Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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Bush to Implement Most 9/11 Panel Reforms

Bush to Implement Most 9/11 Panel Reforms

Ten days after the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks issued its recommendations, President Bush today threw his support behind its two central proposals: creating a powerful chief of national intelligence, and establishing a new counterterrorism center.
Want to get off the diet merry-go-round? Maybe it’s time to try ‘mindful eating’

Want to get off the diet merry-go-round? Maybe it’s time to try ‘mindful eating’

We’re told again and again that “diets don’t work.” So what are we supposed to do?
When this L.A. personal trainer says ‘I’m here for you,’ her clients say she means it

When this L.A. personal trainer says ‘I’m here for you,’ her clients say she means it

Jill Bernheimer did it because she missed the camaraderie and shared mission of her college lacrosse team.
7 tips to hiring the best personal trainer — for you

7 tips to hiring the best personal trainer — for you

There are gyms that cost as little as $10 a month, and Zumba classes for around $5.
Concrete hiking: We walked Wilshire Boulevard, end to end. Here’s what happened

Concrete hiking: We walked Wilshire Boulevard, end to end. Here’s what happened

We Angelenos are led to believe that we don’t walk much.
Relax with a bath ... of sound. Its practitioners say it’s like a massage or meditation.

Relax with a bath ... of sound. Its practitioners say it’s like a massage or meditation.

Think of a sound bath, practitioners say, as a massage or a meditation, with sounds washing over you and running through you, sometimes feeling too big for the room.
Are you brave enough to get off the ground with aerial yoga?

Are you brave enough to get off the ground with aerial yoga?

Just thinking about a relatively new sort of yoga, called aerial yoga, made my heart race.
It doesn’t have to hurt: How to use soft rollers and balls to gently melt away aches and pains

It doesn’t have to hurt: How to use soft rollers and balls to gently melt away aches and pains

All sorts of fitness buffs have taken to using foam rollers on backs and arms and legs, but it’s often a no-pain, no-gain venture.
The gym comes to you with the rolling L.A. workout studio G.I.T. Fit

The gym comes to you with the rolling L.A. workout studio G.I.T. Fit

If your workout excuse is it’s too far, time-consuming or inconvenient to get to the gym, then Matt Rolph just might leave you with no excuse whatsoever.
Is this the funnest workout in L.A.? Sweat like a dancer in Derrick Garcia’s rhythmic exercise class

Is this the funnest workout in L.A.? Sweat like a dancer in Derrick Garcia’s rhythmic exercise class

I can’t imagine there’s a workout in L.A. that’s any more fun than Derrick Garcia’s Make Me Sweat class at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, a dance school that also has fitness classes.