Durham is a city known for many things, like being the “Tastiest Town in the South” for its restaurants and the “City of Medicine” for its many healthcare companies. But for over 50 years, Durham was ...

(AP) Before Atkins, South Beach and Paleo, there was the Rice Diet. Shelley Winters, Lorne Green and Buddy Hackett all big-name entertainers of their day made the pilgrimage to take part in the ...

The rice diet, originally developed by Dr. Walter Kempner in the 1930s, was designed to address specific medical conditions, primarily high blood pressure (hypertension) and kidney disease. Over the ...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – One of the country’s best-known diet centers is closed after more than 70 years of attracting celebrities, business executives and others suffering chronic illness and obesity to ...