Think the worst that alcohol can do to you is give you a hangover? Tell that to 35-year-old Beverley Pickorer (pictured), whose decade-long alcohol addiction led to a range of medical problems — chiefly cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) — that have left her bed-ridden and looking literally twice her age. And don’t think that […]
Ed Currie, founder of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina, hopes his homegrown “Carolina Reaper” — a crossbreed of a Sweet Habanero and a Naga Viper — will soon own the Guinness world record for the hottest chili pepper, but even if it doesn’t, he won’t feel his work has been in […]
In 2010, actor Michael Douglas stunned fans worldwide when he revealed that he had stage 4 throat cancer, a condition that he at the time attributed to a combination of alcohol, tobacco and stress, but just recently he revealed that the disease — which has since gone into remission — was in fact caused by […]
