Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 10
Label: Southern Progress
Magazine Type: Time magazine
Manufacturer: Southern Progress
Number Of Issues: 20
Publisher: Southern Progress
Release Date: 2001-11-23
Studio: Southern Progress
Subscription Length: 730

Health is the smart woman's guide to life, covering beauty, well-being, fitness, and food/nutrition with intelligence, flair, and credibility. The magazine's lifestyle approach makes it a pleasure to read, not a duty. Health provides a sense of community along with empowering information, powerful narrative, and compelling art-all to reinforce the message that healthy living is the way to feel and look your very best.

Customer Rating:
Summary: For the 'real' person, who is trying to be or stay healthy.
Comment: I was given HEALTH magazine as a gift, and have enjoyed six months worth at the present time. I'm a 40 something, formerly fit mother who still believes in herself enough to know that someday...I can be 'fit' again. This magazine seems right up my alley. It addresses common health issues with clear, short articles and yet isn't packed with ads so that the articles get lost. Some recipes, some exercises, some discussions, while remaining entertaining too.

You would be wasting your money if you are already fitness oriented and off to the gym to meet your trainer, but if you are in need of an encouraging, helpful, entertaining read that will inspire versus guilt you into getting healthier, this magazine is for you.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: To my health!!
Comment: This is my favorite health magazine. It has lots of articles with a little bit of advertising. Very beneficial with up to date knowledge. Love it!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Women's Health
Comment: For so many years, women did not have information about their health issues in magazines or books. This is one of the best sources I have found for reliable information. Health [2-year subscription]

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Renewing, but not ecstatic
Comment: I came to the site to renew, and will. I am only giving three stars because while I think that I routinely gain a great deal of useful information from the magazine, I don't like having to work my way through quite so much politically correct, definitely left leaning, verbiage to get at it. I haven't noticed much in the way of bias in favor of advertisers' products. Actually it seems fairly balanced that way. Of course they have advertising, and of course sometimes an article might mention something positively. That might actually mean that the product is a good one. I have noticed that products are criticized also. I subscribe to several magazines of this type so that I can gather information from multiple sources. All in all, I've decided that it is worth the subscription rate (though it annoys me some), but probably not worth the cover price.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Health Advice with Modern Appeal
Comment: Should you try out the hotel hot tub while on vacation or try the pool instead? This magazine has excellent advice for everything from travel concerns to fitness and beauty advice.

Recipes for natural salt scrubs with buttermilk mingle with the hottest advice on commercial beauty products. Do the new stick-on manicures work? What is the newest information on cancer prevention?

Dr. Andrew Weil has a 5-minute section with holistic-health advice where he explains why Wild Alaskan salmon and blueberries will keep skin youthful. Is the air in your home as clean as it could be?

Fun product pages offer seasonal comforts. For summer you may find yourself looking up beach blankets and fans. Special sections show you how to lose weight, even when on vacation. Interesting advice on how to beat stress and why you should find ways to increase the release of oxytocin.

The only thing in the magazine of concern seems to be the advice section which I read, but take some of her advice with a big pinch of salt. If someone thinks they are suffering from an addiction, they probably are. I'm at times rather surprised by her answers that seem to lean towards a casual approach to serious life-changing situations, although she seems to give women great advice about health issues when it comes to making them feel better about breast cancer or work situations.

~The Rebecca Review

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