Nature & Health Magazine

I really love this magazine (and no, I’m not being paid to say so)! I’ve been a fan since 2003 — since before I started studying Naturopathy. I have around 55 copies on file.

I find N&H a well considered, interesting and intelligent read. The articles are referenced, and in most cases are written by practicing health professionals.

It’s just like any other lifestyle magazine… Except it’s not gossipy… or shallow… and the articles are relevant… and important.

To sell magazines to women you have to include a certain amount of ‘essential’ reading. Any women’s magazine ‘worth its weight’ will contain the following subjects:

Weight loss

Beauty
(with a heavy focus on anti-aging)

Hormonal advice

Sex

It’s always interesting to look back through the media to see what we were focused on at specific points in time. And it was particularly fascinating to scan back through my collected copies of N&H.  The majority of these articles are written by practicing health professionals, so you would expect this magazine to reflect what they were seeing at the time…

Before 2007 we were more-or-less focused on:

Aesthetics

‘alternative health’
(chakra dancing, Tibetan healing, and astrological aromatherapy)

relationships

hormonal concerns

However since 2007/2008 (around the time of the financial crisis), we have been noticeably focused on:

increasing energy, and reducing stress & anxiety

Reducing pain & tension
(headaches, migraines & Fibromyalgia)

poor immunity/auto-immunity/allergies & food intolerance

infertility toxicity issues/chemical sensitivities

going green & Going drug free

It’s sad to see that throughout the last decade,  women are still suffering from a core batch of health concerns:

Poor breast health  (Specifically cancer)

Bone &  joint issues

Hair loss

Thyroid concerns