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8 reasons women's magazines are bad for your health

Growing up in suburban Toronto, I had a big pink wardrobe in the corner of my bedroom that stood about 8 feet tall. By the time I was 16, the closet was so filled with women's magazines that my parents worried the floorboards would crack under its weight.

Back then, I was particularly vulnerable to fashion and teen monthlies targeted at women, like Seventeen and Vogue. Their glossy pages offered an escape from dreary suburbia, and I couldn't get enough.

But when I revisit the health articles in these magazines now, I notice that the overwhelming majority of them are insane, aimed at fearmongering and totally science-free. I regret the time and money I dedicated to these…

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 8 reasons women's magazines are bad for your health

Today I’d tell my 16-year-old self to ignore the health advice in their pages — and keep these eight lessons in mind.

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Clue is a menstrual tracking app, an encyclopedia, a resource for your health, and more.

Fight Like A Girl Club

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Women: Total Health & Wellness

Welcome to Women: Total Health & Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness resource for women. Whether you are interested in learning more about common health conditions, exploring nutrition and exercise topics, or educating yourself about issues related to cancer treatment or other specific health concerns, you’ll find what you’re looking for at AWoman’sHealth.com.

Epigee

Welcome to Epigee! This site exists as an educational resource for women, especially those wanting to know more about pregnancy symptoms, STDs, and birth control methods, or those who have questions about their menstruation or who are facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Girls Gone Strong

Girls Gone Strong is a global movement that aims to empower women to embrace all that's possible for their lives and for their bodies. We provide the tools and support for true, lasting change through body-positive, evidence-based, sustainable nutrition, training, and self-care information.

Global Moms Challenge

We connect moms in the U.S. with their peers around the world by sharing our partners’ stories and information with our community in an accessible, inspirational, and most importantly, actionable way. Our community supports the United Nations’ Every Woman Every Child Initiative to help women and children around the world lead healthy lives.

GLOWM

The global library of women's medicine.

Go Red For Women

Go Red For Women celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke.

Half the Sky Movement

The Half the Sky Movement is cutting across platforms to ignite the change needed to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide, the defining issue of our time.

Healthista

Health made entertaining We won’t wrist-slap or lecture you into eating your five a day. We think being healthy should be fun and never feel like a chore or anything to feel guilty about.

Healthy Bitch Daily

Healthy Bitch Daily is a loose-lipped daily health and self-interest guide for the girl that doesn't take herself too seriously, but holds her body and Mother Earth on a pedestal or at least she's trying.

HealthyWomen

The not-for-profit National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC) is the leading independent health information source for women. NWHRC develops and distributes up-to-date and objective women's health information based on the latest advances in medical research and practice.

HER

EmpowHER brings credible health information & women together in a safe trusted community. When you have information, you have the power to change outcomes in your life and every life you touch.

International Women's Day

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

Ivanhoe

We are the country’s largest news-gathering organization covering medical breakthroughs, family health and issues important to women. The information we provide is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician.

Journal of Women's Health

Journal of Women's Health is the primary source of information to meet the challenges of providing optimum healthcare for women. This authoritative peer-reviewed journal publishes the latest clinical and research papers on the medical health issues that affect women throughout their lifespan.

Kris Carr

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Lean In

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Maven

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MORE

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National Partnership for Women & Families

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OB Doctor Mom

Women's health care, from the perspecitve of someone on the inside. Early retirement from a medical career.

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Red Tent Sisters

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Refinery29

Refinery29, the fastest growing independent fashion and style website in the United States, is a lifestyle platform that delivers nonstop inspiration to help women live a more stylish and creative life. It connects over 25 million monthly visitors and over 175 million users across all platforms with 24/7 programming covering everything from shopping and beauty to wellness and celebrities, giving readers all the tips, tricks, and tools they need to live a more beautiful life — and share it with the world.

SheKnows

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Single Minded Women

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Wildflower

The health decisions that matter most are those made in the home. That's why Wildflower engages Mom, who makes the majority of health decisions for her family, using what's already in her hands....her smartphone. Our programs start with Due Date Plus, which engages Mom when she's pregnant, and continue with Grow, a family health application that supports Mom as she makes ongoing decisions for her family's health.

Women Fitness

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Women's Health Issues

Women's Health Issues (WHI) is the official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, and the only journal devoted exclusively to women's health issues at the medical/social interface. It is a journal for health professionals, social scientists, policy makers, and others concerned with the complex and diverse facets of health care delivery to women.

Women's Health Network

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Women's Heart Foundation

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Women's-Health.com

News, information, articles and videos on a variety of subject including health, beauty, fitness and more.

Women'sHealth

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BellaOnline

Women's health and fitness news and information.

Black Women's Health Imperative

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BraFree.org

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Canadian Women's Health Network

The Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN) was created in 1993 as a voluntary national organization to improve the health and lives of girls and women in Canada and the world by collecting, producing, distributing and sharing knowledge, ideas, education, information, resources, strategies and inspirations.

Center for Research on Women with Disabilities

The mission of Baylor College of Medicine's CROWD is to promote, develop, and disseminate information to improve the health and expand the life choices of women with disabilities.

Center for Young Women's Health

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ChronicBabe

If you're a sick chick in search of like-minded folks, the kind of people who are living well in spite of illness, you're in the right place! ChronicBabe offers hundreds of resources designed to help you keep on being a Babe, even with chronic illness.

Clue

Clue makes it easy to track your cycle and find your unique patterns. Confident, scientific - and not pink.

Dr. Marilyn Glenville

This site has been specifically designed for helping women (and their partners) to improve their health through every stage of their lives. From PMS and menstrual problems to weight loss.

EngenderHealth

EngenderHealth is an international nonprofit organization that has been working for 60 years to make reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable for women and men worldwide.

FDA

The FDA's Office of Women's Health provides information about medical devices, cosmetics, and drugs, current health news, and information about research on women''s health issues. It provides links to regulatory information, scientific projects, and publications.

Feminist Majority Foundation

The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Hormone Health Network

The Hormone Health Network helps you and your health care provider have more informed discussions about hormones and health. Our free, online resources come from the most advanced clinical and scientific expertise in endocrinology.

Imaginis

Our mission is to provide reliable, in-depth information on breast cancer and related women's health issues. Within our thousands of pages of physician-edited information, we explain complicated medical terms in everyday language to assist you in making informed decisions.

Jewish Women's Health

This future portion of the Jewish Women's Health web site will be an out growth of the Nishmat Women's Health and Halacha Website, www.yoatzot.org, a website for the general public whose goal is to provide halachic and medical information about taharat hamishpachah (halachah pertaining to the physical relationship between husband and wife) and women's health.

NIH

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is part of the Office of the Director of NIH. ORWH works in partnership with the 27 NIH Institutes and Centers to ensure that women’s health research is part of the scientific framework at the NIH–and throughout the scientific community.

Planned Parenthood

There are many health issues that only affect women. This section focuses on women's health issues.

The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain

The Echenberg Institute helps women and men suffering from genital pain find significant relief from their symptoms.

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