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[Best Syndication] A study showed that if a person ate a high fiber diet regularly from grains and cereals along with magnesium, they showed a lower risk for developing type 2 diabetes. The study was first reported in the May 14th issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Type 2 diabetes is been on record breaking numbers. In 2000, there were 171 million cases worldwide that have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Because of the ongoing obesity epidemic, projections for the 2030 estimate that there will be 370 million people suffering this condition in the world.

Dietary fiber has a number of proven health benefits, and the researchers believe that people won’t develop type 2 diabetes, because they are absorbing more nutrients and also reducing blood sugar spikes after a meal.

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In addition to recent reports that the drugs work no better than sugar pills, the latest warnings added to the long list of adverse events linked to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants have focused on birth defects, suicide risks and violence.

However, the massive over-prescribing of SSRIs, including Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro in combination with many other drugs now has medical experts scrambling to educate doctors about a life-threatening condition known as "serotonin syndrome."

According to the report, "A Mix of Medicines That Can Be Lethal," by Jane Brody, in the February 27, 2007 New York Times, "with the enormous rise in the use of serotonin-enhancing antidepressants, often taken in combination with other drugs that also raise serotonin levels, emergency medicine specialists are trying to educate doctors and patients about this not-so-rare and potentially life-threatening disorder."

YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger - Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz

[Best Syndication] Dr. Oz received a number of questions from Oprah’s viewers. We have discussed some of the topics individually, but we will finish up with the remaining questions that were discussed with Dr. Oz on yesterday’s Oprah TV show.

Dr. Oz is a co-author with Michael F. Roizen of top selling series of books about health including, "You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management”, and, "YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger." He checks in on the Oprah TV show to answer our most embarrassing medical questions.

Today Dr. Oz was asked if holding in gas all day long is harmful to your health. He answered that everyone passes gas, and you should be able to let loose so long as the room is airy enough to handle it. Dr. Oz said that beans, while they can cause gas, will not make your gas smell bad, but eating eggs, and meat will cause the bad smells. If you hold it in too long, you will not harm yourself, but you can cause yourself pain.

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[Best Syndication ] Infant formula and baby food could have a new ingredient that will tame their appetites reports Lisa Melton in Chemistry & Industry magazine. The new baby foods could be on store shelves soon, as Clore Laboratory at the University of Buckingham are developing foods for infants that is fortified with leptin hormone.

Leptin is a fat hormone that controls hunger. The researchers believe that those who take leptin hormone early in life will never get fat and will remain slim despite eating those extra calories. You know those people that can eat and eat and never gain a pound.

Mike Cawthorne who is the head of the Metabolic Research group at Clore has already shown that supplementing infant rats with leptin protected them from ever getting fat or developing diabetes. They even showed that rats that were fed leptin and were fed a high-fat diet remained slender.

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Scientists from the University of Glasgow found that fats found in our stomach could reduce the protective benefits of antioxidants including vitamin C. The research is being presented today, at the Society of Experimental Biology’s Annual Main Meeting.

Cancer in the proximal stomach has been increasing over the last 20 years. The researchers report that environmental factors such as diet play a role. Nitrite is also believed to be a pre-carcinogen for gastric cancer.

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is one antioxidant that protects against the formation of nitrite compounds by making it into nitric oxide. If the antioxidants aren’t available, nitrite would form spontaneously into nitrosating species which could target secondary amines and bile acids and forming carcinogenic N-nitrosocompounds.