etc ---- drop me an e-mail. I can give you recipes that have been around longer than Paula Deen and are actually much better for you that her greasy salty junk. It is little wonder that she is obsese and has diabetes. As they say, you are what you eat.

And I enjoy Anthony Bourdain, and especially his new Layover show. And what he says about Paula Deen is spot on. She obviously does not know how to cook and deludes others into eating her concoctions thinking they are eating something authentic.

Bordain obviously has no concept about real American southern cooking. I grew up learning how to prepare southern food with my grandmother. It may not be the most healthy diet on the planet, but as far as taste is concerned, I would rather eat Ms. Paula's cuisine anyday of the week as opposed to "gourmet" cooking. I was raised on catfish, grits, and country ham with strong red eye gravy made with coffee so black it could walk. Mr. Bourdain should be worried about liver cirrhosis from all that drinking he does and the cigarettes he sucks down. My granddaddy lived till 93 and my grandma lived to 82. They ate southern cooking all their lives including bacon, ham, grits and homemade buttermilk biscuits on a daily basis. Paula's right - not everyone can afford fancy ingredients and top prime beef. And after all - to quote my beloved grandma, God rest her soul - "grits is food in a poor man's house." Bourdain needs to get real about what the working man can afford.

Her fried chicken does NOT have 1 cup of salt! You use 1 cup of salt in her House Seasoning and you season the chicken with it! Not use the whole amount!!

Paula Deen's recipes are not the kind of food you eat every day or every meal. I doubt she eats like that every meal. She is an entertainer and she entertains! And does very well at it!

Just watching Paula will give you diabetes, if not she will certainly make you puke.

I used to watch her on TV....until I realized how she cooked! All the fat and sugar is sickening!

Right on Jeff!!

Chris-749391, I could not agree with you more, born and raise in Savannah and we as a whole do not eat like that. Its kind of embarassing to be honest. All her main dishes can be made better by most locals and I personally prefer the flavor of evoo and spices instead of butter, fatback, and lard in my cooking. PS we dont really talk like that either, thats more of a "middle ga" accent than a Savannah accent. Most locals will tell you she is not a very nice person if they know her personally by the way, its all show so why would she care about anyones health?

You know what? With Paula's menu items, they can be changed to make it more healthy. How do I know? because I do it. I'm retired military, had a heart transplant & got Type-2 from medications. This Anthony a$$hole? His recipes are too weird to try any substitutions. He can kiss my a**, and so can the other weird, bizarre a$$wipes here that think they know better than the rest of us. BTW, anytime you snotty morons want to crawl up on a stainless steel table and get your heart cut out, and replaced with a dead person's gift, go ahead, or if you want to take the place of a Vietnam vet who sacrificed more than you would/could ever know or withstand, go ahead. We'll see how much crap you talk then. Until then, FO.

To Fred Craven - Bless you for your service to our country. I'm sorry you were left with the health problems that, sadly, so many veterans have. To those of you who find Paula Deen's cooking "sickening", my advice to you is don't watch her show!

Just did a look-see on her website for fried chicken recipes. Looking at the top three recipes that came up in the search, I do not see ingredients that are any different than any other fried chicken recipe. I'm not a huge fan of her cooking style, especially all the butter she uses, but you have to be fair in your assessment.

Agreed. I am sick of hearing this. People have a choice to eat it or not. Moderation is key in everything. I love hot fudge sundae's, but I know if I had them all the time my back side would be huge so I choose not to indulge very often. I have eaten at her restaurant in Savannah and it has many choices to choose from and was very tasty!

I have made some of her recipes but it's not like you eat them everyday. I've learned to modify a few of them too where there isn't as much of the 'butter'.

I'd much rather be eating many of her foods being they have fresh ingredients than the many thousands of boxes of chemical laden foods supermarkets sell.

As for Bourdain -- he should go back to the mid east and eat his bugs. He's an idiot.

Wow, must we bring politics to the argument. Will the madness ever stop? Since when did encouraging healthy eating habits in children become a bad thing?! oh, I guess when it is encouraged by our First Lady. One would think this should be a pretty bipartisan goal for our children which the Flotus has done with energy and fun way for American kids. Truth is Hating others kills the heart, faster than fried foods and butter! There are lots of cold dead-hearted hateful judgemental people walking around today!

I don't begrudge anyone for sharing healthy or not so healthy eating! What I eat is my choice, and I live with the consequences (every roll & dimple of it). Period!

You go girl! Couldn't have said it better myself!

My motto: We all gonna die someday, and OMG what a delicious way to go!!!!

you don't go 'deliciously'....you go painfully.

Tylene, your post is the only intelligent post so far. Type 2 diabetes is mostly genetic. I have it as do many members of my family, some thin as toothpicks and others moderately over weight, but no one who is obese. The key thing is getting it diagnosed early, and then managing your blood sugar. Fat does not raise the blood sugar, but carbohydrates do. So you have to be careful about the amount of carbs you eat at each meal. I wish Paula Deen all the best!

I have type 2 diabetes, most people in my family have it. Some now have type 1 diabetes,result of genetics we have weak pancreases.

Diabetes may run in some families, but there are thousands of others in this country who have chased it and tackled it to the ground in order to get it.

