Wow! You won't believe this!
We've come full circle here on the heels of Paula Deen and the media frenzy over her weight, her T2DM, and her celebrity status on the Food Network!
There's now a brand new show being premiered on the Food Network called "FAT CHEFS". It's all about TREATING the obesity and the medical co-morbidities of obesity, including T2DM!!
The show will be tackling the dangers of obesity and T2DM among chefs head on and will use medical professionals on the show to set these morbidly obese chefs on the road to recovery and health.
"Fat Chefs” will follows participant chefs for 16 weeks as they struggle to lose weight and learn a healthier way of life with the help of trainers, nutritionists and therapists.
"You have this abundance of food all around you," said pastry chef Michael Mignano, who's one of the dozen “fat chefs”, most of whom have been diagnosed with T2DM.
Mignano (36 y/o) owns a bakery. At 6’, he weighed about 500 pounds soon after he was diagnosed with T2DM in 2010, before "Fat Chef" went into production last October. His resolve to do something about his weight grew stronger as the result of a different Food Network show on which he appeared in September, "Sweet Genius."
He lost 100 # by eating lean protein, vegetables and exercising daily with the help of his diabetes care team, and now weighs about 400 pounds; his BG is now at 70 mg, but he says he has a long road ahead to reach his goal weight of 250 #. "Watching myself on that show, I was the fat guy. That's all I saw. I felt almost like a drunk seeing himself on the floor passed out."
As a pastry chef, Mignano said his problem wasn't so much the chocolate he was surrounded by. It was the junk food he'd slam down before and after work.
Below is a pic of Micheal with his "health consultant". It was copied from an article written by Leanne Italie, and posted at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/fat-chef-food-network_n_1229080.html on 01/24/12
WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK OF THIS "NEW TWIST" ??? !!
Mary Ann Hodorowicz, RD, CDE, MBA, Certified Endocrinology Coder
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