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Paula Deen Pushes her Fatty Cookbook for Kids on "The View"

by TheCameraObscura | September 28, 2009 at 08:43 pm

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Obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing among American children. You might think someone from the Food Network would promote healthy eating for kids, right?

On "The View," the Food Network's Paula Deen pushed her high-calorie cookbook for children, which included cheesecake for breakfast, french fries for lunch and calorie laden muffins for that ride to school. Paula did preach "moderation" in between bites as she stuffed her face on live TV. She didn't mention diabetes or skyrocketing childhood obesity.

Barbara Walters: "This is a cookbook for kids. Obesity is the number one problem for
kids today. Everything you have here is enormously fattening. You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast . . . Does it bother you that you are adding to it? No? Not at all?" pressed Barbara Walters.

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at 08:34 on September 29th, 2009

In these times where childhood obesity--and adult obesity--is contributing to many of the chronic illnesses, it is disheartening to hear this. Paula Deen is famous for her comfort food, and the recipes do not count calories thats for sure, but they are usually very good even though they are quite fattening.

However, she is free to write whatever kind of book she wants, and I doubt her target buying population is children; it is parents. So, its ultimately up to parents to deciphor and decide if this is something they want for their children. And the market results of sales will eventually decide if people are willing to sacrifice nutrition for comfort foods on a regular basis.