I hadn't watched the "Food Network" for years and have been able to the past several days (indeed, one of my first posts on this blog was about Emeril, and of course, he's not getting any better... disturbing to see people cheering when he now puts a 1 cup or so of olive oil on highly nutritional microgreens).
Anyway, it's been a mixed blessing. Some neat ideas, but mostly an amazing array of unhealthy meat, dairy, and fatty food being touted as 'good cooking.' Tonight I happened to catch the tail-end of an episode of "Paula's Home Cooking." Paula Deen is a rotund fat/sugar/salt aficionado "chef" who specializes in "southern cooking" (y'know, from where the highest percentage of very obese Americans live, the South), as well as saying "y'all" as often as she can.
Normally I wouldn't bother blogging about Ms. Deen (too easy, obvious that her meals are nutritional roadkill), but I'll make an exception tonight. She was making "healthy and perfect after school snacks" for children. I caught the last one. The Pretzel Peanut Bark. She called it the "perfect snack" twice. It's white chocolate, salted pretzel sticks, and salted roasted peanuts. I did a quick ballpark estimate of the nutritional profile PER ONE SERVING:
- 1733 mg of sodium (two-thirds of what the American Heart Association says an ADULT should have per day)
- 46. g of fat (two-thirds the American Heart Association says an ADULT should have per day)
- 50.2 g of sugar (the American Heart Association recommends no more than 37.5 grams for an ADULT per day)
"Paula's Home Cooking" indeed. Perfect for getting you later put into a home for any number of diet-related disorders, and a "perfect" way to get kids even more addicted to fat, sugar, and salt, than they already are (where by genetics or environment). Forget taxing sodas. Take a percentage of her profits from her various interests and give it to children's nutritional awareness programs. They'll need all the help they can get if their parents buy into Paula's nonsense... y'all.