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South L.A. Halloween carnival to stress healthy eating
L.A. NOWFruit and vegetables will replace candy as the tasty treat for scores of South Los Angeles children this Friday during the first Healthy Halloween Carnival. Children are being encouraged to dress up as their favorite fruit or vegetable and attend...... -
Book review: 'Moonlight Mile' by Dennis Lehane
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFor the last decade, Dennis Lehane has been resolute in interviews and appearances that Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, the popular private-eye team who starred in his first five books, weren't returning any time soon. But like any smart author worth...Tags: Entertainment, Eyewear
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Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys
The Big PictureCorrection: In writing about a scene from Tom Shadyac's new film, "I Am," I inaccurately transcribed a line of dialog. When Shadyac talks about his agent, he actually says: "My agent. A source of stress in show business!" My apologies....... -
Obama on his embattled budget: Let's talk, but....
Top of the TicketObama full text of news conference as he defends his budget and talks of Egypt.... -
Using video to fight workplace stress
In the eight years Krista Lang Blackwood has been artistic director of a nonprofit choral group, she's heard it all: prospective donors asking again and again why they can't get comped concert tickets, or why money should go to singers when there are...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Psychology, Apple iPhone, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Notes on a Year: Mark Swed on classical music
"In the Middle Ages," Sara Maitland writes in her brilliant "A Book of Silence," "Christian scholastics argued that the devil's basic strategy was to bring human beings to a point where they are never alone with their God, nor ever attentively face to...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Yale University, Religious Festivals, BBC
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The success recipe for fitness: Mix in the fun
Put away the eggnog and break out the tennis shoes — it's New Year's resolution time, and no doubt millions have made the pledge to get fit. Many of them will join a gym only to find they're bored with the monotony of cardio equipment and weight...Tags: Sports, Family, Muscle, Entertainment, Colleges and Universities
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Kayaking: Get in touch with nature and tone your upper body
Richard Hamlin recalls his initial reaction when his wife suggested they take a kayaking trip while in the San Juan Islands: "I said, 'No, it looks like work.'"
He was half right. Kayaking can be work — as in a great workout — but it can also...Tags: Sports, Health, Canoeing and Kayaking, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Viagra can help with altitude sickness, report says
I have heard that Viagra is effective for altitude sickness. Is this true?
Viagra is best known as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. But there are reports that it has off-label uses in treating a number of other conditions, including pulmonary...Tags: Bananas, Human Body, Health and Medical Professionals, Viagra (drug), Heart Disease
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Tears for more than fears
Special to The TimesI cry. At mushy Hallmark commercials in which the son finally gets home on Christmas Eve. At weddings because everybody's so happy. At funerals because everybody's so sad. Even watching the Olympics, when I bond with the skaters who get teary because...Tags: Stanford University, Biology, Colleges and Universities, Depression, Charles Darwin
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Demystifying the cardiac stress test
Chicago TribuneDr. Marc Wallack routinely passed his cardiac exercise stress test with flying colors. He was, after all, a veteran marathon runner with respectable cholesterol and blood pressure numbers. But as many heart disease patients discover, a treadmill analysis...Tags: Sports, Angiograms, Symptoms, Heart Attack, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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The basics of blood pressure
Blood circulating through your body moves with a certain force -- that's your blood pressure. This force can be affected by how strongly the heart is pumping and by the size of the vessels the blood is moving through. Blood moves through large arteries...Tags: Minority Groups, High Blood Pressure, Salt, Social Issues, National or Ethnic Minorities
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