Celebrity chef and Food Network star Paula Deen is teaming with New Jersey-based drugmaker Novo Nordisk to launch a program that aims to help people live with Type 2 diabetes and promote a Novo diabetes drug.

The program is called Diabetes in a New Light and offers tips on food preparation, stress management and working with doctors on a treatment plan.

Deen has Type 2 diabetes and takes Victoza, a once-daily noninsulin injection.

Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes. In Type 2 diabetes, the body either does not produce enough insulin or does not use it efficiently, allowing excess sugar, or glucose, to accumulate in the blood.

AP wire services contributed to this report.

Diabetes in a New Light