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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) Diabetes was discussed on the Oprah Winfrey Show Thursday. “People are dropping like flies” and diabetes especially affects the African American Community, according to Oprah.

“I have a radical goal in the next 60 minutes to save millions of lives,” the talk show host opened her show with. As a heart surgeon, Dr Mehmet C Oz, says he sees people with diabetes all of the time. In the United States alone there are 80 million people who have diabetes or on the verge of getting it and there are another 6 million people who have it and don’t know it.

Americans spend $174 billion a year on the disease and that will double in 25 years. That is more than AIDS and all of the cancers combined. “At this rate it will bankrupt our health care system,” Oprah said.

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(Best Syndication News) The Los Angeles County Coroner reports that Casey Johnson died of diabetic ketoacidosis. Johnson, the great-great-granddaughter of Robert Wood Johnson I, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, died January 4th. Ed Winters with the coroner’s office tells Best Syndication that the manner of death was “natural”. She was 30-years old.

Typically this type of acidosis occurs in people with type-1 diabetes but it can also occur in people with type-2 diabetes. In certain cases this condition results from an shortage of insulin. The body then switches to burning fat which produces fat acids.

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(Best Syndication News) Citing recent studies, Doctor Mehmet Öz warned Americans about the “toxic pollution in our food supply.” On Tuesday Dr. Oz revealed what his scientists found in food.

Our planet’s ecological crisis is becoming our own crisis, the doctor warns. Pollution in the air and water are now “making their way inside us,” through our food. Mercury, pesticides and Bisphenol A (BPA) are just a few of the lethal toxins that can reap havoc on our body.

High levels of mercury can lead to developmental problems in babies and can damage the heart, kidneys and brains of adults. Eight percent of women have dangerous levels of mercury in their blood, with 90 percent of that coming from fish.

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[Best Syndication News] The FDA have been researching the effects of Bisphenol A also called BPA a chemical that is found in plastic food containers which they have been recommending consumers to limit their exposure to plastic containers. The FDA has released an updated report on BPA which has been in hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s.

The FDA has expressed concerns about the safety of BPA and have written on their website, “FDA have some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children.”

While the FDA believes it is safe they are recommending limiting BPA to children. Because of the FDA's concern of BPA they have been working with the National Toxicology Program with their National Center for Toxicological Research to further research the potential hazards of BPA. The FDA has a website dedicated to BPA and what they are currently doing to remedy the problem.