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[Best Syndication News] On The Oprah Winfrey show today, it was all about type 2 diabetes and what we can do to prevent the disease and halt the damage that it creates. The first part of the show discussed how the disease works and the second part of the show had an intervention and a success story of a chef that had reversed his diabetes with diet and exercise. This is article discusses the second half of the show.

Dr. Ian Smith participated in the Diabetes intervention on Oprah's TV show today. He is well know for his creation of 'The 50 Million Pound Challenge' which was created to challenge the population's problem with obesity with the goal of weight loss. Smith is currently the medical/diet expert on VH1’s 'Celebrity Fit Club.' He is also the author of several books, including 'The Fat Smash Diet.'

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[Best Syndication News] January is gone, not it is make it or break it for those New Year's Resolutions that you have made. You might be thinking that you will have to join a gym, or maybe you did and you can't find enough time to actually go to the gym at a decent hour. So what do you do?

There are some options out there, and you don't have to go broke doing it. The problem often faced with working out is the boredom of the same old routine. If you walk all the time, pretty soon that will be boring. So the best thing to do if you find that boredom has set in is to have different activities during the week to break up the monotony. Read more below.

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(Best Syndication News) The Food Inc documentary was discussed on the Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday. The startling documentary has been on sale since 2008 but hasn’t garnered much attention until now.

Michael Pollan, author of “Food Rules”, says Americans need to get back to eating “whole foods.” People that eat a diet of traditional whole foods typically do not suffer from type-2 diabetes and heart disease. Even Eskimos with their high fat diet do not suffer from high rates of heart disease.

Pollan says stay away from processed foods. Don’t worry about carbs or fat, but eat a diet rich in whole foods. “It is about eating minimally processed plants, animals and fungi.”

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[Best Syndication News] Leptin is a protein that controls our appetite, it tells us that we are full and we can stop eating. Researchers at the Université de Montréal in Canada are researching a leptin diet pill that would aim to suppress hunger and aid in weight loss by increasing the amount of leptin in our bloodstream. The researchers are working toward developing such a pill, but of course it is more than likely to have a long way to go before it arrives to market as they will be studying the prototypes on animals this year.

The problems faced with a leptin diet pill is to come up with one that wouldn't be digested before the protein could enter the bloodstream.

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[Best Syndication News] Building parks with hiking and bike trails may be an effective way to treat the epidemic of obesity in the United States, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Oregon State University.

Parks and Recreation programs are being reduced throughout the United States because of budget cuts to balance the shortfalls. The researchers believe that cutting these programs can be counterproductive because of the increase in health cost associated with obesity.

The researchers suggest that more recreation facilities should be made easily accessible to the public along with more educational program emphasizing the benefits of physical activity.