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Karen Maleck-Whiteley: Try making a resolution every day this year
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
New year, new you!
It is a new year and time for a new you! Quoting Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, "If what you were doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it." Let me ask you something - What was your weight/clothing size at the start of 2009? What weight/clothing size did you finish at in 2009? If you do not have the body you want, the energy you ...
A hypnotic way to work out issues
A woman suffered from a skin condition that left a nasty rash covering her entire body. When she went to the doctor, he prescribed her a cream. Weeks went by and she returned. The rash was still present.
Lori Hanson: Five tips to stop the holiday sugar train
Are you nervous about the holiday parties, food, family and added stress? Many people are torn between love of the season, and agonizing over the extra five to ten pounds they know they will gain between now and January.
An unlikely triathlete
He thought he was buying a personal training package for his wife Stella. That's why Jim Pilarski bid $1,200 on the live auction item at the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley fundraiser in June.
Patients return for ‘Healthy Homecoming’
Celebrating independence was the theme of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital's annual Healthy Homecoming, a popular event that reunites former trauma and acute rehabilitation patients with their caregivers.
Sock-eez invention helps with difficult task
When Dennis Recchia saw his elderly mother struggling to remove the compression hose prescribed as a result of her medical problems his creative mind sprang to action.
Filmmaker leaves ‘Mark’ with documentary
As a child, Diane Israel's home life was unmanageable - clinically depressed mother, mentally disabled brother and a domineering father who pushed her to the emotional brink.
Karen Maleck-Whiteley: Safely ride the “bullet train” to the holidays
As my friend Carol said on Facebook this morning, we've just boarded the bullet train to the end of the year.
A survivor’s message of hope
At 41, Kim Smith had it all - loving family, flourishing career, and a body so fine, she was a regular model in "Shape" magazine.
Scary contact lenses
Costume contact lenses may be the perfect touch to your Halloween costume but the California Optometric Association (COA) warns that by using them without first visiting an optometrist, you are risking permanent eye damage. Federal law requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate cosmetic lenses as medical devices, similar to corrective lenses. However, these lenses continue to be illegally marketed and distributed directly to consumers.
Dentists offer cash for candy
One area dentist is redefining the phrase "put your money where your mouth is." This Halloween, trick-or-treaters can bring in their excess candy to the office of Drs. Allen and Kelly Smudde in Valencia and receive $1 per pound of candy.
Newhall Memorial offers free depression screenings
Depression. Though it effects nearly 19 million Americans, more than two-thirds of people that suffer from the condition never seek treatment.
'Vozdu' creates suspense
Most workouts don't advocate just hanging around. Vozdu, the suspended yoga program created by Lee and Debbie Park of Valencia's Aerial Experience Productions, encourages students to do precisely that. Knotted bolts of soft tricot cloth are strewn across a metal staging truss in the large gym, approximately three feet off the ground, for students to suspend from during the 50-minute class at the Industrial Center location. Vozdu, "the Russian word for air," Lee Park said, ...
For the love of mud
Mark Twain once said: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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