And why not? Eating better would go against the heavy, fatty, tasty food that she's built her dynasty on. She'd have to change all her recipes. It's probably much easier to just let big pharm pay her to endorse their drugs. In fact, even though she was diagnosed three years ago, she only came forward with her condition now that she has an endorsement deal with Novo Nordisk.
My initial thought was why doesn't she just launch a series of healthy eating cookbooks. She could update her old recipes with ingredient substitutes that are better for your body. Publishing new and improved editions of books you've already published is a tried and true way of boosting sales. But before my internal rant went too far, I checked out her site 'Diabetes in a New Light' and saw that it goes in that direction...
As a public health specialist though, I was dismayed with the pharmaceutical tie-in... many people default to drugs instead of behavior change when diagnosed with a chronic disease and I wonder if this new partnership only reinforces that practice.
Okay, I just read further down the article on CNN's 'Eatocracy' and she denies that her diet played a primary role in developing Diabetes, citing moderation as the message in her show and the reason she hasn't had to change her own diet! One step forward, Ms. Deen, and two steps back.
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