Yesterday during a visit to NBC's Today Show, Food Network star, chef, restauranteur, and author, Paula Deen, confirmed the rumors that she has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. This was not a surprise to most, since the types of foods Paula cooks on her show (filled with butter, heavy cream, sugar, etc.) are not the healthiest recipes one can prepare.

Since I began my blog in October of 2009, I have made it a point to speak about diabetes and share information regarding this horrible disease.

It has been almost three months since my dad was hospitalized for diabetes and congestive heart failure after I found him unresponsive in his home.

I originally wrote this article last year when my father was doing well with controlling his diabetes. As many of you may know, he is currently in the hospital with complications due to this disease,

What started out as what we thought was a virus ended up being much more serious because his diabetes went into overdrive. Once the paramedics were on site, we found out that his blood sugar was 500+ (more than their equipment could read), and his heart rate and blood pressure were through the roof.

The month of November has been declared American Diabetes Month by the American Diabetes Association. The fight for diabetes prevention and awareness has been an important issue of mine, as my father suffers from this disease. Many people have heard about diabetes but don't know exactly what it is or ...

Each year, millions of pregnant women experience gestational diabetes. As a blogger who has a father with diabetes, I have made it a point of discussing the disease at length on TCC. Educating my readers is a goal of mine, so I thought I would share my story of gestational ...

It has been a whirlwind of a weekend, let me tell you. With my birthday on Friday and the endless partying and family gatherings that have commenced over the weekend, a girl like me is TIRED! But I wouldn't trade this weekend of this life of mine for anything. I ...

While watching the boob tube the other day, a KFC commercial came on for their new breadless chicken sandwich called the Double Down. The sandwich consists of two slices of chicken with bacon and cheese in between. Calorie count for the original recipe version? 540. For the grilled? 460. Not ...

In the continuation of my weight loss series (for more on my weight loss efforts, click HERE), I wanted to discuss an awful, painful truth. It is cheaper to be fat than it is to be skinny. Why is that? In my quest to shed pounds recently, I have been doing ...

Each month, you can count on me to post at least one blog entry related to diabetes and tips on living healthy with the disease. As you may have read before on TCC, my father has been living with diabetes for several years and I was also afflicted with gestational ...

In November, I blogged about my father and his experience with diabetes. For the past ten years, he has been living with diabetes and has had to change his eating habits in order for him to stay as healthy as possible. With the influx of the holiday season, it is ...