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Improving sleep through mindful breathing exercises
Practicing stress reduction and relaxation techniques
Establishing a relaxing bedtime routine
Achieving a healthy weight
You won't achieve a healthy weight through buying a particular product or going on a crash diet.
Women's magazines have pages on how to lose weight fast or maintain a healthy body size using some new product or trend. Actual claims on the covers of Women's Health magazines, such as "Hot body express!" "Bikini body now!" "Have the baby, keep the body!" These are lies. There is no magic diet.
What really works is watching what you eat every day, over a lifetime. No magic diet or miracle pills are needed.
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Expensive creams and potions won't make you more beautiful
Author Timothy Caulfield spent years researching the science behind celebrity health and beauty tips. He found that most beauty products had either no data behin...
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Giving your 16 year-old-self advice
When we are young, we are more vulnerable to fashion and teen monthlies targeted at women. Their glossy pages offer an escape from our dreary lives.
While women's magazines offer celebrity-centred advice, it is never evidence-based. Instead, it has largely frivolous, unhelpful, false and o...
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You don't need to be super strict about your diet
There's no need to aim for perfection in your diet 100 per cent of the time. Restrictive diets are unsustainable and often backfire.
Yet women's magazines fixate on strict eating patterns. Whatever the trend, you'll find it in the pages of these magazines. Offering short-term perfection se...
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Celebrities aren't good sources of health information
Women's magazines uncritically show faddish health advice from celebrities. Beyonce is held up as the go-to authority on the vegan lifestyle. InStyle states it is the reason behind her "#flawless" looks and "killer curves." Gwyneth Paltrow's popular gimmicks include
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You shouldn't aspire to look like Kim Kardashian
Women's magazines sell the idea that we can all look better. It usually involves looking like someone famous like Kim Kardashian.
However, we look like ourselves. Only Kim Kardashian looks like Kim Kardashian. Her career depends on beautifying her face and body. And even she doesn't...
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Smoking isn't glamorous
Women's magazines may give so-called health advice, but they still carry ads from cigarette companies that depict smoking as a glamorous exercise for beautiful people.
Given what we know about the harms of smoking,
- that it is one of the worst things you can do for your health,
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Exercise doesn't have to be annoying or overly complex
Many women's magazines depict exercise as a daunting task. Exercise often requires fancy gym clothes and lots of time and discipline to give you an "awesome body wherever you go."
However, exercise is something that gives you energy, lifts your mood, and makes you feel strong and healthy. E...
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Unless you're a heroin addict, you probably don't need to detox
The pages of women's magazines are filled with diets and products that supposedly help you "cleanse your body." This includes clarifying shampoo, detoxifying salads and juices, supplements, enemas, and even colon cleanses.
Science-based medicine had long rejected the concept of a detox othe...
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Stress can prevent you from keeping a healthy weight
Stress can prevent you from keeping a healthy weight.
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7 Things You Need To Understand About Anxiety And Depression
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