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This inspired us to take a look at a few other year-over-year stats. The following was pulled from Google Analytics for Stylebistro.com, Livingly Media's fashion & beauty title and one of the top 10 style websites online.

Lots of readers look to celebrities for fashion and beauty inspiration.  Stylebistro publishes celebrity lookbooks to detail both red carpet and street-style looks, including fashion, makeup, and hairstyles.  Below is a list of the celebs who attract the most interest.  Kate Middleton tops the list in both May 2012 and May 2013.  Kim K and Selena Gomez lost some ground, while other celebs such as Miley Cyrus, Kaley Cuoco, Emma Watson, and Alessandra Ambrosio gained in popularity and influence.

One of the most popular channels on Stylebistro is focused on trending hairstyles.  The most popular topics are remarkably consistent year-over-year, but of course the specific cuts and styles within these broad categories have changed.

We’re excited to announce the debut of our Lonny iPad app. This has been something the Lonny team has talked and dreamt about for years and we’re proud to share it with you today. You can find it on iTunes by clicking here. Some of the app’s bells and whistles: It comes with a one-month free trial subscription. It provides access to every Lonny issue from the past three years. It’s fast and easy to use. 

It all started out with the basic concept of reopening the doors of creative and accessible home design. Since the launch of its very first issue in October 2009, Lonny Magazine has gone above and beyond the fundamental vision of its co-founders, continuing to evolve, flourish, and branch into new directions with each and every monthly installment. To celebrate its three year anniversary and the importance of dreaming big, the October 2012 issue of Lonny offers readers a variety of simple home ideas that generate huge results.

To simplify the process of beautifying your home even further, Lonny Editor in Chief Michelle Adams teamed up with HomeMint – BeachMint’s membership-based home goods website directed by Justin Timberlake and celebrity stylist Estee Stanley – to launch a striking virtual storefront, live on HomeMint today. As their first ever guest curator, Michelle has hand-selected an array of timelessly chic home décor to instantly invigorate any room of the house.

When she isn’t too busy catching criminals, CSI: Miami star Emily Procter likes to explore her passion for interior decorating and antiques, which is effortlessly reflected in her handsome LA home. Staying true to her southern roots, Procter hospitably invites Lonny to take a closer look inside her beachfront abode.

Though it is typically taboo to mix your personal and professional lives, for Mary Nelson Sinclair, studio director for luxury textile company Vanderhurd, this overlap is unavoidable. Rife with her uniquely eclectic yet approachable aesthetic, Lonny takes a peek inside the artist’s warm West Village apartment.

Geodes (colloquially known as “those deceptively boring looking rocks that are secretly lined with shimmering crystals”) are taking the style scene by storm this season. From the runway looks to home décor and textile designs, geodes are a great way to add a little sparkle to your daily routine.

Lonny creative director Michelle Adams, StyleBeat founder Marisa Marcantonio and Haus Interior owner Nina Freudenberger round up their favorite pieces on the market in October.

Take a virtual visit to Reims, France for Veuve Clicquot’s annual fall harvest - complete with a quick look inside their exclusive newly renovated 19th century mansion, Hotel du Marc.

Zimbio, Inc. is pleased to introduce you to Nicole Amico Smith, the newest addition to our executive team. Nicole is our Vice President of Sales and will be based in New York City. 

Nicole joins us from Conde Nast where she was most recently Associate Publisher with Style.com. Previously, she served as Conde Nast’s Digital Executive Director of Sales and prior to that was Account Director for Portfolio.com. Nicole will build and lead Zimbio’s sales team out of our New York offices and will sell across all three Zimbio, Inc. sites; StyleBistro.com, Zimbio.com, and Lonny.com.

Public Health Career Training Options

Public health professionals are trained to fill a number of employment positions in the field of health care. Students can receive training by enrolling in one of a number of accredited schools and colleges. With an education in public health students can gain the knowledge needed to start the career they desire. Students can choose to earn an associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorates degree.

