Self (1-year)

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Product Description
Self is devoted to all women who want to discover the secrets of living better by maximizing their fitness, health, nutrition, personal happiness, beauty, and style. Every issue provides new ideas and plans to jump-start or maintain personal development, nutrition, and fitness goals, plus the latest news and breakthroughs in health and well-being.

Editorial Reviews

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. Also in the issue: A profile of actress and cover model Jennifer Garner.

Past Issues:

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.

Encourages bullimia, anorexia and low self-esteem!
Just look at the titles on the magazines from the snapshots -- ALL of them concerned with 'losing weight', 'shedding a size', etc. This is an example of our patriarchal-controlled societies' influence on the control of women. I find it sad, and depressing that women actually buy magazines like this that covertly tell them they are worthless unless they are almost invisibly thin and star-like attractive according to some impossible-to-attain standard. Please, please don't buy this magazine and contribute to the perpetuation of this industry!

Self
This is a magazine that everyone can read, and either enjoy or lean something in.......a very worth while purchase.......you can read it anywhere.....articles are short & sweet--to the point....a real bonus for us working people.......men can even read it.....

A bit droll
Honestly, I've read many womens' magazines, but was never enticed by "Self" for some reason. It seems like a magazine that is for women obsessed by workouts and fitness, but at the same time, it also features other mostly below average articles you would expect to find in other womens' magazines, articles that are about budgeting (for single women) and sexy clothing/makeup and stuff of that sort. My question is: why? If you're going to focus so much on fitness, make this a more hardcore magazine for true athletic women and cut-out all the celebrity nonsense and Cosmo-wannabe articles.

I never really read any of the articles in this magazine. I mean, how much more boring can it get to read about the perfect lunges or push-ups without getting a bit droll? This is the sort of magazine I rush through and can't seem to get rid of fast enough. Maybe it's just me, but who needs to read about the perfect set of ab exercises over and over again? Is everyone out there really that superficial? And like I said before, the magazine seems to be superficial when it comes to fitness too. True fitness should be mind, body, and soul, not just having tight abs and expensive fashion and makeup. Having a nice set of a particular muscle group isn't necessarily healthy or good fitness either.

My favorite magazine
Reading this makes me feel like I am doing something for my health. Great articles, good information. This is my favorite magazine.

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