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With Self as your guide, you'll discover the secrets to living and feeling better. At only $1 an issue, it's the investment of a healthy lifetime. Challenge yourSELF, express yourSELF, reward yourSELF and subscribe to SELF! In every monthly issue, Self will help you relieve stress, trim down, tone up, relax your mind, and enhance your body.
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hr class="bucketDivider" size="1" / div class="bucket" id="productDescription"strong class="h1"Editorial Reviews/strongbr / div class="content" pstrongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Who Reads emSELF/em?/span/strong br / emSELF/em 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 emSELF/em 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. emSELF/em's voice is of the reader's smartest, most encouraging friend, urging her to be herself, only better. br clear="all" / br / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"What You Can Expect in Each Issue:/span/strongbr / Regular sections of emSELF/em include:/p ul listrong15 Minutes to Your Best Self:/strong Timesaving tips /li listrongBeauty Update/strong and strongFitness Update/strong /li listrongBody Bonus:/strong Tear-out fitness cards /li listrongStyle it Yourself/strong and strongStyle Solutions/strong /li listrongEat-right Update/strong and strongEat-right Need-to-Know/strong /li listrongHealth Plate:/strong Recipes /li listrongHealth Update/strong and strongHealth QA/strong /li listrongHealth True Story/strong /li listrongHappiness Update/strong and strongSex Update/strong /li liPlus strongFlash news/strong columns throughout the magazine. /li /ul strongFeature Articles:/strong emSELF/em 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. br clear="all" /br / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Past Issues:/span/strongbr / table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" width="95%" tbody tr align="center" class="tiny" valign="top" tdimg border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT01.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td tdimg border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT02.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td tdimg border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT03.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td tdimg border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT04.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td tdimg border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT05.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td tdimg border="0" src=" http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005NIOS.01.PT06.MXXXXXXX.jpg" //td /tr /tbody /table br / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Contributors:/span/strongbr / emSELF/em 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. br clear="all" /br / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Magazine Layout/span/strong br / emSELF/em's design is clean and impactful, its models happy, confident and relaxed. Reading emSELF/em, you will always find visual "aaah" moments, as well as breathtaking, inspirational photos and humorous and thought-provoking images. br clear="all" /br / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Comparisons to Other Magazines/span/strong br / Many magazines focus on health and fitness, but emSELF/em does so in the most authoritative and sophisticated way. emSELF/em is the only magazine with a regular "happiness" column, and that upbeat, encouraging mood permeats the magazine. emSELF/em 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. br clear="all" / br / br clear="all" / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Advertising/span/strong br / emSELF/em carries a wide range of advertising, from beauty to automotive to packaged goods. The ad/edit ratio is 50/50. emSELF/em’s top five ad categories are beauty, food/beverages, travel/transportation (including automotive), health/remedies and retail. br clear="all" / br / br clear="all" / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"Awards/span/strong br / emSELF/em 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. br clear="all" / br / br clear="all" / strongspan style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #cc6600;"More About emSELF/em:/span/strong br / emSELF/em is the founder of the Pink Ribbon for breast cancer awareness and publishes its Women's Cancer Handbook in the October issue. emSELF/em also hosts the emSELF/em 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. br clear="all" / br //div /div