Paula Deen teams with Novo Nordisk on diabetes

Drug companies do not want us to get well...they would go out of business...

Sorry if I offend anyone but I think Paula Dean is a big phony and will do anything to make a buck.
She's a smoker too....just an aside.
I'm not a big Anthony Bordain fan but he's right on when it comes to her principles.
Hooray for Bobby, looks like he moved away and is so buff now and I'm sure Paula is just steaming at his new show. You go Bobby.

Dean has money to burn, I think the only way to redeam herself is to donate her profits from Smithfield and Novo to charity. Tom Colicchio recently made a comment with her association with Smithfield.....and it wasn't in a good way apparently Smithfield's practices with their animals are appauling with their cruelity to animal practices according to PETA and they have filed charges with them in the past. Dean is also a spokesman for Smithfield.

type 2 is the most common, but type 1 is always neglected and is much more difficult to control and dose not get the attenion it needs

Does it bother anybody else that the title of this article is " Paula Deen Teams Up with Novo Nordisk?" She is getting paid to be a spokesperson. Unless she is doing this for free the title should be "Paula Deen is Hired by Novo Nordisk to promote their Drugs."

You would think she would promote a diabetic friendly cooking style on her show rather than the fat and sugar laden stuff she prepares.

Wish my 13 year old can just take a pill or be able to control her diababties with exercise and diet, she has type 1 and it will never go away =( she is 5'3 89 pounds and checks her sugar 6 times a day and shots twice a day. wish ,more people would talk about type 1.

She was diagnosed 3 years ago and is just now making the announcement. Now she is going to sell drugs. It's all about the money, Paula.

I like Paula but she needs to loose weight, and eat healthy food. Her Husband is huge and he won't last long with the food she feeds him. She fries bacon in a fryer. What do you expect?

As someone who lives daily with T2 diabetes, I appreciate the struggle someone in the public eye, esp. someone who makes her living by cooking, would have "coming out" publically with diabetes, and hopefully she'll be able to reach people who might not be reached otherwise. Having diabetes is hard, it's a life sentence, and just because someone is fat, doesn't mean they "deserve" diabetes. While being overweight is likely a cause of diabetes, it's not the ONLY cause, or every overweight individual would have it. Show some compassion people. Imagine waking up every day knowing you have diabetes, wondering at what point you will start having kidney issues or eye issues, worrying everytime you get a cut that it might become infected, ultimately causing an amputation. So what if someone let themselves become overweight, they don't automatically deserve diabetes anymore than someone who lies out in the sun deserves skin cancer or someone who smokes deserves lung cancer. Don't judge until you've walked in someone elses shoes.

While a crappy diet can contribute to T2 diabetes, it is also genetics! My family has been ravaged with diabetes(and deaths from diabetes comp), most are NOT obese, but some are. So before you all start spewing about a disease most of you do not have, I suggest you educate yourselves first. Knowledge is power!!

Why didn't she say something 3 years ago when she found out she had Type2?
Oh that's right she didn't have a deal with a drug maker.

She only came out to the public about it after she made her deal with pharmaceutical co. Sounds like bad Karma to me.

so...for 3 years, this has been kept secret until she could make money off it by being a spokesperson? And in this time, she has failed to use her incredible celebrity and the love her fans have for her to promote healthy eating, exercise, and ways to cook that are good for the folks who follow her? I am disappointed. "Moderation" for the butter and pork fat soaked recipes she promotes would be very, very, very rare meals, just ask Dr. Oz.

Get rid of the gluten and the sugar for one thing.

What a load of crap! 3 years!!! She has had it for 3 years!! As she went on preparing those foods for the masses to imitate, she knew she had eaten herself into diabetes. Not a moral person. Money grubbing. Sick!!

SHE LOST MY RESPECT!!!!!!!

Victoza didn't work for me at all, and it's hugely expensive....on medicare's prescription plan, you're only covered for a certain amount....and then they only pay half, when that's done....which MY half was $600!!! Yes...the stuff is like $1200 (and as I said, doesn't always work) Apparently, it's all about money for Paula D. ...Shame on her! I already knew she had Type II.....between her "diet" and the way she looked, it was obvious. But for her to go three years without saying anything to her fans and at the same time, continue to pass on her recipes that aren't normally as healthy for a diabetic (even if eaten in moderation), is inexcusable.....her son has the better idea....taking her mother's recipes and making them healthier....however, I think what angers me the most is that she obviously didn't let the rest of us know until she had solidly made a money making "deal" with a drug company....money is more important to her than the health of her fans. Well, personally, although I like her recipes, I can't stand to listen to her talk and behave on tv...She puts on her accent more than she really has, and her grammar is horrible and you have to wonder if that isn't "put on" a bit as well....she not only represents her family but she also represents the South, and Southern women....and sadly, she gives others the impression that all Southern women are loud, have poor grammar, says "Y'all" after every other word and flirts and comes on to every man who's in the room (and spouting out sexual inuendos every other sentence). For anyone who is reading this, Southern women are NOT typically like this, but are educated, and speak and behave in an educated and refined manner...however, they do know how to have fun, but in a classier way. It's sad that she's worked so hard to build her little empire, only to allow greed to be its downfall...I have a feeling that a lot of her fans are going to be very unhappy with her and she'll lose a chunk of her following.

Now would one of yaaaaalllllllll please explain to lil ol me ova heah how eating deep fried, honey coated bacon in butta gravy covered with four pounds of sugah might in any way have some health benefits . Most of her recipies should come with instructions on how to operate a difibrulator and an insulin syringe .

Shame on you, Paula! Shame on your sons. You've destroyed all the credibility you or your family may have had. Are the drugs you're going to push be made in China like your merchandise? I'm done with the Deens and Food Network!

What a bunch of cr@p! She eats herself into diabetes and ends up with a drug endorsement??