Top 10 Health Markets

by Nita Walker Frazier

Baby boomers are aging in the midst of a health and fitness craze. New people, who will have to be taught to care for their bodies, are being born every day. This makes for a fairly stable writing market in the health and fitness field.

Unless otherwise stated, send complete manuscript to this month’s top ten markets:

Better Health
Better Health Magazine
1450 Chapel St.
New Haven CT.06511
No e-mail or website listed
Contact: Cynthia Wolfe Boynton, editor/publishing director

Better Health, published bimonthly, is devoted to health, wellness and medical issues.
Needs: wellness/prevention issues.
Word Count: 1,500-3,000 words
Pays $300-$700.
Does not want fillers, poems, quizzes, seasonal, heavy humor, and inspirational or personal experience.

American Health & Fitness
CANUSA Publishing
5775 McLaughlin Rd.
Mississauga ON L5R 3P7
Canada
e-mail: editorial@ahfmaag.com
website: www.ahfmag.com
Contact: Kerrie-Lee Brown, editor-in-chief
American Health & Fitness is a bimonthly magazine designed to help male fitness buffs (28-39) stay fit strong, and virile through sensible diet and exercise.
Tip: Columns open to freelancers are Chiropractic, Personal Training, Strength & Conditioning, Dental, Longevity, and Natural Health.
Needs: Fillers (anecdotes, facts, gags, newsbreaks short humor)
100-300 words
Pays $50-$100.
Nonfiction (exposes, general interest, how-to, humor, inspirational, interview/profile, new product, personal experience, photo feature, travel)
1,400-2,000 words
Pays $350-$1500 for assigned articles: #350-$1,000 for unsolicited articles.
Pays $100-$1,000 for columns

Perspectives in Health
Pan American Health Organization
525 23rd St. NW
Washington, DC 20037-2895
e-mail: eberwind@paho.org
website: www.paho.org
Contact: Donna Eberwine, Editor
Perspectives in Health is “the magazine of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) created in 1996 to serve as a forum on current issues in the area of international health and human development. PAHO works with the international community, government groups and others to strengthen national and local health systems and to improve the health and well-being of the peoples of the Americas.”
All issues published in English and Spanish.
Needs:
General interest
Historical
Interview/Profile
Opinion
Personal Experience
No highly technical, highly bureaucratic articles.
1,500-3,000 words
Pays $250.
Submission method: Query with or without published clips or send complete manuscript.
Tips: Perspectives puts a human face on international public health issues and programs. All facts must be documented, not simply an internet research story.”

Current Health I
The Beginning Guide to Health Education
General Learning Communications
900 Skokie Blvd. Suite 200
Northbrook IL.60062-4028
e-mail: crubenstein@glcomm.com
website: www.glcomm.com

Current Health I is an educational health periodical published monthly September-April/May.
Audience is 4th-7th grade health education students. Articles should be written to a 5th grade reading level. Information must be accurate, timely, accessible, and highly readable.
Needs: health curriculum
950-2000 words
Pays $150-$450.
Submission method: Query with introductory letter, resume and clips. No unsolicited mss. Articles are on assignment only.
Tips: Looking for writers with an education and/or health background who can write for the age group in a scientifically accurate and engaging way.
All topics open to freelancers.

Health
Time, Inc., Southern Progress Corp.
2100 Lakeshore Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35209.
Website: www.health.com
Contact: Stephanie Wolford, office manager

Health is published 20times/year covering health, fitness, and nutrition.
Audience: predominantly college-educated women in their30s,40s,and 50s. Focus is not on illness, but on wellness events, ideas, and people.
Submission method: No unsolicited mss. Query with published clips and SASE.
Length 1,300 word.
Pays $1.00-$1.50/word
Tips: Column open to freelancers: Food, Mind, Healthy Looks, Fitness, Relationships.
Health looks for” well-articulated ideas with a narrow focus and broad appeal.”

