Today's Bestselling Health Magazines

Who Reads Men’s Journal?
Written for adventurous men, Men’s Journal describes its readers as interested in outdoor experiences, health and fitness, style and fashion, and cutting-edge gear--men determined to "Live the Adventurous Life."

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Style: Editors hand-pick the most stylish and current attire for your wardrobe, for every season.
• Gear guide: Equipment and accessories you'll need for all adventures, big or small.
• Health and Fitness: Ways to stay in shape during the cold winter months and hot summer sweats.

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Special Issues Through the Year:

• The Life List Issue: Creating the list of “things to do before you die” is the heart of this issue, targeted to the adventurous readers of Men’s Journal.
• Perfect Things: A signature issue for Men’s Journal, it features the best boys’ toys, everything from the latest gadgets to signature suits.
• The Adventure Issue: In the biggest issue of the first half of the year, Men’s Journal travels the globe for the best experiences at both ends of the spectrum: rugged and most refined.
• 50 Best Places to Live: “Best Places to Live” features the best cities to live life to the fullest.
• Your Best Summer Ever: Men’s Journal’s must-haves for summer: the perfect combination of tackling rewarding new challenges and finding true relaxation.
• Sports: Geared towards fall sports, when NFL and college football are just underway, NBA and Hockey are getting into gear, and baseball is in the midst of the playoffs, this issue focuses on all the greatest athletes and sporting events coming up.
• Winter Fun and Travel: In our annual winter adventure preview, we feature the best ways to make the most of the season with exclusive mountaintop resorts, the hottest ski bars, and the warmest winter gear.
• The Best Issue: Men’s Journal presents the best in dining, nightlife, the outdoors, vacation hotspots, and everything else our readers are passionate about. Industry experts and real readers with first-hand knowledge give you their insights into the best.

Who Reads Vegetarian Times?
Vegetarian Times is written for those at the forefront of the healthy living movement. Published nine times a year, it provides delicious recipes, expert wellness information, and environmentally sound lifestyle solutions for both full-time and part-time vegetarians. Replete with beautiful photography and articles from leading experts, Vegetarian Times will be of interest to anyone with a passion for eating healthy while staying environmentally conscious.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Health: Vital food, health, and nutrition news. Nutritionists and doctors answer questions about vegetarian lifestyles.
• Eco-Beauty: Presenting environmentally friendly, cruelty-free beauty buys.
• Quick: All about making great tasting meals in not a lot of time. Expect to read about healthful and delicious 30 minute meals, and dishes you can make using just 5 ingredients.
• Life--Carrot and Stick: Who walks the walk and who's nothing but talk. Tips to make your habitat healthier and become more eco-enlightened travelers
• Cuisine: Editors find creative new ways to incorporate your favorite flavors into dishes.
• Vegan Gourmet: Our popular plant-based column.
• Features: From recipe contests to eco-friendly advise, features run the gamut of information that vegetarians crave most. Recent stories have included "10 Ways to Green your Fridge," "South American Superfoods," and "Earth to Table Herbs.”

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Contributors:
Contributors range from Restaurateurs, chefs, nutritionists, artists. These people are carefully selected for their passion and knowledge of vegetarian food and the accompanying lifestyle.

Magazine Layout
Each issue features beautiful food photography, focusing on a soft palette of colors for long reading sessions.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
The magazine is written for both vegetarians and flexitarians alike. It promotes a healthy vegetarian lifestyle without putting guilt on those who eat meat. The editors strive to bring readers articles in a positive light without preaching and politics.

Advertising
Readers will find advertisements mainly from companies making vegetarian foods products. Additional frequent advertisements include supplements, cruelty-free beauty products and eco-friendly products. Most advertisements include a "Reader Service" option so readers may request more information about specific products.

Who Reads Backpacker?
Backpacker is written for readers who love outdoor adventure. Backpacker readers are serious about their passion for the outdoors, whether it be a simple day hike or an all out backpacking trek. Published 9 times a year, Backpacker provides expert information on the best trails in America, including GPS coordinates to get readers to the most remote and beautiful places nature has to offer.