Firstly, you don't know if she'll make millions from the arrangement. Contracts are not disclosed but whatever you've read are rumors.

I'd much rather see her as the face of the drug knowing she has the disease, is using the drug and can speak with knowledge of it. I have trouble seeing for example the Kardashians slap their face of products as they do just sell their 'name', that they don't truly use or their numerous lines of clothing (made in mid-east sweatshops as there are investigations ongoing). You can add J-Lo to the list just recently in a car ad where she wasn't even driving it. She tried punking the public and she got caught.

The point people are making is that if you don't like it, don't cook or eat it.

The very first time I watched her I thought "god this can't be good for you" and she said "I'm not a doctor, I'm a cook. I don't claim my food's good for you - just that it tastes good". After that, I respected her.

People like to blame others for everything. She has not promoted her food as health food that I've ever seen. Quite the contrary. So get over it, grow up and be responsible for you own decisions in life.

you obviously are a yankee.

I saw a bit on some daytime show where someone from the audience asked her about her personal health and her cooking. She made a comment about how she cooks healthier food now that she's older, and without missing a beat, she started on a recipe in which the first ingredient was a cardiac arrest.

Her food is killer good, but definitely not something I'd eat every day. Thanks to her, I was able to recreate a recipe of my grandmother's!

Laverne and LaLa: this Southern male agrees with you both! I simply love traditional Southern cooking, the kind my mother and grandmothers made. Simple, and flavorful. Perhaps not the greatest for your health, but my mother and my grandmothers all lived well into their 80's. Genetics? Well, yes, but who knows what else? I am a 70-year old diabetic heart patient who suffers from severe sleep apnea. Agent orange is documented to cause both type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. I have both. My apnea is both obstructive and central (where the brain fails to tell the lungs to inhale). I'll probably live to 90.

Joshuatree48: As you can tell from my comments, I am a Southerner. My roots go back to the 17th century in South Carolina, and to the early 18th century (or late 17th) in North Carolina. If I don't like it, I don't eat it.

Right on Janetfs. Modify it a bit. She is great.

Her body her choice right?

her choices cost us all with increased health care costs.

I hope you don't belive in Karma. You are glad something bad is happening to someone and tt sounds like you are glad it happend because she is irritating. Sounds like Karama may come back around to you too i hope not.

@Mr. Blue - You just created negative Karma onto yourself with that hateful comment you wrote.

@Mr. Blue, you like Anthony Bourdain, are a jerk. What did Paula Deen ever do to you? Nothing! If you don't like her, don't watch her. And as for karma, back at ya.

Mr. Blue....what a mean thing to say. You must be a miserable person who only wants to see bad things happen to others.

You are a terrible ,hateful man. And as far as her diabetes..that is her personal business. She cooks on television..no one makes you watch or cook what she fixes..turn the channel. She is a fine lady..and admired by many, many people..she has been through alot in her life and still is charming and kind. In other words you don't have to like her..but the ones of who do that offense to those who are unkind and just plain ugly!!!!

Yea -- those who quit figure they have all the answers for everyone else and because they did it, everyone else can.

I don't see her twisting your arm to buy her products, watch her show. Lazy people don't even have to get out of a chair to change a channel these days.

Sueseeq...hate much? Wow!

Not hate, nklpkl, just an opinion. We are all entitled to an opinion. Wow !

"She's disgusting" isn't hate?

Paula is a sweet, caring person as far as her words go: if you don't care to learn her cooking, at least learn THAT from her.

You know Sueseeq , your like a person who has moved here from another country and once here , all you can do is complain about the American culture and the way we do things...but, I'm sure your not from another country(are you?) and if you are, all I can say to that is,"Delta is ready when you are"...So If you dont like her show , her voice or her cooking , thats what that lil oblong thingy your holding in your hand(remote control)is for...CHANGE THE CHANNEL..And PLEASE, dont buy any of her products, so there will be more for the rest of us .

Whats wrong with her voice? Its called a southern accent..and down here WE LOVE IT and PAULA!!!!!

her accent is sssoooo fake, give me a break with her crapy food and generic twang

Might a person also get it from losing a kidney to kidney cancer? That is how I was told I got it but if there is only the one way - fat, bad eater, lazy - then my doctor must have misdiagnosed me.

Certain chemical exposures also cause diabetes. My husband is a Viet Nam vet and prediabetic because of Agent Orange. Most the guys he served with are also either prediabetic or diabetic, except of course the one who died of cancer instead.

Uh if type II is caused by being obese then how did I get it? I am not even considered overweight and exercise 5 days a week.

annsrum....you are absolutely correct in pointing that out. If all these experts on diabetes are right, then how did you get it? Fact of the matter is, most of these people are NOT experts. They just like to blame.....you got diabetes....well, its because you are an undisplined slob, eat too much, eat badly and dont' excersise.

Can you develop diabetes with that kind of lifestyle? Sure you can. It is very possible. However, there are more people who live that lifestyle who do NOT have diabetes than do. So, obviously, there is something more to it than just that. GENETICS play a huge role.

It's one of those diseases that people have decided they are an expert and if you have it, then they know why and you are to blame. Idiots.

Good luck with your condition. Control is the key! :)