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Hi Brothers,
We had a great health checkup on our last meeting :-) Thanks to Dr. Ernie Yep who gave us a talk on Men's Health, but before that, I would like to thank all the Brothers who celebrated my 50th birthday with a delicious cake! (Now you know I have been faking to look young :-). What a surprise! I feel so blessed to have Brothers like you who have given me support and love. Let's keep this kind of brotherly love in this fellowship. See attached photo (courtesy of Martin).
The importance of health maintainance by doing checkups, exercise, and eating. A good tip on eating, usually you feel full after 8 to 10 minutes after you eat, so therefore it's good to eat only 70% full since you will feel 100% full after 10 minutes. Otherwise, we keep over eating everytime! Dr. Yep talked about cancer among other illnesses. What is cancer? it's really out of control of cell growth that produce the tumor. Some can be prevented, others are genetic. Some that have no symptoms that need to get a screening to detect. Normally, doctors recommend you take certain test at different age level, take it! Common cancers among women are breast, cervical (can be contagious) and colon. Men's common ones are prostate and colon.
Dr. Yep also told us what Advanced Directives are. It's in case of emergency, that you should have a proxy who will decide on what to do from your prior instruction. Instructions such as DNR (Do Not Resuscitate), DNI (Do Not Intubabe), and CMO (Comfort Measure Only). This is to avoid confusion and dispute among relatives and friends during an emergency. Some brothers questioned if this conflicts with our faith. Dr. Yeh reminded us that God has His own timing (Ecclesiastes chapter 3, and chapter 11 verse 9).
Let's really take care of our health Brothers, so we can use it to glorify God and to enjoy those golden years with our love ones.
We will be going to help out with Celeb fellowship to South Cove Nursing home on November 12 from 10am to 1pm. Stay tuned for details.
-Brother Billy
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