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News 'Celebrating Strong Women' at JCC Healthy Women symposium By Stacey Dresner WOODBRIDGE - For the past six years, the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven has offered local women a chance to spend an entire day focusing on their own health and wellness.Over the years, this day- long women's health symposium - "Healthy Women/Healthy Lives" - has touched on a variety of issues that affect women, like heart disease, breast cancer, as well as diet, nutrition, and exercise.This year the theme of the symposium, to be held on Sunday, April 2 from 9:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m., is "Celebration Strong Women."The day will feature several keynote speakers, including well-known radio talk show host Faith Middleton, who will speak on the "Goodness of Ordinary People and Leading a Positive Life."Other speakers will include Dr.

Rosalyn Chosak, a self-described "physician, Jewish mother and grandmother" who will talk in the morning about "Women in their Prime: Sex and Menopause" and Dr.

David J.

Goodkind of Yale who will give an afternoon talk on "Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery: Expectations and Myths."Doris Greenberg of New Haven, one of the chairs of the program, along with Jan Miller and Stephanie Wain, M.D., was a founder of "Healthy Women/Healthy Lives" back in 2000.

Greenberg, who also sits on the National Board of Hadassah and is chair of its "Check it Out" health awareness program for teens, said that the goal of the sympo...

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