Professional athletes know it. Just ask tennis great Venus Williams, who joyously returned to the court after she became vegan to help treat her autoimmune disease, Sjogren's syndrome. Linebacker Wesley Woodward persuaded 10 other Tennessee Titans to switch to a plant-based diet the year the team made it to the playoffs after a decade of being out...
Comedian and late-night TV host Johnny Carson died in 2005 from emphysema. That and chronic bronchitis are the two most common forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Smoking is the No. 1 trigger of COPD (Carson smoked a lot, even on air), but it also can develop from exposure to air/industrial pollution. COPD is the third leading cause...
With Chicago's mayor and chief of police on the take, Al Capone thought he was above the law. It wasn't until after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre that Capone fell out of favor with his influential friends and became "Public Enemy No. 1." He was finally nabbed on tax evasion charges and sentenced to 11 years in jail. That arrested...