Life Journal

I don’t know about you, but I usually feel rotten after I leaf through one of the popular women’s magazines. Have you ever noticed suddenly feeling ugly, fat, frumpy, or flawed after reading a copy of Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, etc.?

Well, it’s not a coincidence. The fact is that most women’s magazines don’t exist to inform, help, or entertain us. The sole reason for their existence is to sell us stuff ~ mostly stuff we don’t even need.

How do they do that successfully? In marketing, it’s called “creating a need.” They make us feel bad about ourselves so we’ll buy products to fix us. It’s a nasty little game they play…

1. Magazines cater to advertisers on what content to offer. For example, they won’t publish photos of women who love and accept their normal bodies. If they do run an article with that idea (which doesn’t happen often), they’ll accompany it with a photo of an underweight model. Women who love their natural bodies aren’t good customers for the diet advertisers.

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Quite obviously, men and women are different in very many ways, but most especially in their physical appearance. This is certainly the most distinguishable difference, but there are many other different internal factors as well, such as the regulation of hormonal secretions and the type of secretions; in addition, women are more prone to certain diseases than men.

Natural health is making a huge difference in the lives of women, and if you decide to take natural health approach, you will need to address these differences in the regimen you create. You might know that it is important to eat low-fat foods, unrefined foods that do not contain preservatives, but do you know what vitamins and nutrients women are more likely to lack?–And do you know why not addressing those needs can significantly decrease your quality of life – both at work and at home?

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