Posted on 03/19/2017 9:22:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Felicia O’Dell, 59, who won viral fame in 2014 after her son posted a four-minute clip of her cooking some dough-covered “sweet treats for the kids,” died early Friday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, her brother June O’Dell said Saturday.
In a Facebook post, O’Dell’s son Tavis Hunter wrote that “god made the decision to take my mother home,” and added that “She can finally Be happy.”
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Fee’s fame has come with no small amount of criticism. Some have called her illiterate, unsanitary and unscripted... They have said her dishes — loaded with butter, sugar and grease — will send people to an early grave.
Despite the criticism, Fee stayed true to her style.
“I’m gonna keep it 100 and be me,” she said in a 2015 Los Angeles Times profile. “Ain’t nobody gonna tell me I gotta do this, I gotta do that.”
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On Wednesday, O’Dell said Fee refused to change her eating habits. She liked to say she took after her father, who ate everything he ever wanted and lived to be 99.
“It turns out she took after our mother, who struggled with high blood pressure and diabetes,” O’Dell said.
Almost every day, Fee’s kitchen has been a revolving door of hungry friends and family. They all loved to watch her cook and looked forward to the hilarious things she’d say.
Her love for one ingredient in particular was always apparent.
“I’ll marry lard,” she told The Times.
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I have a physician /friend down the block that would disagree with you vehemently.
He strongly believes that natural animal fats, olive and cocoanut oils etc are actually quite healthy and that it’s the trans fats, corn oils, soy and the modified oils thats are the danger.
He also states unequivocally that cholesterol is protective and that moderately high levels are a good thing. Needless to say he thinks statins are, at best useless and worst, dangerous.
http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/7-diet-gurus-who-died-of-poor-health
1. James Fixx
The author of the 1977 runaway bestseller, “The Complete Book of Running,” Fixx is often credited with starting the American running craze. Fixx ran 10 miles a day in addition to other vigorous exercise, and was described as being in fine physical condition by friends — yet he had a fatal heart attack at the age of 52 while jogging near his home in Vermont.
Amen, the enemy is sugar and processed carbs which turn to fat if not burned as fuel. The food pyramid is upside down and low fat (replaced by sugar) has poisoned entire American generations.
Jim Fixx? I remember Karl Wallenda better.
My kind of Gal!!!
Love her philosophy and follow her guidelines (Actually first I have heard of HER).
Never thought I would see 30, pushing 78 and have declared I will be the first to NOT live life to its fullest -
The ULTIMATE goal of life is staying alive until you die.
I still work everyday, (though very selective), am on no prescription drugs (or never on ANY drugs - Alcohol is/was food until the lawyers got their hooks into naming things)
Had a Hernia Op in 1959, cataract surgery in 2007, my two major medical forays into life, last physical before 2007 was in 1964 and that was a joke.
Granted I could keel over tomorrow but..........
I figure those that exercise, watch their diet etc and die on the same day as I, will just die a little healthier.
Remember it has been proven by time that ANYONE that ate beans during the civil war died.
Buckwheat sings.
RIP.
“Alcohol is/was food”
I always think to myself, gosh I’m hungry, think I’ll drink some alcohol. ROTFL! Anyone who’s ever been even mildly drunk has experienced that alcohol is a drug.
hopefully she didn’t order her steak well done and douse it with ketchup!! THAT would be blasphemy.
When I was a drinker, the barley, hops and malt in Bud was considered MY daily intake of grains.
That plus the fact that cows eat grass filled out my need for any kind of greens.
Alcohol being considered a ‘drug’ is a fairly new concept.
It sort of coincides with alkies and druggies being eligible for victim/handicap/SSDI status.
Of course when I started drinking or at least when ‘they’ invented BAC, .15 or .18 was considered drunk.
Now that it is down to .08 or lower, ‘they’ can claim one is almost double over the limit of what was ‘acceptable’.
“When I was a drinker, the barley, hops and malt in Bud was considered MY daily intake of grains.”
Nutritional content doesn’t make it not a drug - pot brownies are drugs.
“Alcohol being considered a ‘drug’ is a fairly new concept.
“It sort of coincides with alkies and druggies being eligible for victim/handicap/SSDI status.”
A drug is a drug regardless of what status or benefits its abusers are or aren’t eligible for.
“Of course when I started drinking or at least when ‘they’ invented BAC, .15 or .18 was considered drunk.”
If it regularly intoxicates its users, as alcohol does by any reasonable definition, it’s a drug.
If you’re going to order your steak well done and douse it with ketchup, you might as well have a hamburger.
The lard didn’t kill her
Sugar and starch did
Fee’s fame has come with no small amount of criticism. Some have called her illiterate, unsanitary and unscripted... They have said her dishes — loaded with butter, sugar and grease — will send people to an early grave.
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