Los Angeles Times

October 11, 1999

More Americans are living longer lives than ever before. Knowledge is the key to ensuring those lives are healthy and productive--knowledge about nutrition, preventive health care, and the latest breakthroughs in medicine. This first Los Angeles Times Festival of Health is part of our ongoing effort to provide the essential information you need to help make your life the healthiest it can be.

Whether your interest is cardiac health, the newest breast cancer information, overcoming depression, yoga or meditation, alternative therapies, healthy cooking, child care, or exercise and fitness, one of our 45 panels or workshops is sure to meet your needs. Times’ Health Editor David Olmos and his staff have assembled a top-notch team of health experts, authors and columnists to bring you the latest health and lifestyle information available.

This special section is your passport to that wealth of information. I encourage you to use it as a valuable resource, both for the health tips and information it provides as well as for the festival. It includes complete speakers’ and activities schedules, including exercise demonstrations, soccer and volleyball clinics, bicycle stunt shows, and musical entertainment.

During this two-day festival, some of Southern California’s leading health-care organizations will make available a wide range of health services, including immunizations, cancer screening and blood testing. We urge you to take advantage of these services.

We look forward to seeing you at USC.

Sincerely,

Kathryn M. Downing,

Publisher,

Los Angeles Times