Students can receive the skill training and knowledge that is necessary to pursue a degree in public health by enrolling in an accredited educational program. Professions work with a variety of individuals and situation to provide assistance for foster children, addicts, the homeless, and other people who need various types of services. By following a few steps students can obtain the needed skills to earn their degree and find employment working with these types of situations.

Research and enroll in the degree program that meets individual career goals.

Associates degrees can be earned with as little as two years of study from an accredited educational program.

Earning a bachelors degree in the field of public health can take students around four years of study.

Student can pursue a masters or doctorates degree which can range from an additional two to four years of study.

Decide on a career path that meets your desired goals and career profession.

With an accredited school or college students can pursue a number of careers in this field.

Professions in public health include health inspectors, public educators, environmental monitors, administrators, and much more.

Students can choose the career path that best meets their individual needs and desired skills.

Complete all required coursework and studies for desired level of degree.

Coursework will vary depending on the level of degree and desired career.

Students may have the chance to study in environmental health, epidemiology, and health management.

Other areas of study may include courses in behavioral sciences, policy, biostatistics, and many other related subjects.

Obtain your desired degree.

If needed enroll in higher degree training programs to further your education and obtain the degree desired.

Gain additional skills and knowledge by completing accredited continuing education courses for certificates.

Search for employment that meets your individual career goals in the field of public health.

Medical Technology

Innovative medical technology and health education is essential for helping patients so that diseases can be cured rather than be managed. This is particularly true for prevention of nerve related chronic pain.

One of my patients told me that he sees the field of medicine as purely supportive and useful for managing diseases but really does not cure diseases. I did explain to him that when diseases are caught too late, he is perfectly correct.

The idea is to diagnose early to have possible cures for the disease. Since patients present to the doctor only when they are symptomatic, it is usually too late for a good chance for a cure. The best time to have a cure is when there are signs rather than symptoms.

The body takes a lot of abuses before one get symptomatic, and early diagnosis is really essential. Since I help patients with nerve related muscle pain and discomfort, I will limit my health blog only to this topic. It is essential that I put my thoughts in writing so that others may receive education and benefit from my many years in medical technology innovation to develop Electrical Twitch Obtaining Intramuscular Stimulation (eToims Twitch Relief Method).

The time to get a medical opinion is before one has pain. Everyone should learn how to look at their muscles to see if they look swollen. There should be no well defined margins or grooves beside or around the muscle of interest. When the muscle is relaxed, the muscle should not look as though it is contracted. If it does so, this is a sign of muscle shortening and muscle spasm making the muscle look very tight.

The skin overlying the muscle should not be thick and adhesed to the underlying tissue. The pores in the skin overlying the muscle should not be clearly visible. If there is hair loss in the area that is also not normal. All these are signs of trophic neurogenic skin changes, recognizable just by looking carefully. If these clinical signs are present, you already have nerve related muscle problems and you are a candidate for developing chronic pain if you already do not have chronic pain presently.

Health Promotion Program

Benefits of health promotion are not only for the workplace of a company it also touches the interest of the employees. There are various types of benefits that are transferred from the employee to their members of the family.

Teaching and supporting are the best feasible ways of communicating health tips to the employees. Already thousands of people get their health information from TV, Internet and magazines.

Benefits of Health Promotion 

Health Awareness -- Most of the employees like to follow these tips for the benefit of working together. Some of the areas of health awareness are such as awareness concerning alcohol and tobacco, recreation, fitness, nutrition, heart health, urology problem, diabetics etc. Also workplace safety areas and workplace health promotion are very effective.

Workplace Health Promotion -- It will lead to a general shrink of health care expenses, health maintenance, health education and other preventive measures for various diseases. These are all crucial for generating a solid institution within an association. Workplace health promotion is having the strong evidence to supports the success of wellness programs or health programs. This type of inventions is making the important difference in the managerial structure.

Health Programs -- Most of the popular companies would like to implement the wellness programs. They are encouraging not only their employees to improve their health lifestyle but the members of family as well. Mental health programs are part of health support on the workplace. It can function as a barometer to show the state of wellbeing of the employees. This is the significant factor for mental health programs.

