Asbury’s Health Ministry Team invites you to drop by the Parlor on Sunday, November 12 between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM for a free blood pressure screening.

Additionally, the Team will be providing educational information on Strokes and Stroke Symptoms.

The Health Ministry Team shares the following:

“John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, was also a physician. In his book entitled Primitive Physick (1785), he stated that his purpose in writing the book was to ‘set down cheap, safe, and easy medicines; easy to be known, easy to be procured, and easy to be applied by plain, unlettered men.’ He also felt that medicines at the time, were often “too dear for poor men to buy, and too hard for plain men to understand” and that he had not seen a book in any language that “contains only safe, and cheap, and easy medicines”. Therefore, he set out to provide his book for the common people. Some of his “easy Rules” still apply today, and some are relevant to maintaining health, including prevention of strokes. Here are some of his “easy Rules”:

1. The air we breathe is of great consequence to our health.
2. Everyone that would preserve health, should be as clean as possible in their houses, clothes, and furniture.
3. All pickled, or smoked, or salted-food, and high-seasoned food is unwholesome.
4. Water is the wholesomest of all drinks.
5. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to persons who have weak nerves.
6. A due degree of exercise is indispensably necessary to health and long life. Walking is the best exercise for those who are able to bear it. Those who read or write much, should learn to do it standing; otherwise it will impair their health. Exercise, first, should be always on an empty stomach; secondly, should never be continued to weariness.

“Our mission as a Health Ministries Team is to continue the tradition of John Wesley and provide ‘“cheap and easy’ information related to your health. We do hope you will join us on November 12 to learn more about current knowledge related to strokes!”