Butter doesn’t cause diabetes.
She could cut out the processed white flour and sugar and help her and her viewers. She should start butchering small animals on her show. It would be useful.
True however being overweight, i.e. fat; whether being fat from eating white bread and sugar or being fat from eating deep fried bacon with butter is going to make you much more susceptible to getting type II diabetes. Once fat, the body doesn’t know or care how you got that way.
Once diabetic, the diabetic body can’t process and quickly convert carbs into energy and all those excess sugars end up in the blood stream. It’s a misnomer that sugar or “white” carbs alone causes diabetes or that diabetics can’t eat sugar or carbs in moderation. And diabetes contributes to hardening of the arties so a diabetic should not eat a diet too heavy in animal fats either. I know, my dad was and brother is diabetic. It runs in my family as it does in a lot of people of Scandinavian descent.
There was a British guy that was doing that very thing on his show. Raised his own hogs and a few beef, grew his own veggies and bartered for seafood and hunted other things. Ate well and raved about the “fat” on his pork and beef. Discusses eating well and healthy without being smarmy or preachy. I highly recommend the “River Cottage Series” http://www.rivercottage.net/