Leading the pack, Consumer Reports achieved a rating of "excellent," based on three measures: provision of factual information, objective presentation of information, and presentation of sound nutritional recommendations. Just beneath Consumer Reports were some surprising runners-up, with Glamour and Ladies' Home Journal earning scores that put them in the same league as Shape.
Surprisingly, a number of health and cooking titles, mostly targeting female readers, were ranked merely "good" by ACSH in their delivery of nutritional content: Cooking Light, Fitness, Health, Runner's World and Prevention all fell in this category. Child, Parents, Woman's Day, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens and Self also drew the third place "good" spot.
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Health and fitness titles targeting men appear to be the most inaccurate when it comes to nutrition, according to ACSH. Men's Health and Muscle & Fitness both earned a mediocre "fair" ranking, along with Cosmopolitan and Reader's Digest. Meanwhile, the only "poor" rating in the study went to Men's Fitness.