In 2008, Backpacker teamed up with San Francisco based firm Cooler to calculate their carbon footprint. Realizing that they were putting 5 million pounds of CO2 into the air each year, Backpacker took measures to reduce their carbon footprint, and combined with investment in renewable energy, has efficiently become a carbon neutral publication.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Readers can look forward to reading Basecamp, which stuffs exactly what readers need without an extra ounce of verbiage. The Basecamp section includes:

• Tripfinder: Match three different destinations with three different timeframes to determine your best adventure trip.
• 5 Minute Meals: Taste-tested recipes to make backcountry cooking easier.
• Life List: A concise, inspiring description of everything you need to pull off a once in a lifetime trip.
• Start Smart: Where new hikers come to learn essential camping skills.
• The Next Level: More experienced readers can learn advanced, multi-sport skills.
• Features: Ranging from Backpacker's stories of adventures on America's trails to gear reviews. The annual Gear Guide with over 250 reviews is always popular with readers. Other recent features have been a Life List of 47 must-do trips and 15 amazing flora a fauna spectacles.

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Magazine Layout:
The editors strive to pack as much information as possible into each issue. The layout offers beautiful landscape photography related to articles. Readers will also find the illustrated diagrams helpful and intuitive to follow.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Backpacker is for the ultimate adventurers. Other magazines in its class tend to focus more on camping and casual outdoor activity, while Backpacker covers everything from the simple day hike to the most extreme mountain treks.

Advertising:
Readers can expect to find the advertising specific to the outdoor and recreation industry. Most ads relate to either backpacking gear or foods, with the occasional automobile or travel ad geared towards the adventurous consumer.

Awards:
In 2006, Backpacker won a prestigious National Magazine Award. Backpacker's Basecamp department was honored as the best magazine section within the industry. In 2007, Backpacker was named a National Magazine Award Finalist in the Single-Topic Issue category, which honored the ambition, comprehensiveness and imagination of the recent "Survival" issue.

Who Reads Health?
Health Magazine's readers are smart empowered women who know that healthy = happy. They turn to Health for fresh ideas and inspiration on how to make the healthy life truly irresistible. The magazine's unique 360-degree approach ensures that Health covers its readers' many interests: cutting-edge health advice, natural beauty moves, home remedies that work, celebrity weight-loss secrets, healthy travel, organic and low-fat food, new time-saving workouts, body-flattering fashion, and much more.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Health Now: In this front-of-book section, Health's editors hand-pick the best new tips, tricks, and updates that will help readers live healthier.
• Healthy Beauty: Simple secrets to great hair, gorgeous skin, easy makeup, and figure-flattering style.
• Healthy Shape: Safe, doable weight-loss plans, plus the trick to getting fit without the gym, eating light on the go, and enjoying tasty snacks under 80 calories.
• Healthy Inside: Smart and reassuring medical advice that makes every reader feel in control of her health. Favorite columns include Your Embarrassing Questions, and Your Body at 30, 40, 50+.
• Healthy Eating: Every issue, Health features delicious, easy, and good-for-you food. Readers also will find wine picks, no-guilt treats, and quick recipes from famous guest chefs such as Sandra Lee and Jamie Oliver.
• The Guide: Your ultimate handbook to top-of-mind subjects—from food safety to a great night's sleep.
• Feature Articles: Health covers a wide range of topics including health, diet, fitness, beauty, food, fashion, strHEA-relief, home, money, travel, natural living, and healthy Hollywood. Recent stories include: Your Body: What's Normal, What's Not; Find Your Naturally Gorgeous Colors; Lose 10 Pounds... And Never Feel Hungry; Five Ways to Fall Asleep Faster; The Best Jeans for Your Body; 7 Women's Health Problems Doctors Still Miss; Surprising Benefits of Wine; Eat Better without Trying; and Found: The $4 Healthy Meal.

Magazine Layout:
Health features a clean modern design that is easy to navigate and exciting, vibrant visuals that make the magazine fun to read.

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Contributors
Health contributors share something special: their warm, clear, and engaging voice, which makes any topic fascinating—whether it's which spa treatments work or how to prevent breast cancer at any age. Health Magazine's writers include bestselling novelists like Jancee Dunn and Megan McCafferty, award-winning health journalists like Ginny Graves, TV personalities such as Bethenny Frankel, registered dieticians like Senior Food and Nutrition Editor Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, and medical doctors, including Health's own Medical Editor Roshini Rajapaksa, MD. And Health's exclusive recipe developers and guest chefs like Bobby Flay and Nigella Lawson contribute delicious recipes that are simple, and low-fat.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Health Magazine celebrates the joy of feeling great, and this is what makes it stand out from other health and fitness magazines. The magazine approaches weight-loss the way its readers do: as a way to be healthy, not get skinny. Health's friendly and reassuring tone is also unique, and it helps readers feel happy and in control. Health's contributors and experts test all the products and tips before recommending them, so the reader comes away with solutions that actually work, as well as fresh ways to make healthy living a whole lot of fun.

