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Paula Deen's diabetes solution: lighter gooey butter cake

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Paula Deen’s diabetes solution: lighter gooey butter cake

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – She may not be able to find a way to make her famous burger on a bun of glazed donuts recipe healthy, but Paula Deen is following up her announcement about being a Type II diabetic by offering up some lighter versions of her butteriest, gooiest Southern cake dishes.

First up: her Gooey Butter Cake recipe, now available in a lighter version that knocks a whopping 665 calories, 90 grams of carbohydrates and 71 grams of sugar from the original dessert.

The original cake comes in at nearly 1,000 calories per serving, with 99 grams of sugar and 137 grams of carbohydrates. The American Diabetes Association recommends eating between 135-180 carbohydrates — per day.

Deen, who has launched a “Diabetes in a New Light” campaign with Novo Nordisk, is partnering with her sons and frequent Food Network co-stars, Jamie and Bobby, on her new healthier cooking venture.

Bobby Deen is hosting “Not My Mama’s Meals,” a new Cooking Channel series in which he makes “Lighter and Leaner Pimento Cheese Sandwiches,” “Bobby’s Lighter Frozen Chocolate Mousse Pie” and the aforementioned less-gooey butter cake.

Deen, along with her sons, appeared on ABC’s daytime food series “The Chew” to discuss her diabetes and plans for recipe makeovers, but that may not be enough to satisfy some of her most vocal critics.

Fellow chef and reality TV star Anthony Bourdain, who once called Deen the “most dangerous person to America” because of her sugar and fat-laden fare, tweeted on Tuesday, “Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.”

The missive came after Deen’s “Today” appearance, in which she confirmed she’d been diagnosed with Type II diabetes three years ago and is now a paid spokesperson for pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.

Meanwhile, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which named her “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible” one of the five unhealthiest cookbooks of 2011, issued a public letter to Deen, addressing her Southern cooking and urging her to try a 21-day vegan diet.

“Many people initially balk at the idea of setting aside meat and cheese. But as a native Alabamian who grew up on Southern cooking, I can assure you that Southern classics such as mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese translate very well into hearty, delicious vegan dishes,” writes PCRM director of Nutrition education Susan Levin.

(Editing by Chris Michaud)


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Did Paula Deen's diet cause her diabetes?

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Did Paula Deen’s diet cause her diabetes?

In light of Paula Deen’s disclosure on TODAY that she’s been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, fans and foes alike are wondering whether the celebrity chef’s own cooking might have caused the condition. After all, how can bacon-doughnut-egg burgers possibly be good for you? 

Seriously, y’all: A fried-egg bacon burger on a glazed doughnut bun is NOT a doctor-approved diet.

Deen defended her fattening cooking style — and her decision to keep her diabetes diagnosis a secret for three years — to TODAY’s Al Roker. “I have always encouraged moderation,” she said. “I share with you all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation… it’s entertainment. People have to be responsible.”

Deen continued, “Like I told Oprah, ‘Honey, I’m your cook, not your doctor.’ You have to be responsible for yourself.”

Experts say you can’t draw a straight line from someone’s diet to their diabetes. While weight, activity level and genetics all contribute to type 2 diabetes, it’s not what you eat that’s most important, but rather, how much.

Related: Deen says diagnosis won’t change the way she cooks

Three factors push a person toward diabetes, said Dr. Robin Goland, an endocrinologist and co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

The most important factor is genetics – whether you’ve inherited a susceptibility to the condition.

“Now I’m not recommending this, but if you don’t have those genes working against you, you could gain weight and not exercise and your blood sugar would stay normal,” Goland said.

The other main risk factors are being overweight and not getting enough exercise. Your risk also increases as you age — Deen is 64. Experts aren’t sure exactly what causes type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes unable to metabolize sugar correctly, causing the sugar to build up in the bloodstream. It used used to be known as adult-onset diabetes and left untreated, it can be deadly. But it can be managed — and prevented.

While Deen’s recipes – which promote prodigious amounts of butter and fried foods — may not specifically cause diabetes, eating that kind of high fat and high sugar food regularly can make it very difficult to maintain a healthy weight.

Related story: Struggling to overcome ‘diabetes shame’

And for people who did inherit a susceptibility, lifestyle can make a difference. That means they may stave off diabetes by maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly.

