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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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.
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We’re told again and again that “diets don’t work.” So what are we supposed to do?
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Jill Bernheimer did it because she missed the camaraderie and shared mission of her college lacrosse team.
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There are gyms that cost as little as $10 a month, and Zumba classes for around $5.
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We Angelenos are led to believe that we don’t walk much.
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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.
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Just thinking about a relatively new sort of yoga, called aerial yoga, made my heart race.
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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.
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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.
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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.