dr. mark siegel. >> my calling but i should be paid for it. stuart: dr. mark siegel.much. we are seeing the mainstream media will not give met romney a chance in the debate tomorrow. not giving george w. bush a ago.ce against al gore 12 years that is part of my take and my take will be next. [lghing] [message beep] [tires screeching] >> they talk about that all year. it was never true. when we made a gain of 6 show us what they had written down it was a stack of paper with all work and no play makes jack adult oid. that was grover norquist. stuart: cold water all over the idea in the new york times there will be a budget compromise during a lame-duck congress. as he was doing that the stock market came off of its 15 point rally. "varney and company" wall to wall starting at 9:20 eastern. to the big board we are down 11 points. i call it pretty flat market. look at gold pretty flat. not much movement at 1778. as for the price of oil down $0.03. gas prices flat. national average for a gallon of regular still at $3.78 and diesel and $4.08. early this morning i jumped the

dr. mark siegel. he's also the author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. doctors, good morning. >> good morning. >> eric: good to see you. we have to the great news that came out in a study this week about cholesterol. there's a dramatic drop among americans and adults. we've known that high cholestrol is a major risk factor for disease. this is good news. thankfully cholestrol is down. >> we need some good news, right? it's great to start the week like this. look. finally whatever we've done as a medical community and the patients are actually listening to this program, whether it has to do with the diet or the way weight or obesity, for the first time we see average cholestrol coming down below 200. that's fantastic news. believe me, we need some good news. when you took about cholestrol, the first thing that comes to mind, it's heart attack and stroke and bad news. cholestrol is absolutely necessary, and we need it. it's a building block of the human body. we need

dr. mark siegel with the fox medical ateam. where are we? is it contained? are we with this outbreak? >> i don't want people to be scared. meningitis is an infection of the lining of the brain. this is a fungus. usually it floats around the air in the dirt and soil. you don't get sick from it. in this case it has been found from a compound pharmacy which is the middleman which takes a steroid and sticks it into a vile and sends it around the country to people get back and neck injections for pain. 3% of our pharmacies are those little men compound pharmacies. 7500 pharmacies we are talking about. they're not under sterile conditions. they don't have fda oversight. [talking over each other] charles: they don't have oversight. >> because of federal law -- [talking over each other] >> there is precedent. very conflicting. they don't have oversight. you never hear me come on this program to talk about wanting more federal oversight. how many times have i said too much government. in this case the fda needs more teeth in the situation because they have to be able

dr. mark siegel.monster and energy drinks, specifically, it was a 14-year-old girl who drank two 24 ounce cans in a 24 hour period. she died. now, should these drinks have a warning label on them? >> i want to make a couple of points and thank nicole for the tease. the fda doesn't have a lot of regulatory power against things that are not prescription. they can't match in and put a warning on the can. they can get involved, but don't have the law. there's two to three times the caffeine than a can of coke or coffee and people don't realize it and loaded with sugar. this young girl had an underlying heart disease and the company says we can't prove that the drink caused this. i think that this much caffeine, which is a stimulant, plus the sugar, people are out there, with underlying heart disease that don't know it and don't realize you're getting the caffeine here and realize it when you're drinking coffee. i'm worried about this. stuart: is it true of other energy drinks, that they have a big load of