If you're like most people, there's a gun pointed to your head and you don't even know it.

Poor lifestyle choices can induce chronic inflammation that could result in serious or life-threatening illnesses and even death from heart attacks, strokes, debilitating arthritis, heart failure, dementia, cancers, and autoimmune disease.

But no alarms go off when we smoke a cigarette, eat a large bag of fries, or inhale a donut--so most of us don't see the gun barrel. It keeps taking aim until one day it goes off.

Robert Buckingham, MD, FACP, exposes the truth about the gun and...