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Advertisers:
Health advertisers are all healthy brands that help our readers feel and look their best. They include natural foods companies, good-for-you beauty and personal-care brands, over-the-counter and prescription drugs that prevent or treat common conditions affecting women, fitness apparel, and healthy home products.

Awards:
In the last two years, Health Magazine has won a FOLIO Eddie & Ozzie award and been nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) award for excellence in personal service journalism.

Who Reads Yoga Journal?
Yoga Journal is for both the beginning and advanced practitioner, and the casual and committed reader.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Basics: Yoga Journal's most popular column, Basics makes yoga asana and philosophy accessible to students who are new to the practice and long-time practitioners looking for a refresher course.
• Eating Wisely: How we eat is a reflection of how we live, and for yogis, this means making thoughtful decisions about what goes on the menu. Eating Wisely examines the deep connections between spirit and food.
• Home Practice: Starting a home practice can be a big challenge for yogis. Personal Practice provides all the tools readers need to roll out their mats at home.
• Master Class: Offers in-depth instruction for the serious practitioner. Written by authoritative master yoga teachers.
• Media: A critical discussion of the latest and most noteworthy books, music, DVDs, videos, and audiotapes.
• Om: High-energy and fun to read, Om tells readers all they need to know about trends, news, fashion, people, places, and things that make the world of yoga fun and rewarding.
• Features: Features always look at some aspect of yoga, whether for physical, emotional, or spiritual well being. Some current examples: Creating a Yoga space at home; using yoga to release yourself from addiction.

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Contributors:
Most contributors are writers who have a long-established yoga practice. Current writers include Stacie Stukin, Hillari Dowdle, Dayna Macy, Nora Isaacs, and more.

Magazine Layout:
It is clean, featuring magnificent original illustrations and photos. It is more text than visual, with the visual in service of the article, and the reader's pleasure.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Yoga Journal is the most widely read and respected yoga magazine in the country. There are other yoga magazines but they are largely regional.

Advertising:
National advertisers across many categories including Aveda, Sigg, Lululemon Athletica, Ford, Eileen Fisher, and more.

Who Reads Cooking Light?
Cooking Light is a trusted source for those who want to cook and enjoy healthy, delicious food. Whether you’re in a hurry to prepare a quick and easy dinner tonight or need a game plan for the perfect party, Cooking Light offers nutritious, kitchen-tested recipes for every day living or special occasions. And whether you’re a novice or an adventurous cook you’ll find great food and healthy lifestyle tips in every issue.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Detailed information, illustration, and photography that provides an understanding of the tools, materials and techniques required to renovate a home, as well as how to work more effectively with architects, contractors, and designers. Regular sections:

