“Everybody needs comfort food,” said Paula Deen, and American cook, restaurateur, and Emmy Award – winning television personality when she visited the ladies of “The View” at the end of September and gave them plenty of samples to taste from her new children’s cookbook book. In spite of all Paula’s glorious parade of delicious meals and the ladies enjoyed testing them, “The View’s” host Barbara Walters “lashed out at her for pushing fattening food for children,” reports Parent Dish.

Deen, Georgia restaurant owner, was on the popular ABC program to promote her new book (the second, by the way, for children), “Paula Deen’s Cookbook for the Lunchbox Set.” Unfortunately for her, this time Paula Deen got under media maven attack.

“This is a cookbook for kids. Obesity is No.1 problem for kids today. Everything you have here is enormously fattening,” scolded Walters as she set by the famous chef. “You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast. You tell them to have chocolate cake and meatloaf for lunch. And french fries. Doesn’t it bother you that you’re adding to this?”

Deen was not intimidated by Barbara Walters question. She counseled, “All things in moderation.” Then she continued, “No, I ‘m not saying they should eat like this everyday.” Barbara Walters snapped that Deen’s book hardly a lesson in moderation. “Now when you’re giving them this!”

Parent Dish has two words for this. Awk. Ward. And they are absolutely right. Now watch this video and judge for yourself. Don’t you think that these problems will be very difficult to resolve if creators of fattening foods are given a such wide exposure–TV audience to people who influence parents and children in a wrong way by promoting “comfort food” packed with saturated fat?

Read our next post about how obesity problems are failling in America and what we can do about that.

Source:http://www.youtube.com; http://parentdish.com/2009/09/24/barbars-walters-says-paula-deen-makes-kids-fat/?icid=main/html
Photo of chocolate cake by Petr Kratovchil