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Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2025 Reducing the risk of dying prematurely. Recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that people who regularly consumed a one-ounce daily serving of walnuts, almonds, cashews, or other tree nuts had a 20 percent lower risk of dying from any cause during…
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World Cancer Day (February 4)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2025 Cancer touches millions of lives in countless ways. The new World Cancer Day campaign 2025-2027 “United by Unique,” places people at the center of care and will explore new ways of making a difference. It offers a three-year journey from raising awareness to taking action for…
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New Resource: Health and Wholeness AcrossCultures Book
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2025 This is a new resource from GC Health Ministries that is available as an e-book and a hard copy. This comprehensive book by Dr. Katia Reinert is a must for students in the health professions, active health professionals, health ministry enthusiasts, pastors, missionaries, and anyone interested…
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Adventist Human Sexuality Resources
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 Human sexuality is one of the most beautiful gifts ever given by God to His creation. Join us as we explore the magnificent beauty and profoundness of this gift to discover God’s love, truth, and life. Many questions arise amid mixed messages shared in the media.…
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Official Adventist Health statements
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2025 The Adventist church has voted on several official statements and guidelines about whole-person health and healing. These statements are related to physical, social, behavioral, and mental health. These include reproductive health, care of the dying, addictions, domestic violence, human cloning, poverty, sexuality, immunizations, and more. Check…
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Home is Where God Is
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 Since I was born, my family has moved 23 times. Houses, towns, cities, countries -including Ukraine. But then the full-scale war came, and immediately, my wife and daughters became refugees, our parents stayed in Russia, and we became separated by borders, frontlines, and the distance. At…
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Focus!
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 We live in an era of extraordinary opportunity and inexhaustible challenge. Advances in medicine, technology, and communication have opened new doors for service, while global crises, uncertainty, and shifting values present daily tests to faith and commitment. In such a world, focus is key. Focus allows…
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World Mental Health Awareness Day (October 10)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 This year’s campaign emphasizes the urgent need to support the mental health and psychosocial needs of individuals affected by humanitarian emergencies. Crises such as natural disasters, conflicts, and public health emergencies cause emotional distress, with one in five individuals experiencing a mental health condition. Supporting the…
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World Diabetes Day (WDD) (November 14)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign, reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in over 160 countries. It is marked every yearon November 14, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.…
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World AIDS Day (December 1)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 World AIDS Day is a global movement to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Since 1988, communities have stood together on World AIDS Day to show strength and solidarity against HIV stigma and to remember lives lost. The Adventist church supports the work…
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The Lift Project
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 This is an evidence-based resource that has been demonstrated to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of participants. With the mission of lifting livesthrough engaging, evidence-based wellbeing education, the Lift Project is being used globally, inspiring people to live happier, healthier, and more hopeful lives. Learn…
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Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025 Prayer and Meditation can support mental health. in 2021, there were an estimated 57.8 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with some form of mental illness. This number represented 22.8% of all U.S. adults. They struggled with depression, anxiety or obsessive compulsive…
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Flourishing in a Broken World
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2025 We are constantly reminded that we are living in a broken world. As I write this message, major war is ongoing in at least six countries with thousands of people affected. Uncertainty, chaos, hopelessness, and despair are a reality for many people living under fire. But…
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (July 30)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2025 This year’s global campaign for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons theme is “Human trafficking is Organized Crime – End the Exploitation.” This year’s campaign highlights the vital role of law enforcement and the criminal justice system in dismantling organized trafficking networks while ensuring a victim-centered…
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World Humanitarian Day (August 19)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2025 Over 130 million people throughout the world are currently in crisis, either through war or natural disasters, and need humanitarian aid. The purpose of World Humanitarian Day is to raise awareness of the plight of civilians around the world who have become caught up in conflicts…
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ENDitNOW Sabbath (August 26).
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2025 Emphasis Day is on the Adventist church’s calendar and falls on the fourth Sabbath of August. General Conference Women’s Ministries coordinates the production and distribution of the Enditnow® Emphasis Day resource packets with contributions from six additional co-sponsoring departments of the General Conference: Children’s Ministries, Education,…
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Fun wellness video spots for use
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2025 Facts with Hope are a series of 49 one-minute video spots featuring various topics of whole person health. These videos offer a health-related “fact” based on scientific evidence, and then the “hope” enforcing healthy living principles and a call to action. The videos can be shared…
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Expanding the Mission of Healing
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 Adventist colleges and universities that offer health professions education programs serve as extraordinary spaces where “preaching, teaching, and healing” harmoniously converge. They hold the potential to mirror the way Jesus ministered to humanity’s needs during His time on earth noted in the biblical account: “And Jesus…
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World Health Day (April 7)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 This year’s special day will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health…
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World Immunization Week (April 24-30)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Since 1974, vaccination has saved 154 million lives – that’s more than 3 million lives a year or six people…
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