Further, Goland said, you don’t have to exercise for hours every day or be twig thin. A large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that just modest changes in diet and exercise could prevent diabetes in nearly 60 percent of people at high risk for the disease.

Even among people whose blood sugar has moved into the danger zone, small changes can make a big difference. 

“If we take the hypothetical person who weighs 300 pounds and has high blood sugar when she enters my office, blood sugar can be brought down with a weight loss of just 5 to 10 percent,” Goland said. “That means if she gets her weight down to 280, her blood sugar might return to normal.”

What’s important when it comes to diabetes prevention is not what you eat, but rather, how much, said Linda Siminerio, director of the Diabetes Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

“To my knowledge no particular food has been linked to an increase in the risk of diabetes,” Siminerio said. “It’s being overweight and inactive.”

Siminerio sees some possible good coming out of Deen’s diagnosis.

“She’s a star on TV and she has a lot of power,” Siminerio explained. “This would be an awesome opportunity for her to come up with recipes for great tasting foods that are healthy. She could use her influence to teach people about healthy eating. Then the dark cloud could turn into a little bit of sunshine.”

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Paula Deen headlines Reliant cooking show

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The superstar rocking Reliant Center on Saturday wore a shiny peach-colored top, comfortable white slacks and silver sparkle slippers. “Like Dorothy,” Paula Deen said of her jeweled shoes.

And just like Dorothy, all the queen of Southern cooking had to do was click her heels three times to be at home in front of the 2,500 screaming fans who paid a premium to sit a the Metropolitan Cooking Entertaining Show’s Celebrity Theater.

Paula Deen, who headlines the two-day show at Reliant Center continuing Sunday, is a bona fide superstar in the food world – a celebrity who has grown beyond her Food Network showcase to become not just a household name but an international brand.

When she took to the stage Saturday morning, the first of three arena-like appearances at the Metropolitan show that is expected to draw 10,000 visitors, Deen was met with the kind of greeting usually reserved for rock stars.

To Holly Cannon, of Houston, that’s precisely what Deen is. Cannon and her husband, Bob, were among those who shelled out $400 for front row seats to one of Deen’s cooking demonstrations and private lunch.

The show’s priciest tickets for Deen were the first to sell out; Holly Cannon bought hers in December as a birthday gift for her husband.

Stones versus Deen

They were not disappointed. “It’s all he’s talked about for 24 hours – Paula Deen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen,” Holly Cannon said of her husband. She added that she saw the Rolling Stones at the first concert at Reliant Stadium and she’d “stand in line to see Paula Deen before the Rolling Stones again.”

Paulamania touched fans in different ways. Omar Alexander of Houston approached the stage to ask Deen a question and got more than he expected. She bent down to rub the top of his head – like a holy person dispensing a blessing – and implored him to be aggressive with his seasonings when cooking for his wife.

‘It’s butter, y’all’

“She sparked something in me,” he said after the show. “I’ll be more adventurous.”

Kasey Hilton, of Magnolia, is a die-hard fan who watches Deen’s shows enough to know of her deep love of butter. Hilton, 14, returned that affection by making a T-shirt that she wore to the show emblazed with a big golden stick of butter and the words, “It’s butter, y’all.”

“She is a star but she’s so humble and open just like any other person,” said Hilton who said that, like Deen, she hopes to open her own restaurant. She already has the name picked out: K K’s Cuisine.

Deen’s ability to relate to her fans as one of them may be a major factor in her success.

But she said in an interview before her first appearance Saturday that her celebrity is sometimes difficult for her to grasp. “It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it because to me I’m so ordinary, so average,” she said. “But I don’t question it too much. I just say ‘Thank you, Lord, for this beautiful gift.’?”

Cookbook on way

It’s a gift that keeps on giving, she said. “I feel like God doesn’t miss one day blessing me. Not one. I cannot wait to go to bed and get up just to see what God’s got next for me.”

Next month Deen begins to promote her new book, Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible, a nearly 500-page omnibus on Southern cooking that already sold 45,000 copies on QVC before its official publication date in October. To promote the book she plans a bus tour – just like a rock star.

‘Work until I drop’

The 64-year-old white-haired grandmother has no intention of slowing down. Retire? As ridiculous a notion as a warm biscuit without butter.

“I didn’t start to work until I was 45. I’m going to work until I drop,” she said before she took to the stage. “Now let’s get to work.”

And with that Deen was off – Dorothy slippers and all – to take her fans over the rainbow.

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