Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE It’s rich and delicious, that Southern diet: plenty of fat, and starch, and sugar in that sweet, sweet tea. But it’s deadly, especially to African-Americans. The fat, sugar and sodium that make Southern food so tempting also sends blood pressure …

Sick patient in pajamas sitting in wheelchair in hospital corridor with doctor and nurse in background The liver can regenerate. A lost arm or leg can be replaced with a man-made prosthetic. But the heart cannot be so easily fixed. Heart cells do not regenerate or repair themselves. And while artificial hearts do exist, they can only be used for …