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Paula Deen’s Type 2 diabetes: Is her cooking really to blame?

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 18, 2012

Celebrity chef Paula Deen announced yesterday that she has Type 2 diabetes and she is getting paid to pitch a diabetes drug, but she’s also become the reluctant poster woman for what NOT to do to avoid diabetes. Would she really have sidestepped the disease if her recipes had contained less bacon and more brown rice? Perhaps, although diabetes experts, themselves, can’t agree on the best way to prevent the disease.

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