[magicalthinking]

Paula Deen's food is unhealthy. This is not news. It's kind of like finding out eating DQ all day long won't cauase weight loss.

I remember a while back she was on some talk show, I think Oprah, and she was making a cake or something with like 4 sticks of butter. The host (lets say Oprah), said something about that being a crazy amount of butter and Paula goes "I'm your chef hunny, not your doctor, I never said this was healthy", and well...she never has said her cooking is healthy.

I also saw her Dr. Oz recently he was trying to get her to make healthier versions of her foods, they made a couple, looked yummy. She was also talking about how she's been a smoker for years and is trying to quit and is trying to loose weight, because she knows what she's doing is unhealthy.

And yeah, she's trying to make money. So is Rocco Disperito with his healthy cooking book (which I love btw), and Dr Oz with his show, and oh yeah, your regular doctor. Everyone is trying to make money. That's what we do in our society. I'm trying to make money too, I'm just not getting famous for it.

[My2miracles]

Oh & her son is coming out with a cooking show called "Not my momma's cooking"

[LifeToTheMax]

Originally Posted by My2miracles

Oh & her son is coming out with a cooking show called "Not my momma's cooking"

Her sons have a website with recipes for lighter versions of her cooking, and some of their recipes are fantastic!!

[Mom2Froggy]

I really hate how people think that anyone have a right to know a famous persons personal business... in any regard. She could have thrown in 5 sticks of butter in every step of her recipes for all I care... no one has a right to know whether she is diabetic, bullemic, a hoarder, a hoarder, obsessive with certain foods, and so on and so forth. I dont care. People's personal problems are their personal problems. Whether they are your neighbor or the president... whether they are depressed or overweight, guess what? It's not your business. She doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING. She could be 650 lbs, it doesn't mean she has to disclose that "Hey guess what fans, I'm overweight and diabetic because I use tons of unhealthy stuff, just to let you know. Now let's move on!" NO ONE HAS THAT RIGHT TO KNOW! We can all make that decision ourselves. Because the ONLY person accountable for our own bodies are ourselves. The ONLY person ever accountable for our own bodies other than ourselves are our caretakers when we are too young/incapable of doing it ourselves.

I can't imagine walking into a classroom and saying "Alright kids, despite being an English teacher and teaching you all how to read and write and many other aspects of the English content... I have an incredibly hard time reading out loud. I mix words and sentences up and can't process what I'm reading. I get frustrated. I would say I have a slight form of Dyslexia. I also had a brain injury and have a hard time remembering names and facts sometimes and it makes life hard. In fact, this really should disqualify me from being a teacher. What do you think?" And see what everyone else thinks. No... instead... I just do what I do and prove that it has nothing to do with the matter. Her body type has nothing to do with her being a chef. Despite me not being able to read out loud well, it actually doesn't impede me. Besides my brain injury, it actually doesn't impede me. It CAN mess with me and names at times, but I work around that and catch on. If I had put all this on the table in the beginning people would be biased... people should get to know people BEFORE the label, not WITH a label.

[plan4fate]

Originally Posted by Mom2Froggy

I really hate how people think that anyone have a right to know a famous persons personal business... in any regard. She could have thrown in 5 sticks of butter in every step of her recipes for all I care... no one has a right to know whether she is diabetic, bullemic, a hoarder, a hoarder, obsessive with certain foods, and so on and so forth. I dont care. People's personal problems are their personal problems. Whether they are your neighbor or the president... whether they are depressed or overweight, guess what? It's not your business. She doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING. She could be 650 lbs, it doesn't mean she has to disclose that "Hey guess what fans, I'm overweight and diabetic because I use tons of unhealthy stuff, just to let you know. Now let's move on!" NO ONE HAS THAT RIGHT TO KNOW! We can all make that decision ourselves. Because the ONLY person accountable for our own bodies are ourselves. The ONLY person ever accountable for our own bodies other than ourselves are our caretakers when we are too young/incapable of doing it ourselves.

