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.
March 15, 2019
We’re told again and again that “diets don’t work.” So what are we supposed to do?
June 18, 2016
Jill Bernheimer did it because she missed the camaraderie and shared mission of her college lacrosse team.
May 7, 2016
There are gyms that cost as little as $10 a month, and Zumba classes for around $5.
May 7, 2016
We Angelenos are led to believe that we don’t walk much.
March 19, 2016
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.
Jan. 23, 2016
Just thinking about a relatively new sort of yoga, called aerial yoga, made my heart race.
Dec. 5, 2015
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.
Nov. 21, 2015
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.
Nov. 14, 2015
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.
Nov. 13, 2015