Celebrity Diabetics

Paula Deen and Type 2 Diabetes

Posted by admin on February 16, 2012 at 12:16 pm

HaHaHa Ok, this is just funny but in a way sad. All the news says she has had Type 2 Diabetes for three years now but didn’t tell the public and probably not even herself because she wasn’t treating, controlling, or taking charge of it. The only thing she apparently did was have gastric bypass [...]

Mary Tyler Moore

Posted by admin on March 25, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease, meaning the body’s immune system turns inexplicably against its own insulin-producing cells, destroying them as if they were foreign invaders. Since people with Type 1 Diabetes can’t produce their own insulin, they must put insulin into the blood stream through injections or an insulin pump. This type of [...]