• Recipe Index is positioned immediately after the Table of Contents and includes recipe listings by category, including tags for Quick and Easy and Kid-friendly, as well as Staff Favorite recipes.
• Editors’ Dozen is a seasonally oriented selection of 13 fun and healthy food, fitness, and lifestyle items, products, and news.
• Superfast features 20-minute dishes that are simple, fresh, and easy entrées.
• The Stress-Free Zone provides strategies for dealing with everyday stressful situations, such as staying on schedule during a hectic morning, job interviews, medical tests, and more.
• Ask Our Dietician answers to questions from readers about their dietary dilemmas.
• Moves of the Month shows effective, simple workouts, along with gear and nutrition tips.
• Taste Test evaluates food products, such as pasta sauce or soy sauces and recommends those offering the best quality, value, and nutrition.
• Travel explores the flavors of top destinations, such as San Francisco or Atlanta, through its iconic dishes. Includes travel recommendations and recipes that exemplify the area’s cuisine.
• Wine matches favorite foods with appropriate wines. Seasonally chosen with references to recipes in the issue.
• Beauty offers ways to look younger and improve your appearance and well-being.
• Menu Navigator examines popular restaurant foods and helps you make the healthiest choices.
• New Uses for Everyday Ingredients discusses three common pantry ingredients and provides interesting and lesser known uses for each.
• Kitchen is a roundup of useful tools, including equipment, gadgets, and other favorites.
• Dinner Tonight is Cooking Light’s most popular department with 7 time-tested, fast meals with tips and game plans to make life easier. Plus shopping list.
• Nutrition Made Easy features healthy eating tips with recipes devoted to a single topic.
• Cooking Class shows step-by-step methods for making a popular comfort food, and provides ways to build on the basics for more creative variations.
• Recipe Makeover lightens a classic recipe but maintains all the taste of the traditional version.
• Budget Cooking offers recipes that feed 4 for under $10.
• Reader Recipes features the very best recipes from the more than 12 million readers of Cooking Light.
• Kitchen How-To illustrates quick cooking techniques.
• Everyday Vegetarian showcases vegetarian fare that suits the season.
• Recipe Hall of Fame highlights one recipe that is absolutely, positively best of class.
• Feature Articles in Cooking Light offer highly evocative and beautiful photos of food and recipes, and delve in depth with topics ranging from seasonal cuisine to nutrition, and from cooking instruction to profiles of intriguing people in the food world. The entire feature sections in our June and November issues are presented in cookbook format, as well as special sections on how to start the year out right and the best of the holidays.

Magazine Layout:
The new design of Cooking Light features photos with every recipe and a design format that emphasizes light and airy pages, brief text and fun graphics. The food comes alive on the pages thanks to vibrant colors and natural light settings, and cooking technique is made simple with step-by-step instructions that couldn’t be easier to follow. The focus is on reader service, and articles offer tips, shopping advice, nutrition facts, cooking short cuts, and hundreds of helpful bits that make Cooking Light a great learning tool and source of inspiration.

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Contributors:
Cooking Light contributors range from internationally renowned chefs to home cooks. They also include nutrition experts and award-winning science writers. A variety of best-selling cookbook authors and recipe developers are regular contributors, as well.

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Advertisers:
Cooking Light has top 5 advertising categories that reflect the magazine's editorial focus on healthy living. The top category is food and beverage followed by DTC/OTC, home, travel and beauty.

Awards:
Cooking Light is recognized as a trusted brand with a 22-year heritage. In 2008, Cooking Light received the Media Excellence Award from the American Dietetic Association, marking the first time the world's largest organization has presented the distinction to a consumer magazine. Over the years Cooking Light has been honored with multiple industry and consumer awards including: IACP Cookbook Award, Eddie Awards Gold Winner, AdWeek Hot List: Top 10 Magazines, Amazon.com's 4th Most popular subscription and MIN "Most Notable Launch of the Past Two Decades".

Cooking Light's brand power extends beyond the pages of the magazine, being named a 2009 Official Honoree by the prestigious Webby Awards.

Who Reads Men’s Health Magazine?
Men’s Health readers are active, successful, professional men who want greater control over their physical, mental and emotional lives. They are looking for in-depth reporting on everything from fashion and grooming to health and nutrition as well as cutting-edge gear, the latest in entertainment and more.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Fitness: Men’s Health knows total body fitness is not accomplished during the hour or two you spend at the gym three days a week. That’s why, in addition to the removable workout poster included in every issue, we also write about what you should be doing outside the gym, like catching the right amount of Z’s. And no, five hours per night is not enough.
• Nutrition: Quick and easy recipes paired with advice that will help you live longer and healthier. Our editor’s even throw in a selection from Eat This, Not That each month because we know life is too busy to never eat fast food.
• Sex & Relationships: Women are one life’s many mysteries, which is why Men’s Health is here to help. Our editor’s cover everything from how to bulletproof your relationship and keep your sexual attraction revved up to how to be her best ever. Need a specific question answered? Write to The Girl Next Door, editor Nicole Beland who sheds female insight on your most complex situations.
• Health: Our editors comb through the latest health news and report on topics most relevant to men like how to protect your prostate, lower your cholesterol and protect your manhood.

