Women are lean and men are also lean: nutrition titles in women's and men's health magazines.
BMC Public Health
; 24(1): 1230, 2024 May 03.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Whether nutrition messages in popular health magazines differ by country or season has seldom been studied. We assessed the nutrition topics featured in the headlines of Men's Health® (MH) and Women's Health® (WH) magazines from different countries.METHODS:
We sampled MH and WH magazines from Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA. Nutrition-related headlines were categorized as weight loss, weight gain, micronutrients and other.RESULTS:
The most frequent topics were "Other" (44%) and "weight loss" (41%), while "micronutrients" represented 4%. Topics related to weight gain were more frequent in MH (19% vs. 2% in WH), while no difference was found for weight loss (44% vs. 37% in WH). On multivariable analysis, weight gain had a higher likelihood of being present in MH than in WH, Odds ratio and (95% confidence interval) 8.3 (2.2-90.9), p = 0.002, while no association was found for weight loss OR 1.1 (0.6-2.0), p = 0.80. Weight loss was absent from the US WH and present in two thirds of the Portuguese WH; in MH, weight gain was evenly distributed between countries. Prevalence of the weight loss topic was lower in March (15% vs. 54% in January, p < 0.01 by logistic regression) and to a lesser degree in June (35%) and July (35%). No seasonality was found for the "weight gain" topic.CONCLUSION:
In WH and MH magazines, nutrition topics vary according to gender, country, and season. Weight gain remains a male topic, while weight loss is equally prevalent in both women's and men's magazines.Palavras-chave
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Publicações Periódicas como Assunto
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Saúde da Mulher
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Public Health
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
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