Mary MacVean

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.

We’re told again and again that “diets don’t work.” So what are we supposed to do?

Jill Bernheimer did it because she missed the camaraderie and shared mission of her college lacrosse team.

There are gyms that cost as little as $10 a month, and Zumba classes for around $5.

We Angelenos are led to believe that we don’t walk much.

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.

Just thinking about a relatively new sort of yoga, called aerial yoga, made my heart race.

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.

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.

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.