Backyard Bootcamp offers varied challenges for adults
      Owner Leslie Maltz of Backyard Bootcamp has designed a program of varied and demanding workouts which challenge participants of all levels while providing a safe and supportive environment for adults. Each month Maltz and instructor Jesse Wright lead a group of bootcampers toward...
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How to fit into those skinny jeans
      Monika Klein, local clinical nutritionist and lifestyle coach, is launching Coaching For Health's Skinny Jeans Jumpstart Program through the end of January. This program is a deprivationfree approach to eating that will get dieters back into their skinny jeans.
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Healthy Living Today
By Ian Taras, M.D. Special to The Acorn
      Plastic surgery for the uterus- that's the way some coyly describe endometrial ablation, but for the potential halfmillion women who are mostly aged 40 to 55 for whom this 10minute procedure could lessen the need for a hysterectomy, this is no laughing matter.
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Self-help movie focuses on healing
      The Westlake Church of Religious Sciences will host a fundraising event to screen "You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie" at 7 p.m. tonight, Thurs., Jan. 17, at 880 Hampshire Road, Ste. 8. "You Can Heal Your Life" is hosted by self-help author Louise L. Hay and directed by Emmy award-winner...
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January is National Blood Donor Month
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com
      January, National Blood Donor Month, was acknowledged last week by the Agoura Hills City Council. Mayor John Edelston, president and CEO of HealthPro Associates, Inc. presented a proclamation to an American Red Cross representative at the council meeting, and encouraged citizens to donate bloo...
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Support groups for depression, bipolar disorder scheduled to meet
      The local chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance hosts two support groups in Ventura. One group meets 6:30 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday at Bible Fellowship Church, 6950 Ralston Street, Room 301 of Building 300.
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