P.H.A.T.
Portland Health Advocacy Team
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What's New...
Here's what's new on the P.H.A.T. tip: The CAST's opening night was April 27, 2017 at the Adventist Medical Center, 10123 SE Market Street, Portland, OR 97216 in the amphitheater. While registration for this event is closed, you are welcome to sit in on a meeting and learn what to expect from The CAST. There will be another event this time in 2018. The CAST is a 10-week journey designed to encourage, strengthen, and add tone to your health. The CAST takes the ten health principles (followed by those living in the Blue Zones) and explores them one by one on a weekly basis in an effort to maximize your journey to health.
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Want to know more about the From Sickness to Health Seminar? Click here.
Upcoming Programs & Events
PDX Food-As-Medicine Meetup - Free monthly meetup at 3:00 p.m. every 2nd Sunday at Stone Tower Center, 3010 NE Holladay St., Portland. Sign up for June's meetup here.
The CAST 2 - A 10-week follow-up to the health seminar. April 27 - June 29, 2017! The meetings are on Thursdays.
Community Garden Tours - Sundays at 12 p.m. 4606 NE 55th Avenue, Portland, OR 97218.
Essential Oils Education - Every 4th Sunday at 2:30m p.m. 4606 NE 55th Avenue, Portland, OR 97218.
Health Tip
Mental Health Linked to Physical Health
You've heard it before, right? We are what we think about. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Sometimes we as people hear things so much that they go in one ear and out the other. But this is one of those things we need daily give attention to. The condition of our minds is intricately linked to the condition of our bodies. It is said that 90% of physical disease begins in the mind. Wow!
"The relation which exists between the body and the mind is very intimate. When one is affected, the other sympathizes. The condition of the mind affects the health of the physical system. If the mind is free and happy, from a consciousness of rightdoing and a sense of satisfaction in causing happiness to others, it creates a cheerfulness that will react upon the whole system, causing a freer circulation of the blood and a toning up of the entire body...Those who are abundant in benefiting others will realize [a] wondrous blessing in both heart and life" (White, 1890). Imagine that! People were thinking and speaking about the connection between mental and physical health over 126 years ago! And it still matters today.
"Mental health is influenced not only by trait markers, general living conditions and major life events, but also, as increasing evidence indicates, by simple everyday behaviours that can be altered by an individual. Prospective studies consistently find a bidirectional relationship between various lifestyle factors and physical as well as mental health, with important improvements and wellbeing following relatively small changes in lifestyle" (Jonsdotter et al. 2010; as paraphrased by Velten et al., 2014, p. 1).
As we at P.H.A.T. have stated on numerous occasions, the little things really do add up. Most of us just aren't cut out to switch habits cold turkey. If you are a smoker, it may be cutting back from a pack a day to three quarters of a pack a day. If you enjoy eating meats seven days a week, it may be enjoying it five days a week instead of seven. Small changes in lifestyle have big impacts, not only on your physical health, but on your mental health as well. Such thinking as been around for over a century and longer. And a good rule of thumb is the old addage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Tried and true information is what we at P.H.A.T. aim to deliver.
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