Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Some time ago I had blogged about my magazine problem here . Well, this past week, Cosmo has seen it fit to provide me with, not one, but two complimentary copies of their magazine - one of the regular US Cosmo and another of the Latina edition. Now, I don't know if it is my bias or not, but my jaw just dropped when I saw this article below. Now I read a lot of magazines and I have not, in the last 5 years, seen any magazine not say to substitute brown rice wherever white rice is mentioned, except this one. And they are saying white rice is good for you because of the manganese content (which brown rice also has).  And potatoes? "High in vitamin C, potatoes can boost immunity to cold-causing bugs." This is an obvious endorsement of foods without the usual qualifiers (in moderation, better with X substitution, etc.). In fact, I don't think I've ever seen any item in this list promoted as being "good for you" except maybe coffee in some inst...

Some time ago I blogged about how I came to be in possession of a number of glossy magazines here. Clearly I am not the target audience for these magazines, at least most of them. When I look at some (really most) of the styles in the Vogue I find them somewhat hideous - I cannot imagine myself wearing some of those outfits (or makeup either). And if there was any doubt about me being the right audience for these, this little full-page disabused me of any such thoughts: So the caption clearly says "What to Wear to Work This Summer" and the outfit looks ok, but look at the accessories. I've enlarged the watch below. I am not sure who exactly can afford to wear that watch to work this summer, but I know it is not me.