Super Bowl Sunday is America's second-biggest food consumption day of the year. In a new report, PCRM dietitians single out popular party items with extraordinarily high levels of saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol.
The obesity epidemic is not caused by inactivity, bread, rice, gluttony, weak will, or a bad childhood. It is caused by a tsunami of unhealthful foods, and one of the worst, perhaps surprisingly, is cheese.
Paula Deen, the TV chef who has long promoted the worst of American gluttony with butter, meat, and junk, had been hiding from her fans the fact that she had developed type 2 diabetes. Ms. Deen is a mirror. And what she shows us is that it's time to throw out the butter and cream gravy.
"I want to let you know that I'm sorry to hear that you have to deal with the challenges of diabetes, but I want to offer my help," wrote PCRM's director of nutrition education Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., in a letter to Paula Deen.
