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Volume
7: No. 2, March 2010
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Cognitive Health Messages in Popular
Women’s and
Men’s Magazines, 2006-2007
Women's |
Recommendation |
Percentage |
Diet |
30 |
Multiple behaviors |
19 |
Vitamins |
11 |
Mind exercises |
11 |
Treatments |
7 |
Men's |
Diet |
27 |
Multiple behaviors |
19 |
Vitamins |
15 |
Mind exercises |
4 |
Treatments |
4 |
Figure 1. Most frequent recommendations for maintaining
cognitive health in top-circulating women’s and men’s magazines, 2006-2007. The
figure presents the percentage of articles focused on these recommendations.
Because less commonly occurring recommendations are not shown, percentages do
not total 100.
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Women's |
Characteristic |
Percentage |
Memory |
30 |
Alert/Sharp |
22 |
Alzheimer's disease |
19 |
Men's |
Memory |
15 |
Alert/Sharp |
23 |
Alzheimer's disease |
15 |
Figure 2. Most prevalent
characteristics of cognitive health in top-circulating women’s and men’s magazines, 2006-2007. The figure presents the percentage of articles focused on
these characteristics. Because less commonly occurring characteristics are not
shown, percentages do not total 100.
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