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“What’s really unsettling here is Deen’s role as an apparatus for an industry that sees more money in perfecting the expensive (for the patients) management of a disease instead of working harder to find a cure or to promote prevention, in which there is no viable financial market. Diabetes, a widespread, little-understood, but completely manageable disease, is a potentially evergreen market. Deen’s new lifestyle plan, as expressed on both Roker’s couch and her new website, isn’t about preventing diabetes or educating people about what factors — dietary or otherwise — might increase or reduce their risk of developing the disease, but learning to live with it after its apparently inevitable onset.
The level of ruthless business acumen on display here is deeply disturbing. Deen has known about her diabetes for years now — years that she spent promoting the deep-fried, chocolate- and sugar-covered, on-a-stick diet that got her into this position in the first place.” The Evil Marketing Genius of Paula Deen, the New Face of Diabetes - Daniel D. Snyder - Health - The Atlantic
The level of ruthless business acumen on display here is deeply disturbing. Deen has known about her diabetes for years now — years that she spent promoting the deep-fried, chocolate- and sugar-covered, on-a-stick diet that got her into this position in the first place.” The Evil Marketing Genius of Paula Deen, the New Face of Diabetes - Daniel D. Snyder - Health - The Atlantic
