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This mention of ACSH's survey of magazines' health reporting appeared in the New York Daily News:

Can you trust the nutrition stories in your favorite magazine? That depends on what you're reading. From time to time, the American Council on Science and Health, a New York-based public health education group, evaluates the accuracy of magazine nutrition writing based on factual information, objectivity, and sound recommendations. The 2004 results rank Cooking Light, Parents, and Ladies' Home Journal as tops, followed by Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Consumer Reports, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Woman's Day, Glamour, Self, Health, Runner's World, Prevention, Shape, and Fitness. Now you know.

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