I received this Remedy magazine as a free subscription, somehow. I don’t really know how I got it, but they apparently needed to increase their subscription base and I was a lucky free recipient! I was thrilled, initially, until I read through a few copies of this little magazine. When I say little, I truly mean the size!

The Product

Have you ever seen a Reader’s Digest? They are roughly 7 ½ inches tall by roughly 5 ¼ inches wide. They normally are thin, measuring in at a mere ¼ to ½ inch. Therefore, it’s a quick read-through. The premise of the magazine is written in the top line, “Health & Wellness for Life”, which is above the magazine’s title!

When I received my first copy and read the headlines on the cover, I wasn’t able to tell if this was supposed to be a self-help type book using holistic type thinking or what it was. For example, I have the Summer 2008 edition here and the headlines are as follows:
6 Ways to Change Your Look & Outlook, The Power of Probiotics- What’s behind those yogurt claims?, AAH! Sweet Relief- Keep those symptoms from coming back, and PLUS: The Last Word in Sun Stuff”

What kind of feeling do you pull off of these titles? It’s a mixed bag. You sort of get the feeling you are going to have a more natural healing magazine, right? Or, possibly you are going to have medically proven (or disproven) ideas. It’s really hard to tell.

Just to get into the magazine, the first few pages there are a Symbiacort advertisement and a BRM (Business Reply Mailer) for people to request more information regarding this product. You get to the index the cover story and other items in the following departments: The Mix, Med Smarts, Face Facts, Kids’ Corner, The Last Word. They have a nice section of items under the Health Focus and it varies along with everything in this magazine. About the only thing that doesn’t change is the fact that there are so many advertisements. Literally, I counted 17 advertisements in this magazine. Of which, they average at least 3 – 4 pages per advertised product because of the medical disclosures that have to accompany all medication advertisements. They usually all include the BRM’s too, so you can get more information on the product.

One good thing I enjoy (if you can call it that) is that the article and the medication do match. If you are in a section talking about arthritis, you will have a medicine on the market that helps treat arthritis right there for you!

The articles seem to be more of a glossy spin on the things they are writing on in the article. The articles are short, usually only (or should I say barely) 1 page long. This one article in the particular magazine talks about memory and it is only 90 words. It basically states that we are more educated now and that people 70 or older in 1993 had more thinking problems and mild memory issues than they were experiencing in 2002. Then, they state in one paragraph that to boost memory, read more, do more crossword puzzles, exercise and eat better.

The longest article in the magazine was in their special section and discussed cancer news with better solutions. This article was 2 ½ pages long, but was under 700 words. They covered items like breast cancer, lung cancer, and that was the only items covered. Inside each of these sections they discuss the trends for these types of cancers (whether they have increased or decreased) and some basic information. They discussed whether there is gene testing available or if they are just using better prognostic tools to try to catch these cancers earlier. Overall, there was nothing earth shattering revealed and I have seen better coverage of the testing provided on the nightly news!

In this section at the side, there were 2 smaller articles that relate to cancer included. One was a coping with cancer section that gave some pointers about taking care of yourself, take up yoga, and talking to your health care team among other items. The other was related to skin cancer and this advised of the trends in skin cancer. They state the incidence in men is remaining stable whereas with women it is declining for the most deadly type – melanoma, but with the less lethal (basal and squamous cell carcinomas) there is an increase. They gave a few tips for people to watch for, how these skin cancers seem to originate and advised whether or not there is any treatments available.

Overall Impressions

While this magazine is a quick place to locate some basic information regarding many health issues, it’s not helpful. This is a magazine that is mostly quoting statics regarding the particular health issues. And, this doesn’t release anything that tells you ways to help alleviate issues or help reduce their occurrence (other than prompt you to try the latest, greatest medication on the market). All of the magazines I have received so far are alike in that they are small, the articles are not very long and most of the magazine is advertisements!

In my opinion, it’s a publicity campaign to get medications into the eyes of potential customers only. The articles are fluffy, not really helpful and they contain nothing really of use. This is a good magazine to waste your time turning pages if you want to look busy waiting for an appointment, but it’s not worth subscribing to it. The magazine, unfortunately, in my eyes is a waste of paper. I am glad that I can recycle in my community! If you find one for free, check it out for yourself. But, I wouldn’t waste any money on it that is for sure!

~Thanks for spending time with me today!~

Other magazines that I have reviewed:

Figure Magazine


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