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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] An interesting study on how aerobic exercise and eating foods afterward have impacts on insulin sensitivity. The study "Energy deficit after exercise augments lipid mobilization but does not contribute to the exercise-induced increase in insulin sensitivity," conducted at the University of Michigan received funding from the National Institutes of Health and was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.

The researchers wanted to measure the benefits of individual workout sessions and the benefits on the metabolism following it with different meals eaten afterward. They found that insulin sensitivity was enhanced after a workout and was still effective when eating small low-carb meal following the workout.

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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] Telomere length is a chromosome marker that measure aging, and those that had more Omega-3 fatty acid in there blood levels had longer lengths which would be considered less damage done, and more potential longevity for an individual. A study that appears in the January 20th issue of JAMA looks at the relationship of omega-3 fatty acid levels and telomere lengths in individuals diagnosed with coronary artery disease.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, studied the telomere length of 608 outpatients that was diagnosed with stable coronary artery disease. They measured omega-3 fatty acid levels in the blood and measured the teleomere lengths over a nine year period of time.