[yorkietalkjilly]

Well, I don't think type II diabetes is caused by bad food as far as anyone knows but by the body becoming insulin resistant or the pancreas stopping producing enough insulin, though the disease is usually adversely affected by the eating much buttery, fatty, sugary foods, lack of exercise, obesity and probably even smoking and drinking alcohol. One might hope someone like Deen, who publicly promoted recipes containing hefty amounts of those bad ingredients, might begin to alter her public shows and recipe books to reflect the changes in diet and lifestyle she herself was likely making in her own life for a couple of years after her diabetes diagnosis but I guess that would have interfered too heavily with the public persona off which she had made her millions - the queen of Southern cuisine. And then after making her money off such ultra-rich recipes she promoted, she made more money off a diabetes drug, all the while royalties from those Southern cooking shows and recipe books still rolled in, too. Seems like she had it both ways.