Feature Articles:

• Style Guide: Our editors take you step by step through the best new products and looks that will help get you out the door looking your best.
• Eat This, Not That! At the Supermarket: What you don’t know about your local market is making your fat. Men’s Health investigates how stores dupe you into paying top dollar for unhealthy foods. It’ll forever change the way you shop.
• How Fit Are You? : Men’s Health rounded up top athletes who set the bar in terms of speed, endurance, power, and agility and asked them how they got to the top. We know their secrets, now you can too.
• Secrets from America’s Top Gyms: The Men’s Health annual list of the best gyms in America. Plus, for 2009, we name the 50 top personal trainers in America and reveal their secrets for building muscle and shedding fat faster.
• Men and Their Cars: A Love Story: We know you love your car, but can you identify everything under the hood? We’ll show you how to take full advantage of that sports package you ponied up for.

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Who Reads Prevention Magazine?
Prevention provides lively, trusted, credible family health information that women need in an inviting, invigorating, approachable format. America's leading healthy lifestyle magazine is based on a simple and powerful promise: Make little changes, get big results. Prevention speaks to readers in a reassuring, familiar voice about family health, food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, cooking and more.

From easy-to-implement "quick tips" to award winning, cutting edge reporting, Prevention is uniquely positioned to tell readers: Here's what you really need to know, and here's what to do about it.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• News and trends: Prevention’s small doses of smart news are compelling, cutting-edge, and actionable. Because our readers want to take their health into their own hands, we cut through controversy and conflicting information to deliver the health research and trends.
• Beauty: Looking your best is the ultimate expression of good health. That’s why Prevention covers both the science and service of beauty, from high-tech to 100% natural. Through product reviews, expert advice, and investigative reporting, we tell our readers everything they need to know about looking and feeling great.
• Food: Prevention helps America’s healthiest chefs cook with confidence and eat with pleasure. We sort helpful science from hyped headlines, translating the latest nutrition and weight loss news into targeted diet and supplement advice. Prevention puts food news and trends into a real-life context with investigative stories, clip-and-save guides, diets that really work, and delicious, no-fuss recipes.
• Alternatives: Because a healthy life is a balanced life, Prevention delivers the best information on natural medicine. Research-supported news on herbal remedies and other alternative treatments empower readers to stay healthy naturally, and sensible, centering tips on stress reduction help them cope in ways that boost their health and their spirits.
• Fitness: Prevention inspires readers at all fitness levels to get and stay active—whether it’s transforming a couch potato or honing a marathoner. We turn the latest fitness research into fun, results-orient workouts and deliver motivation, practical advice to help make exercise a habit—and a fountain of youth.
• Family: We help readers make their home a comfort zone. From every room in the house to every member of the household, Prevention supplies practical advice to keep the whole family—kids and pets included—healthier and happier.

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Who Reads Women’s Health Magazine?
The Women’s Health brand is created for the woman who sees being healthy-physically and emotionally as her edge. Our readers are women who want to do more, have more and be more. It is a magazine that helps women stay on pace in their lives with practical advice on nutrition, fitness, sex and relationships, style and beauty and much more. Women’s Health speaks to women exactly as they speak to each other-with a tone and look that’s smart, positive, energizing, provocative, fashionable, surprising and humorous.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Women’s Health readers strive to better their whole lives. And that's exactly why Women’s Health reports on all the topics that interest them. In every issue you’ll find:

• Success Strategies
• Nutrition
• Weight Loss
• Fitness
• Special Reports
• Health
• Sex & Relationship
• Beauty Breakthroughs
• Style & Fashion

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Who Reads Outside Magazine?
Outside readers are passionately committed to leading an active lifestyle. Outside not only motivates readers to uncover and define their own personal day-to-day adventures, but also provides them with the tools, products and information to fulfill them.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Dispatches: The latest news and events in the world outside
• Media: This month in books, film, TV, and video
• Destinations: The hottest places around the world for active travel
• The Guide: Our exhaustive A-to-Z compendium on a variety of subjects that matter to our readers
• Bodywork: Fitness for the Outside athlete
• The Essentials: The latest gear, equipment, apparel, and electronics
• Exposure: World-class photography from all across the globe
• Feature Articles: Outside’s focus is on the highest-quality journalism on sports, adventure, political and environmental topics, health and fitness, and much more, with a strong dose of consumer service in every issue. Three recent issues contained feature articles on mountaineer and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, an A-to-Z description of an unprecedented El Capitan climb, a report on conservation in Brazil, a tale of murder by pirates off the coast of Mexico, a first-person account of the construction of a dream cabin in Patagonia, a behind-the-scenes look at bike manufacturer Specialized, and packages like the "Outside 100" year-in-review, a guide to nutrition, and a travel feature on 50 great places for getting lost.

