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Paula Deen

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

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Paula Deen is saying that no single food directly leads to diabetes, but rather the condition is linked to being overweight. She also shares that it has taken her several months to fully accept and understand her own diagnosis of Type II diabetes.

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