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A Good Outcome from Celebrity Chef Paula Deen’s Message about Diabetes?

Paula Deen's new message

Paula Deen’s new message

I never heard of Paula Deen until this week, when the plump Food Channel celebrity and cookbook author announced she has Type 2 dia­betes. The Georgia-​​​​born, sweet tea-​​​​loving cook has teamed up with Novo Nordisc to spread the word about dietary mod­i­fi­cation and life with dia­betes. Her new platform, Dia­betes in a New Light, high­lights a drug she’s taking called Victoza.

Type 2 dia­betes tends to develop in over­weight people who become resistant to insulin. Thi disease is epi­demic in North America; it affects over 8 percent of the pop­u­lation. Almost 95 percent of adult-​​​​onset dia­betes cases are Type 2; many could be avoided by diet and lifestyle mod­i­fi­cation. Dia­betes causes blood vessel abnor­mal­ities throughout the body; it leads to sec­ondary ill­nesses like heart disease, stroke, poor vision and blindness, kidney problems, neu­ropathy and other serious health problems. It’s a costly disease, apart from the

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