Kitchen Gadgets & Healthy Eating

An Instant Pot, wooden utensils, bell peppers, black beans, rice and garlic.

Jalak Patel, a clinical dietitian with Bon Secours Health System, said when cooking and enjoying meals at home, kitchen gadgets are essential to adopting a healthy lifestyle, as well helping to reduce meal prep time and “batch cooking.” “Whether you are pressed for time or space, good multipurpose kitchen gadgets offer a cooking solution that … Read more

Hyperbaric Chambers for Pets

Destiny, a surgery technician operating the HBOT chamber.

Even if you’ve never heard of a hyperbaric chamber – or if you think it’s just something else odd that pop star Michael Jackson kept at Neverland – it can be a key element in restoring your seriously ill pet’s health. There’s only one of these curiosities anywhere in the Lowcountry and it’s at Veterinary … Read more

Hand Washing

Washing your hands properly during the COVID-19 pandemic is important.

HealthLinks asked two medical professionals about the truth on hand washing. Read what Daisy Arrillaga, RN, BSN, ACRN, a nurse and clinical health promotion and education specialist at New Horizon Family Health Services in Greenville, and Family Physician Dr. Thaddeus John Bell, founder and CEO of Closing the Gap in Health Care, located in North … Read more

Closing the Gap in Health Care

An African American mother with her baby at the doctor's office

To understand why Dr. Thaddeus John Bell has dedicated not only his professional life to the health disparities with African Americans but also his personal life – you first have to understand where he came from. As a sophomore at South Carolina State University in 1963, he was arrested as part of the civil rights … Read more

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