If I'm not mistaken, Paula Deen has NEVER said her types of foods are particularly healthy, so why is Bourdain giving her grief about it? Her recipes are fine for eating from time to time, and most Southerners don't eat like that every day.
Did Anthony Bourdain have anything similar to say about Julia Child who used butter and cream all the time in her cooking? I guess since hers was French cooking, it would be considered OK.
Julia Child actually said that if you only eat low fat “healthy” foods that you’d become sickly and get dandruff. Hence her love of all things creamy and buttery. And she lived to be 90.