“Your whole life you’ve been told that diet and exercise are the keys to a healthy weight,” says Liz Neporent in an ABC News article, “5 Surprising Thinfluences on Your Weight.” But this begs the question, isn’t there more to the equation than simply what you eat? In an ABC News Twitter chat moderated by … Continue reading Combatting obesity: Controlling your ‘Thinfluences’
It often seems that health and diet trends emerge every week. Experts suggest adding a new superfruit into your diet, or an internet sidebar advertisement suggests that cutting out certain foods can “drastically improve weight loss.” Because of the wide variety of information available, it can be very difficult to discern wise advice from the … Continue reading Going gluten-free: Advice from Dr. Richard Besser’s Twitter chat
Some of the most special things come in twos. This is especially true for Dave and Jenni Ezell, proud parents of Emmett and Owen—the formerly-conjoined twins born belly button to breast bone. The twins were born in July at a local children’s hospital before moving to Our Children’s House at Baylor in Dallas last April … Continue reading Formerly Conjoined Twins Finally Head Home
Back pain can take a serious toll on the body. It’s one of the most common reasons we miss work, and one half of all working Americans say they experience back pain symptoms each year. Though the road to a healthy back isn’t always a simple one, treatments ranging from medication to physical therapy to … Continue reading Don’t Fall For These Back Pain Myths
This blog post is part of the Google+ Healthy Hangouts series on breaking and timely health news. Detecting and preventing colon cancer is not necessarily a pleasant topic to discuss, but it’s an important conversation to have for the health of both men and women as they age, and for those at high risk of getting the … Continue reading WATCH: Stopping Colon Cancer Before It Starts
There’s a worldwide conversation going on about genetically-modified foods (GMO) so the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center asked Betty Murray, a certified nutritionist, author, speaker, Executive Director of the Functional Medicine Association of North Texas and founder of Living Well Dallas, to serve as the keynote speaker at the Virginia R. Cvetko Healing Environment Workshop … Continue reading Q&A on GMO Foods with Betty Murray
This blog post is part of the Google+ Healthy Hangouts series on breaking and timely health news. In the moments following a suspected heart attack, time begins ticking on your “heart clock”—each tick is another second that your heart goes without adequate blood flow. Because 3,000 to 4,000 individuals die as a result of sudden cardiac death, your … Continue reading WATCH: Chest pain? Your next choice could be a lifesaving one
The largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas, and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health was born from the coming together of Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare. “The new ‘mark’ represents the coming together of many providers with one focus—the patient we serve, at … Continue reading WATCH: What’s Behind the New Baylor Scott & White Health Logo
Okay, so the title might be clickbait… but we can all agree that preparing for a marathon requires just as much strategy and dedication as the race itself because of the commitment needed in training, exercise and in the mental preparation for the 26.2 mile race. We sat down with Scott Quinby, MD, the medical director … Continue reading Marathon running tips to prep you for the big race
“If you’re not on medicine to lower your cholesterol yet, you might be soon,” says Matt Sloane of CNN in a recent article regarding some new cholesterol treatment guidelines released by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. The recently released guidelines are set to change the way high-cholesterol individuals are treated and … Continue reading Should everyone be on cholesterol medicine?
