Feb 12
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Paula Deen and Type 2 Diabetes
HaHaHa
Ok, this is just funny but in a way sad. All the news says she has had Type 2 Diabetes for three years now but didn’t tell the public and probably not even herself because she wasn’t treating, controlling, or taking charge of it. The only thing she apparently did was have gastric bypass surgery in 02′. We know she is a food lover, a chef you could say or at least food maker, and now as we know a Type 2 diabetic.
Pros and cons, first time ever, where I’m blending them together because it’s good and bad at the same time.
1. Paula Deen has become a paid spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. She also uses and takes the company’s diabetes medication called Victoza. She is collaborating with them on a website (will not name here) which offers recipes and information about the disease.
2. She is donating money to the American Diabetes Association, no response given why, could be the negative press, could be because it’s a nice thing to do and she wants to, and the amount is unknown.
3. She’s a distraction. The media storm surrounding the news of her illness is exactly the sort of publicity bonanza the pharmaceutical company must have dreamed of when it hired Deen to be the spokesperson for its new marketing campaign.
4. Tragedy to opportunity all because she hasn’t taken care of her body and because she is rich. Why can’t this happen to a regular person? There are many of them out there who do actually and would love to receive money from a pharmaceutical company to do their advertising. I know, I know, it’s because people know her/famously known and already has a reputation with the public and people look to people like this a “role model”. She’s NOT a role model though, she’s just helping with the money part of things by giving to an organization and NOT helping by being greedy and receiving more money that she doesn’t need.