Paula Deen is merely the tip of the Food Network high-fat iceberg.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/paula-deen-diabetes_n_1212614.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl7%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D128537

Yes, it's just like eating a bag full of Lays Potato Chips (either regular or baked) to call Paula Deen out on her mixture of hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, naked greed and a willingness to split the morality atom by balancing sales of a diabetes drug with maintenance of her popular down-home cooking "brand."

Granted, there's a mitigating factor--Paula's son Bobby now has a healthier version of his mother's schtick on sister station The Cooking Channel: http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/not-my-mamas-meals/index.html

But The Food Network has other programming of the eat-the-high-fat-delicacies-they-taste-so-good genre.

There's frosted-hair good-old-boy Guy Fieri's DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/diners-drive-ins-and-dives/index.html.

And the upscale-cast-of-food-stars variant of Paula Deen--THE BEST THING I EVER ATE:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/the-best-thing-i-ever-ate/index.html.

At this juncture, I'm guessing The Food Network will do their very best to ride out Paula Deen's Type 2 Diabetes revelation (which some network execs or perhaps Paula's entourage will likely blame on either foodie snobbery or condescension towards Southerners) and do very little to change their winning eat-at-your-own-risk-and-don't-blame-us-if-you-get-sick-and-die formula--which should now be viewed with caution and (excuse the expression) taken with a grain of salt.