Chef Has Diabetes, and Some Say ‘I Told You So’

The Queen of Sow-thern Cuisine.

FOR 10 years, wielding slabs of cream cheese and mounds of mayonnaise, Paula Deen has become television’s self-crowned queen of Southern cuisine and one of the country’s most popular chefs, with an empire built on layers of gooey butter cake, fried chicken and sheer force of personality.

On Tuesday, she suddenly unveiled a new career for herself: herald of a healthy life. In an interview on the “Today” show on NBC, she revealed — as has long been rumored — that she has Type 2 diabetes, a diagnosis that she said she received three years ago.

This pig's problem and cluelessness is clear:

All the same, Ms. Deen said she would not change her own lifestyle or cooking style drastically, other than to reduce portion sizes of unhealthful foods. “I’ve always preached moderation,” she said. “I don’t blame myself.”

There are no healthy foods, her preaching of moderation, if true, was a do-sa-I-say-not-as-I-do thing and she has only herself to blame.

Here is the Deen of Pigs with AdipOprah, another clueless sow making big bucks advising legions of morons how to lose weight.