Health & Fitness magazines overview

The section that I am going to be reporting on when it comes to the evolution of magazine covers is health & fitness. For this section, the group selected what we considered to be the top 2 magazines in this area: Cosmopolitan and Shape magazine. Cosmopolitan magazine has a bigger evolution since it has been in circulation since 1965 while Shape magazine was created in 1981. Cosmopolitan magazine was originally a literary magazine and then transformed into a magazine for "fun, fearless females" under the direction of Helen Gurley Brown. As for Shape magazine, it was first published in 1981 by Weider Publications. The following blogs on these magazines will follow the evolving aspects of the covers of each, ending with a discussion and analysis of why these changes took place.