It’s Tuesday morning—you drop the kids off at school, hit the highway, and set out on your usual 7:30am routine on the way to work. After hanging up from your 9am conference call, your heart starts to race and you can’t catch your breath. You begin sweating, trembling and thinking you’re having a heart attack, [...]
By Guest Blogger: Snacking has long been the perfect complement to a late-night movie or get-together. It has a way of making everything more pleasurable. Back in the days before all the hoopla surrounding carbs and calories, I wouldn’t even think twice about indulging in a bowl of popcorn while watching our favorite TV shows [...]
Anyone who has ever suffered from a bout of food poisoning knows how horrible it can be— but where does food poisoning really come from? When 600 people got sick and 3 children tragically died after eating burgers from a national fast food chain in 1993, it thrust a little known foodborne illness called E. [...]
You always heard that giving of yourself is a good thing, but did you know that community service can actually lead to better health: physical health, mental health, and life expectancy? Our team at Hospitality Health ER meets thousands of community members each year through our interactions at our Tyler and Longview emergency rooms, and by [...]
The California measles outbreak of 2015 prompted many discussions around the need for parents to have their kids vaccinated. The CDC reported 145 measles cases from the California outbreak, with researchers pointing to “under-vaccination” as the cause for the spread. They found that only 50% of people exposed to the measles during that time period [...]
At Hospitality Health Emergency Room (HHER), we like to find ways to help our community beyond their needs for urgent care and emergency services. We want to help families be happy and healthy, which starts with encouraging positive lifestyle habits. When it comes to good nutrition, we know it’s difficult to cook a healthy, home-cooked [...]
As the price tag of cashews— and most other nuts— continues to rise, many of us will pass them up muttering, “$7.00 a bag? That’s so not worth it.” Well, think again. Cashews aren’t just tasty, protein-filled snacks: they contain powerful, health-enhancing nutrients that may keep us from, well, going nutty. Yes, you heard that [...]
Unusual chest pain, nausea, abdominal pain…could you be having a heart attack? If you’ve never felt this way before, you jump to the worst case scenario, like many of us would. You call 911 or have your spouse rush you to the nearest urgent care center in Tyler. After three hours of waiting and examinations, [...]
The late 20th century was an era plagued by supersized fast food meals and TV worshiping. Fitness was diminished to thumb exercises from playing video games and wrist lifts from getting the remote control off the coffee table. Chronic diseases and nutrition-based lawsuits stemming from widespread childhood obesity brought a nationwide health epidemic to the forefront. [...]
“Let food be thy medicine,” said Hippocrates. Hippocrates was half right: food, like almost everything else in life, can be a good thing or a bad thing. It can be the gift that keeps on giving, or our mortal enemy. But when we make the right food choices, food can do wonders for our immune [...]
