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type ii diabetes

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Type II diabetes is a long-term disease that causes high blood sugar. The body resists insulin or makes too little, so sugar builds up in the blood. It’s often managed with diet, exercise, weight loss, and medicine.

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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. Paula Deen

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