'Fat Chef' Michael Mignano Says the Food Network Show Helped Cure His Diabetes

[Northerner]

In many respects, pastry chef Michael Mignano's job was killing him.

Constantly surrounded by sugar and carbs, the owner of the Main Street Bakery in Port Washington, N.Y., said years of late nights in restaurant kitchens, followed by fast food dinners on the way home, caused his once 34-inch waistline to balloon. By the time he was 36 years old, he weighed 500 pounds and had been diagnosed with diabetes.

"I allowed the stresses of work and life to just compound and just literally eat me alive," Mignano said. "In 2009, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. And I went in the doctor's office that day. I didn't feel well. He checked my sugar and it was to the roof."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fat-ch...rk-show-helped/story?id=15442878#.TyJni1yRGAg

Do wish they wouldn't use the 'C' word! 😱

 

[macast]

Do wish they wouldn't use the 'C' word! 😱

makes me mad too!!! 😡

so.......... if I lose a shed-load of weight and become as thin as a rake I wouldn't have diabetes???? whooo hoo!!! ...... NO?

 

[Northerner]

If you watch the video with it, he's still a very overweight man, so it does seem to give out the message that you can 'cure' diabetes by going from a 500 lb (nearly 36st) man to a 400 lb (nearly 29st) man, and maybe also that you need to be extremely overweight to put yourself at risk of getting it.

 

[macast]

oh I didn't watch the video with it first time round. gosh..... how can he have got control of his BG levels by just dropping 100 pounds when he still weighs 400???

 

[trophywench]

Well I guess - it proves that not everyone who is fat, will also be diabetic. But even if you are one of those persons, more fat is obviously a bridge too far.

He's apparently aiming for 250 lbs - that's practically 18 stone. Why? Is he 8 feet tall or something?