Paula Dean has type 2 diabetes | GENERAL TOPICS | Forum

Big news there, but not a huge surprise.

You know, there is a huge opportunity here for Paula Dean to turn her health around AND influence a lot of people in a wonderfully positive way. This could really be her new calling. 

I hope someone gives her a copy of the China Study and E2 and introduces her to Dean Bernard. 

Sad, but again, not surprising.  I actually think I could respect her more if she'd said something like, "When it's my time to go, it's my time to go, and I'll eat what I like, thank you", instead of pulling the "moderation" card, which for the most part is BS.  The majority of Americans don't know, or don't care to know what that word even means, or care to practice it.  If moderation, as most people see it, worked, then diabetes, CAD, cancer, etc., would be rarities and not an epidemic as they are now.

I must agree with plants4life that most people have no idea what moderation is.  That is one of the primary consequences of the SAD, is that it's so extremely unhealthy that what may look like moderation is really still way off base.  I would say that one of the primary things I have come to see from eating plant-based is that all around me is an absolute mountain of unhealthy food.  It's in the grocery stores, restaurants, potlucks, lining the streets we drive down, cookbooks etc, etc.

So considering that fact, what would moderation look like to most Americans?  If a person cut back on this junk by 50% – which seems like a lot, we are still poisoning our bodies and at a very rapid rate.

Moderation, while a useful idea in concept, can't be useful in the real world – because our world has tipped the scale so far toward junk.

Ann