Are those chef on TV get diabetes when they taste desert all the time???!
Answers: Don't you hate those TV shows, they always making different kind of deserts or sweet foods? It look so tempting, and they always make me craving for sweet at night. I hate it cuz I don't know where to get it at nite. One more thing, since they always makes desert, I'm wondering if they get diabetes or not. People told me not to eat too much sweet things or I'll get diabetes. But geeez....that's my favorite food. Do you hate it when you watch them making desert or sweet tooth things?
it may look like the chefs on t.v. are always eating but if you watch they only taste things so their only consuming a little of their own foods they cook on t.v. but no they cant...
I wonder sometimes...
I enjoy watching Rachel Ray cooking.. but her servings she gives to one person seems to me to feed 3 people.. You;d think she'd be fat as a hog by now... I dont get it..
No, don't think so... You don't get diabetes just by testing desserts...
Food Network is full of overweight cooks. Sandra Dee is skinny, but then, she doesn't really cook, and I suspect she lives on gin and cigarettes off the air. Rachel Ray got chubby after she started her daytime TV show, although I notice the weight's off now--she was likely spanked by her producers; after all, part of her appeal is that she's a hot latin chick. Bobby Flay stays trim by staying angry. At times when watching Tyler Florence in his rare TV appearances, I could swear he's wearing a man-girdle.
When in chef school, we rotated through various responsibilities. I was considered very successful at pastry. The chef-instructors and even the dean of the school egged me on to create all sorts of desserts, which I did with considerable enjoyment, making all manner of pies, cakes, breads, ice creams (prickly pear was one I remember, a beautiful magenta color like pepto-bismol), and even sugar and chocolate work. Every cook tastes what s/he makes--you have to, it's part of your training.
The instructors held me over at this station because I was such a success at it, and I continued for a couple more weeks, until I knew something was wrong one day. I was getting fat. I'd gained something like 15 lbs in about a month. I begged to be released from my tour of custards.
Overconsumption of sugar and fat are considered risk factors for diabetes. I suspect that corn syrup is an even bigger culprit, because it's not metabolized like regular sugar, and we also eat huge quantities of it now, whereas 20 years ago, we ate almost none of it. It's an unknown quantity.
Personally, I've had a change of heart about food and cooking over the past several years. I enjoy cooking, but as you've noted, professional chefs/cooks are required as part of their job description, to be rather obsessed with the topic of food, and I don't think it's really a healthy obsession. Part of the reason they must be obsessed is because they are required to constantly invent new, exciting (richer) dishes. Note Paula Deen's nighttime special, where she makes ridiculously rich ... well, everything. I don't especially enjoy watching shows with over-the-top food.
I think if they were permitted to simply make good food, then everybody could calm down, people would have to sample less. But cooking (and eating) can be very ego-driven things, a source of sweet, greasy pride. "Pride goes before a fall," they say, and buttercream is slippery stuff, so be careful.
diabetes and consumption of sugar are not related.