Paula Deen has been a diabetic for 3 years.

And she kept it a secret while cooking up the same surgery, high fat, and deep-fried dishes. Food Network found out about her diabetes last week. She should come out with it and shifted her cooking to recipes that are good for diabetics. More here.

This is the old Paula: "Pass the Butter: Paula Deen's 9 Most Gluttonous Recipes." 

Monitor yourself for diabetes

Symptoms of Type 2 diabetes. They are easy to spot if you have them.

An amazing diabetes story

Spencer Wallace, Jr., has lived with type 1 diabetes for 80 years. When he was diagnosed insulin was new and untested.

New diabetes treatment

New Scientist: Stem cells extracted from rats have been used to treat diabetes.

Does the TSA know what diabetes is?

At the Denver airport, a pregnant woman reported the TSA refused to allow her past a security checkpoint because she was carrying insulin for her diabetes and ice packs while boarding a plane.

New Rules Would Label Millions of American Workers as Disabled

Are you disabled? The number of people who are disabled under the American Disability Act may increase dramatically because of new regulations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For example, diabetics may be covered.

Cruise from hell

AP: Diabetics aboard the crippled cruise ship Carnival Splendor have had a very difficult time. I'm very much in sympathy with them as well as all other passengers. I have just canceled all my plans to take a cruise, lol.

AP: The Center for Disease Control estimates that the number of Americans with diabetes could increase from 1 in 10 to 1 in 3 by 2050 if current trends continue. That's an increase from 24 million people to the range of 76 to 100 million.

That sucks.

Karen Flanagan has an article about the Sugar Thieves, people who steal your sugar and replace it with artificial sweeteners in the belief that they are helping diabetes. Sugar-free foods are not carb free. It took me a long time to learn that simple lesson. She says:

For example a regular chocolate chip cookie has approximately 26 grams of carbohydrate in it. A similar sugar-free cookie has about 20 grams. Real apple pie has about 40 grams of carbohydrate per serving, and the sugar-free variety has about 37. A slice of yellow cake with frosting has about 40 grams of carbohydrate while the sugar-free version still delivers about 28 grams. The sugar-free ones are not free foods.

For years I believed that sugar is what drove up my blood sugar. I checked sugars on food labels and ignored carbohydrates. But your body doesn't know the difference between a chocolate chip cookie and a baked potato.

AP: Austin Freeman, Georgetown basketball player recently diagnosed with diabetes, kept track of his points while a trainer keep track of his blood sugar level. On the other hand why can't a diabetic play basketball and play well?

Mort Kondracke, a writer for Roll Call, argues that a war on diabetes should be part of health care reform. Amen to that!