Contributors:
The typical Outside contributor is a world-class journalist who bridges the worlds of high-caliber magazine writing and active participation in the outdoors. Our writers are in tune with great stories from every corner of the world, and they bring vigorous, fluid styles, wit, and unflappable reporting skills. Our regulars include Patrick Symmes, Ian Frazier, Hampton Sides, Wells Tower, Steven Rinella, Kevin Fedarko, and Bucky McMahon.


Magazine Layout:
Outside’s design is the visual synthesis of a three-decade tradition of literary journalism built on robust storytelling and inspiring service journalism. The layout and typography reflect and enhance the verve and excellence of the magazine’s reporting and photography.

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Comparisons to Other Magazines:
For 31 years, Outside has set itself apart through its comprehensive, award-winning coverage of travel, sports, adventure, health and fitness, the environment, and the personalities, style, and culture of the world Outside. None of its competitors offers the scale of coverage that it does, or the same level of quality.



Advertising:
Outside has won numerous awards for excellence in journalism, photography and design. Chief among its many accolades, Outside is the only magazine to receive three consecutive National Magazine Awards for General Excellence.

Who Reads SELF?
SELF is a motivating monthly self-help manual that gives its 5 million readers the tools and inspiration they need to feel, look and be their very best. Our readers are women looking to slim down, firm up, feel stronger and more energetic or all of the above. They come to SELF for advice on fitness, healthy eating, beauty, fashion, health, relationships, time management and finances. The magazine attends to the reader's need to look fantastic, but also to live a truly healthy life. SELF's voice is of the reader's smartest, most encouraging friend, urging her to be herself, only better.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of SELF include:

• 15 Minutes to Your Best Self: Timesaving tips
• Beauty Update and Fitness Update
• Body Bonus: Tear-out fitness cards
• Style it Yourself and Style Solutions
• Eat-right Update and Eat-right Need-to-Know
• Health Plate: Recipes
• Health Update and Health Q&A
• Health True Story
• Happiness Update and Sex Update
• Plus Flash news columns throughout the magazine.

Feature Articles: SELF offers features on beauty, fitness, health, style, happiness and more in every issue, as well as thought-provoking personal essays. A recent issue featured "Walk Your Way Slim," "Green Your Beauty Routine," "Natural Cures that Work," and "The Disorder Next Door," a special report on disordered eating habits.

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Contributors:
SELF relies on a team of diligent reporters and researchers to bring women the latest news on health, fitness, happiness and more. The magazine's regular columnists include nutrition expert Joy Bauer, R.D., women's health columnist Lisa Callahan, M.D., psychiatrist and happiness columnist Catherine Birndorf, M.D. and fitness director Meaghan Buchan, a certified trainer.

Magazine Layout
SELF's design is clean and impactful, its models happy, confident and relaxed. Reading SELF, you will always find visual "aaah" moments, as well as breathtaking, inspirational photos and humorous and thought-provoking images.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
Many magazines focus on health and fitness, but SELF does so in the most authoritative and sophisticated way. SELF is the only magazine with a regular "happiness" column, and that upbeat, encouraging mood permeats the magazine. SELF is the trainer you want to hug at the end of a session--not the boot-camp instructor. It's the magazine that feels like a friend, and the one you want to share with your friends.


Advertising
SELF carries a wide range of advertising, from beauty to automotive to packaged goods. The ad/edit ratio is 50/50. SELF’s top five ad categories are beauty, food/beverages, travel/transportation (including automotive), health/remedies and retail.


Awards
SELF has won dozens of awards for its reporting on health, beauty and psychology topics and has been nominated for a total of 11 National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's highest honor. The magazine's 2006 Breast Cancer Handbook won the National Magazine Award for Public Service.


More About SELF:
SELF is the founder of the Pink Ribbon for breast cancer awareness and publishes its Women's Cancer Handbook in the October issue. SELF also hosts the SELF Challenge, a remarkably effective three-month fitness and healthy eating program in the magazine and online at Self.com. More than a million women have used the Challenge to slim down, shape up and feel fantastic.