I can't imagine walking into a classroom and saying "Alright kids, despite being an English teacher and teaching you all how to read and write and many other aspects of the English content... I have an incredibly hard time reading out loud. I mix words and sentences up and can't process what I'm reading. I get frustrated. I would say I have a slight form of Dyslexia. I also had a brain injury and have a hard time remembering names and facts sometimes and it makes life hard. In fact, this really should disqualify me from being a teacher. What do you think?" And see what everyone else thinks. No... instead... I just do what I do and prove that it has nothing to do with the matter. Her body type has nothing to do with her being a chef. Despite me not being able to read out loud well, it actually doesn't impede me. Besides my brain injury, it actually doesn't impede me. It CAN mess with me and names at times, but I work around that and catch on. If I had put all this on the table in the beginning people would be biased... people should get to know people BEFORE the label, not WITH a label.

Some would argue that by admitting it would help out students who may be experiencing the same thing and too ashamed to say it. I certainly wish someone would have told me that it's ok that I stumble along when reading aloud, that it's normal. Instead I was forced to read aloud, told to slow down, or speed up, or this or that.

Someone saying "it's ok, just do your best, you aren't alone" may have given me more confidence, and kept me from trying to memorize Shakespeare so I wouldn't have to actually read it.

It's not that you HAVE to.. but for me, I would tell on the off chance that there's someone in front of me feeling stupid because they can't read like everyone else can, who could benefit from knowing they aren't alone.

[Mom2Froggy]

Originally Posted by ~Tithen~

Some would argue that by admitting it would help out students who may be experiencing the same thing and too ashamed to say it. I certainly wish someone would have told me that it's ok that I stumble along when reading aloud, that it's normal. Instead I was forced to read aloud, told to slow down, or speed up, or this or that.

Someone saying "it's ok, just do your best, you aren't alone" may have given me more confidence, and kept me from trying to memorize Shakespeare so I wouldn't have to actually read it.

It's not that you HAVE to.. but for me, I would tell on the off chance that there's someone in front of me feeling stupid because they can't read like everyone else can, who could benefit from knowing they aren't alone.

I guess I should clarify some... in my classroom, I do not call attention to disabilities/abilities/problems a student or myself may have... I let them be. I let it be as "natural" as it may be, if that makes sense. It's not like I would say "I struggle to read out loud" and yet do it... I just do it, and I bet my kids do see that I struggle at times. I just move on though. When a certain student reads out loud, he struggles. Sometimes kids want to read and say "Okay Gabriel let me read" or "Gabriel you messed it it says...." and I will say "No, he's doing fine. Let him finish until he wants to stop" and let him choose when to stop. I actually told my students that it is more detrimental to ones reading to fix every other word when reading out loud, I will NOT fix someones speech unless they change the context of what is being read, and then I will nicely fix what was said. I won't fix every word. I won't disrupt the flow of what is being read. It's also a rule that everyone is allowed to go at their own pace and do what is best for them and we all encourage each other and if we have a problem... we need to help each other with those words. So all my kiddos know I have a problem, but we don't call attention to the direct problem... does that make sense?

To bring attention to one kiddo, Gabriel again... you know those kids in class that everyone just KNEW were the "bad" readers... well Gabriel would be the kid that is a "bad" reader but loves to read out loud. I let him. I never make him, or anyone else read out loud. They follow the rules wonderfully and help each other, it's in the dynamic of the school. Just today he was reading his story and another kid says under her breath "Isnt he amazing?" It just warmed my heart... even as he was tripping up on his own words of his story, she was listening to his story he wrote rather than him tripping on his words and saying "Gabriel, focus on the words" and getting irritated at the fact he wasn't reading right. This school is very different though. And with my brain injury, I have told the kids Im horrible with remembering names and told them not to take offense to it, but didn't tell them why. It gets me extremely flustered just because of the story behind what happened. I think that might be a story for when we do a Passage Day, which is basically when classes are shut down and we hang out and just talk and get to know each other all day. I didnt think I could tell them then, but probably could now.