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Page 8. Portland Observer. April 3, 1965 E M M A 'S KITCHEN Healthwatch SOUL FOOD by Steven Bailey N . D. by Robert l.othtan Welfare benefits dropped by al most 22 percent in the last 12 years, according to a study by the House Ways and Means Committee. fa ilu re o f states to keep benefits in line with inflation and President Rea gan's 1981 welfare amendments were the main reasons for the reduction, according to the study. The value o f welfare and food stamp benefits for a fam ily o f four dropped 21.8 percent nationwide be tween 1972 and 1984, said the study. In 1984, benefits averaged $6,995, according to the study, almost $2,000 lower than the 1972 high o f $8,894. Benefits rose steadily through the 1960s and early 1970s, it reported. Purchasing power for welfare fam ilies dropped in each o f the 48 conti nental states, the study found. On the average, a working welfare mother with three children and an in come o f hall the federal poverty level, had 28.5 percent less purchasing power in 1984 than in 1972, it said. Other reasons cited fo r the reduc tion were higher social security and personal income taxes. Portland welfare officials were un able to verify the findings o f the House study locally. l^irry Boyles, supervisor o f the Southwest Portland office o f the Adult and fa m ily Services Division, did say that new requirements and ending the W IN program had elim inated some people from welfare rolls. At the Multi-Service Center at Alberta and Vancouver, a woman with a little boy cried as she left an interview. She had applied for as sistance, but was turned down be cause her papers weren’t in order. She said she would have to wan long er for the benefits even though she needed them immediately. “ I believe they should just quit giving people hassles just to get ‘ ‘on welfare,” she said. ‘ ‘ I want a stable job . but they just aren't hiring.’ ’ “ It's definitely down, food stamps is down, everything is down,” said another woman. A nurse, she hurl her back lifting a patient. She now receives benefits for herself and two daughters “ I can’t live on $328 a m onth,” she said “ And there's no way you can life and feed your kids with that $145 a month in food stamps they give you.” “ You end up living in dumps with cockroaches and mice because you can’t afford a decent place. They treat you like animals here,” she added. "They herd you in and herd you out." 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Sunday 1 p.m. - 12a.m. Closed Monday __________________________________________________________________ I About 30,000 Oregon households will see a decrease in their A p ril food stamp benefits due Io lowet allow ances for utility costs during the sum mer months. The average decrease in monthly benefits w ill be $15 per household. The guest speaker at the general meeting o f the North-Northeast Busi ness Boaters will be Representative Margaret Carter, District 18. The meeting is scheduled for Tues day, A p ril 9, 1985, at 12 noon, at the Viscount Hotel, 1441 N.E. 2nd and Weidler. Lunch will be available, cost $6 00 Make reservations by calling 240-5323. 1329 N.E. Frem ont • 281-2560 I Welfare benefits decreasing worse by movement o f any kind. She docs not get more limber with con tinued movement. Her joints are improved by rest, and interestingly, site feels better if her knees have pres sure on them. She is thirsty although not for milk and has an irritable na ture. Is this the same disease? Both these patients have different physical symp toms and a different personality. The diagnosis o f arthritis is the same for both, but each manifests his or her sickness in a unique way. What we have in each patient is an individual ized manifestation o f imbalance They are both sick but in different ways. And accordingly, our homeo pathic medicine is different for each o f them. Lor personalized and wholistic health-care, both you and your doctor must pay close attention to everything that is being expressed by your body and mind and emotions. Your fatigue and your fears, your appetites and your energy level: this is the language that your body speaks. The unique and peculiar symptoms help fill in the broad picture that includes your whole life. It is your capacity to indi vidualize your symptoms that can lead you to greater health and free dom. This is the wholistic approach to health-care. At its root is the central idea that is as old as the art o f healing itself: that each person, each organ ism, has at a deep level the w ill and wisdom to be healthy. It is the aim o f the true healer to enlist that wis dom in effecting a cure. A Cía t ! Must o f the time we take our bodies for granted When they work well, they do thetr duties and perform ne cessary tasks for us, and we have little regard for maintenance or long term use. We go about daily life as i f our bodies cannot make suggestions to us, or ask us for anything or communi cate to us at all. The truth is, that your body is talking to you all the time in every minute o f the day in a number ol ways. It talks to you through pain and sensations It talks to you through symptoms. Symptoms are very important, and labeled in our modern disease-care system, for example, as an “ ulcer," and given the same ulcer medicine as other ulcer patients. A wholistic concept includes a lit tle bit more. Your symptoms tell us a lot about you. They are your way o f expressing a deeper disturbance >n your whole system. A ll o f your sensa tions are important to your wholistic doctor, because your entire personal ity is involved, and your inherited constitution, your nutritional status, and many other factors. As many mental, emotional, and physical fac tors are considered as possible. Consider, for example, two people with arthritis. To the conventional doctor, arthritis is arthritis, and each person would receive essentially the same treatment. A wholistic doctor, however, treats the person and not the diagnosis, although a diagnosis is made in every case. The following descriptions illustrate the type o f inform ation that is important to a doctor who uses homeopathic medi cines (a wholistic medicine). The first patient is a laborer who has worked hard all his life physical ly. His hip and knee joints are s tiff and painful, especially upon first moving in the morning. He finds that once he is "lim bered u p " everything is not so stiff, and so he likes to stay active. He feels better with warm ap plications as well. He is a person in gixxl humor most o f the time, and he has a strong desire for milk The second patient has the same diagnosis (but different symptoms). She, too, is s tiff and achy, but is made Plenty of Free Parking 8 03 1 678 tSKM) FredMeyer IONE-STOP SHOPPING J CENTER Sale CbR ‘ fey Adam I .add, N. D. particularly unique symptoms. It is common to think that a pain is a pain, and that all headaches are basi cally the same, but they're not Every patient has symptoms which are a lit tle different from those o f another person And why not? They are d if ferent people. When asked questions like: what is the quality o f the pain (does it ache, or burn, or dig in?) or asked the time o f day when it is bettet or worse, everyone begins to realize that there is a distinct aspect to their complaints. Not all pains arc alike, and no two headaches are alike. But very few people realize how important their symptoms are. One o f the keys to a healthy life is to be able to learn the language o f your own body. If you can listen to your aches and pains, and watch your body, and observe changes, you will see how dynamic and unique the symptoms can be. You will be learn ing the language o f your body. It is the way yiiur body expresses itself in its attempt to slay well. Lor all symp toms are related to the reactive and healthy response o f your system to a disease process. Historically there have been two main opposing viewpoints about what pain and symptoms mean. The conventional concept says that symp toms arc I lie disease itself. Hierc is no need to individualize symptoms be cause patients are seen as "cases’ * ol a "diseuse." Conventional doctors have no interest in the aspects that make you different from all other cases o f the same "disease." 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