Paula Deen Diabetes

WATCH: Paula Deen Opens Up About Her New Diet

Posted 05.18.2012

Food Network star Paula Deen opened up to ET's Nancy O'Dell at her Savannah, Georgia home about keeping her controversially-revealed diabetes under co...

Deen Speaks Out On Bourdain, SNL

Posted 04.04.2012

Finally, she speaks! In the cover story of the May 2012 issue of Prevention magazine, Paula Deen opens up for the first time about some of the cont...

Paula Deen Asks Judge To Dismiss Harassment Suit

Posted 03.30.2012

Earlier this month, Lisa Jackson, a former employee of Uncle Bubba's Oyster and Shrimp House, a restaurant owned by Paula Deen and her brother Bobby H...

Paula Deen: 'I Woke Up Every Day Waiting To Die'

Posted 03.06.2012

Paula Deen has gotten quite a drubbing in the media since revealing that she'd waited three years to tell the world she had diabetes. She crushed any ...

Anthony Bourdain Has More Harsh Words For Paula

People.com | Posted 02.29.2012

Feuding celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen went another round Sunday at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Florida. With both ch...

Paula Deen Drops Two Pant Sizes

Posted 02.28.2012

Someone's turning over a new leaf: Notorious Crisco-lover and Food Network star Paula Deen first announced that she had Type 2 Diabetes in late Januar...

Paula Deen Breaks Silence On Diabetes Backlash

Posted 02.24.2012

Paula Deen appeared on "The Today Show" Friday morning poolside in Miami while attending the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Deen and her son Bobby ...

Paula Deen Doesn't Regret Diabetes Reveal

AP | J.M. HIRSCH | Posted 04.25.2012

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A month after being widely criticized for revealing she has diabetes – as well as a lucrative endorsement deal for a d...

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No Changes To Paula Deen's TV Shows After Diabetes Announcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Naughty But Nice Rob | Posted 02.14.2012

After the shocking revelation that Food Network host Paula Deen was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago, many questions remain. High among ...

Paula Deen Should Turn Lemons Into Lemonade

Laurie David | Posted 04.02.2012

Laurie David

Paula Deen's problem -- hers and America's -- won't be solved with a prescription from the pharmacy. But it can be solved with changes in the way we all cook, and eat.

Is Paula Deen a Victim Like the Rest of Us?

Christina Pirello | Posted 04.01.2012

Christina Pirello

Paula Deen has built her empire on deep-fried, buttery, sugar-laden foods that look like fun, but rob us of health. But who is really to blame for her penchant for deep-fat fried... anything? Is Paula a victim just like the rest of America... or an accomplice in a crime against humanity?

Even Paula Deen's Sons Were Mad About Pharma Deal

Posted 01.30.2012

Paula Deen's diabetes announcement has stirred up anger and loathing from across the food world. For evidence, you don't need to look much further tha...

Does This Paula Deen Ad Go Too Far?

Posted 03.28.2012

The New York-based gym chain, New York Sports Club took out an ad in the Jan. 25 edition of the New York Times that turned into news itself: the text ...

WATCH: Paula Deen Criticized For Eating A Cheeseburger

Posted 03.27.2012

Poor Paula. Last week, the Queen of Southern Cuisine announced that she had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Many (HuffPost Food included) were...

'Fat Chef' Tackles Weighty Issues

AP | By LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 01.24.2012

NEW YORK -- Paula Deen's diabetes revelation pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in ...

Did Paula Deen's Publicist Quit Over Novo Nordisk Deal?

Posted 01.24.2012

Paula Deen's longtime publicist Nancy Assuncao left her job at the beginning of December for then-unexplained reasons. Today, though, the New York Pos...

Paula Deen: How She Can Help Reverse The Diabetes Epidemic

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 03.25.2012

Mark Hyman, MD

Paula, be a cheerleader for America and create new recipes and a new show to teach us that food can be both fun and good for you. Please help us Paula. We need you.

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Celebrity Chefs Fall Silent About Paula's Diabetes

HuffingtonPost.com | Naughty But Nice Rob | Posted 01.24.2012

Chef and television personality Paula Deen was blindsided by the public backlash following the announcement that she has type 2 diabetes. But what has...

Paula Deen: From Big Food to Big Pharma

Kristin Wartman | Posted 03.24.2012

Kristin Wartman

Personal responsibility and consumer choice are solutions heralded by conservatives and liberals alike--the idea being that ultimately good health comes down to what we choose to buy and eat. But it's not that simple.

Southern Fried Pancreas

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.24.2012

Jeff Schweitzer

The collective reaction to Paula Deen's diabetes announcement tells us much about our attitude toward health and nutrition. Of course nobody is shocked at the news, but many commentators missed an opportunity to make a bigger point.

Paula Deen's Deep Fried Disaster

Nancy Berk, Ph.D. | Posted 03.24.2012

Nancy Berk, Ph.D.

The fact is, medical crises jeopardize careers every day. Some people make wise decisions, others make foolish ones. And none of these choices are ever easy.

Diet, Diabetes And Paula Deen: The Case For Loving Food That Loves Us Back

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.21.2012

David Katz, M.D.

Pretending that food doesn't matter to health is at best denial, at worst a serious delusion. We should not mortgage health to pay for culinary delight, any more than we should give up culinary pleasure to purchase health. We can love food that loves us back.

Will the Authentic Paula Deen Please Stand Up?

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 03.21.2012

Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Paula Deen has a golden opportunity to send a very important message to this country, if she wants to join the fight against diabetes in a truly authentic way.

Open Letter From a Chef/Dietitian to Paula Deen

Cheryl Forberg, RD | Posted 03.20.2012

Cheryl Forberg, RD

Of course, there are cases of diabetes that need medication, but Paula, why don't we work together to show people that there are other ways to control it?

Paula Deen's Preventable Marketing Disease

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 01.19.2012

Sarah O'Leary

Paula is now suffering from the popular perception that money bought her new-found honesty. If money was her motivator, sadly, she missed what would have been a whole grain-fed cash cow.