Hearing Health
Voice International Publications, Inc.
1000050 17th St. NW #701
Washington, DC 20036
E_mail:info@hearinghealthmag.com
Website: www.hearinghealthmag.com
Contact: Lorraine Short, editor

Hearing Health is a quarterly magazine that covers issues and concerns pertaining to hearing and hearing loss.
Needs: Nonfiction; Book excerpts; Essays; Expose; General interest; Historical; Humor; Inspirational; Interview/profile; New product; Opinion; Personal experience; Photo feature; Technical; Travel; Fillers (25-1,500 words)
Does Not Want: Self-pitying over loss of hearing
Submission method: query with published clips
Length 500-2,000 words
Pays $75-200.
Tips: looking for “fresh stories, usually factual, but occasionally fictitious, about coping with hearing loss. A positive attitude is a must for Hearing Health. Unless one has some experience with deafness or hearing loss (their own or a loved one’s) it is difficult to break in to the publication.

Men’s Health
Rodale
33 E. Minor St.
Emmaus, PA 18098
e-mail: bill.stieg@rodale.com
website: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/home/0,6922,s1-0-0-0-0,00.html
Contact: Bill Stieg, Senior Editor

Men’s Health is a lifestyle magazine showing men the practical and positive actions that make their lives better with articles covering fitness, nutrition, relationships, travel, grooming, and health issues.

Needs nonfiction information on all aspects of men’s physical and emotional health.
1,100-4,000 words.
Submission method: mail query with published clips.
Tips: "The best way to break in is not by covering a particular subject, but by covering it in the magazine’s style. A writer has to be a good humor writer as well as a good service writer.”

Fitness Magazine
15 E. 26th St., 5th Floor
New York, New York 10010-1536
Website: www.muscle-fitness.com
Contact: Liz Vaccariello, executive editor.

Fitness magazine is a monthly magazine for women in their twenties and thirties who are interested in fitness and a healthy life.

Needs timely well-written nonfiction articles on exercise and fitness, beauty, health, diet/nutrition, and psychology.
1,500-2,500 words
Pays $1,500-2,500
Submission method: Query
Tips: “Get inside the mind of the reader and address her needs, hopes, fears and desires.”

Your Health & Fitness
General Learning Communications
900 Skokie Blvd.
Northbrook, IL 60062-1574
Website: www.glcomm.com
Contact: Debb Bastian, editorial director

Your Health & Fitness is a quarterly magazine that seeks to educate the lay person on health, fitness and safety.
Needs health related nonfiction
Tips: All articles are assigned. No queries. If interested in writing for the magazine, send a cover letter, resume/curriculum vitae, and writing samples.

American Fitness
15250 Ventura Blvd.
Suite 200
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Website: www.afaa.com
Contact: Meg Jordan, editor
American Fitness is a bimonthly magazine covering exercise, fitness, health, and nutrition.
Needs: timely, in-depth articles on health, fitness, aerobic exercise, sports nutrition, age-specific fitness and outdoor activity. Also need women’s issues (pregnancy, menopause, etc.)
800-1,200 words
Pays: $200 for features $80 for news
Does Not Want: First person accounts, articles on unsound nutritional practices, popular trends, or unsafe exercise gimmicks.
Submission method: Query with published clips or send complete mss.

Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope Press
702S. Main St.
Akron, OH 44311-1019
e-mail: mshhhiplett@udsakron.org
website: www.udsakron.org
Contact: Gail Wilmott, senior editor

Kaleidoscope is not a health a fitness magazine, per se. It is a semiannual magazine which explores the experience of disability through literature and the Fine Arts.
Needs nonfiction related to disability.
Special Issues: Mental Illness - July 2004, deadline March 2004; Parents and Children - January 2005, deadline August 2004.
Length 5,000 words maximum
Pays $25-$125.
Also needs fiction that explores experiences with disability. Contact: Fiction Editor.

Nita Walker Frazier is a struggling writer, trying to go full-time free-lance. She has lived in the West Texas area all of her life. She is the mother of two, ages 21 and 18. She is also foster mother to all their friends. She does not work outside the home due to medical disabilities, but volunteers her time to the local Girl Scouts as a leader and to the literacy council as a tutor. When she was a child, her dream was to own an elephant that she could keep in her back yard. She gave that up in favor of a dog malamute/chow mix and two cats.