The only thing I dislike about Paula Deen started a couple years ago when I noticed she CHANGED her personality... She got way more done up for TV, and I could tell she was getting a bigger head and she honestly seems more smug and less nice.
I understand that a lot of stars get that way. I don't hate her, and I like some things she makes, and I LOVED her original attitude and personality. BUT, I ALWAYS looked at her food as stuff to make every once in a while- certainly not even once a week... SOMEBODY'S gotta tell you how to make that kind of cooking- they have cooking shows for every type of (American-ish) food on TV, they might as well have that good, southern, buttery, comfort food, too.
It is to your own discretion about how you balance your own diet. Her food is fine for every now and then. She obviously didn't have that balance correct for herself, and that is unfortunate for her, but there should be nothing else said beyond that. Her food wasn't said to be healthy, and I'm SICK of people blaming others for their DUMB-@$$ own choices of food. If anyone else gets diabetes from eating her food all day, it is 100% the eater's fault.
And heck, I don't even think she owes a public announcement to people. It's personal and whoever is shocked that someone could get diabetes from eating gobs of unhealthy food is as dumb as a doornail!
So, to clarify, I'm not even close to being mad at her for this, that would be ridiculous... but, at the same time, I'm not going to consciously "support" her either, I just think the whole thing shouldn't be anyone's business, too bad it isn't that way, however...