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Paula Dean Admits to the Country’s #1 Life-Style Disease – Type 2 Diabetes
Paula Dean, Food Network’s queen of artery-clogging cuisine, has just acknowledged that she has Type Two diabetes. When every recipe starts with “take two sticks of butter” and finishes with “sprinkle the top with two cups of grated cheese,” this should not come as a huge surprise. Type 2 diabetes has long been recognized in prominent scientific circles as the poster child of life-style diseases. Hopefully Ms. Dean will take this opportunity to read the literature, treat her disease with a whole-food, plant-based diet rather than drugs, change what she sells on her show, and make a real difference across the US.
Read the full story on the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-wartman/paula-deen-diabetes_b_1220459.html
Studies have demonstrated that a whole-foods plant-based diet can reverse Type 2 diabetes in many people, and can dramatically reduce the need for drugs in others.