Paula Deen has Type 2 Diabetes. Quelle surprise.

Paula Deen has Type 2 Diabetes. Quelle surprise. And… it gets worse:

[...] she inked a multimillion dollar deal to become the new face of a Novartis drug used to help treat the disease

[via http://www.nypost.com/ ]

So you get sick and use your celebrityness to promote a drug that maybe fixes it instead of your diet. Most likely the drug just “maintains” your disease at a given level and keeps you dependent on it—because there’s no profit in cures.