Positive Working Environment -- Company employees enjoy many of these types of strategies for they reduce behavioral problems and suicide rates. Stress management classes and/or mental health programs have resulted in a decrease of domestic aggressions due to a positive working environment for the employees. On social level there is an important reduction of child abuse and also spousal abuse.

Generally the safety and health promotion or occasional health both help to reduce the number of disabilities and deaths at the workplace. Safety and health issue of employees are part of their workplace environment therefore wellness programs and common health promotion occurs in the work environment. Training workers while implementing wellness and safety procedures results in a significant decrease of injuries. As job injuries reduce, workers asking for a compensation claim reduce. To conclude workplace health promotion is an excellent tool for the company to show the employees that their health is the most important to the organization.

The Health Care Crisis

We are presently facing a health care crisis that is getting more dire every day. Health care costs are increasing so rapidly that many companies who offered free health insurance to their employees are now passing a lot of the high cost on to their employees. Other employers are dropping their health care plans altogether because they have become too expensive. Millions do not have health insurance because they can't afford the premiums.

There are many reasons that this situation is escalating out of control.

One reason is that the primary emphasis is on treatment of the symptoms of disease. There is too little emphasis on prevention of disease.

Most people don't take care of themselves well enough, partially due to insufficient knowledge on how to prevent disease. Many people tend to eat too much and exercise too little. Many others have habits which impact their health, such as alcohol or tobacco.

We have an aging population. We live longer, but require more health care to accomplish that, partially due to insufficient attention to our health in earlier years.

Health care insurance encourages people to neglect their health because they think they can rely on a quick fix when they need it.

Medical choices are often made by others in the name of the patient, rather than the patient being involved in the financial and medical choices.

Many insured patients tend to overuse medical resources since those resources appear to be free or almost free, masked by the cost of the insurance.

What is the solution to this ever-expanding problem? How do we bring health care costs under control and make a better life for people?

There are many facets to the solution, but the most important part is disease prevention. Many of the nation's biggest health problems can be prevented with proper knowledge and proper habits.

The emphasis for health care needs to be shifted from treating disease to prevention of disease. We need to stop disease before it manifests. This will not eliminate the need to cure disease, but it can diminish that need significantly. One very important by-product of this is a healthier population.

Now that we know the solution, how do we implement it?

It is implemented through proper health education. The knowledge of how to prevent disease has existed for thousands of years. The knowledge has been largely ignored, to our detriment. People got used to the idea of taking pills to treat the symptoms of disease rather than taking proper actions to prevent disease in the first place. This fostered bad habits and people increasingly lost the inner knowledge of what was good for their health and what was bad for their health. People began to crave junk food and a sedentary lifestyle - the opposite of what was good for their health.

Importance of Health and Media Literacy

Although research suggests that children's eating habits are formed even before they enter the classroom - children as young as two may already have dietary preferences based on their parents' food choices - health education can play a vital role in helping establish lifelong healthy patterns early.

Research shows that health education has a positive impact on health behaviors as well as academic achievement, and that the most effective means of improving health literacy is ensuring that health education is included in curriculum at all levels of education.

U.S. schools educate 54 million students daily, and can provide not only an outlet to promote healthy behaviors for children and adolescents, but a place for them to engage in these behaviors, including eating healthy and participating in physical activity.

The U.S. is in great need of an improvement in health literacy. In a 2007 UNICEF study, our country ranked last out of 21 industrialized countries in overall child health and safety. Approximately one in five of our high school students are smokers, 80 percent of students do not eat the recommended five servings of vegetables and fruits per day, and more than 830,000 adolescents become pregnant each year. Approximately two thirds of the American population is estimated to be overweight or obese.

Furthermore, our understandings of health and health-related behaviors are often highly influenced by the media and media images - which can lead to inaccurate assumptions and negative health behaviors and attitudes.

The importance of media literacy as applies to health education

Self-esteem patterns also develop in early childhood, although they fluctuate as kids gain new experiences and perceptions. Because media messages can influence unhealthy behaviors, especially in adolescents, a comprehensive health education program must include not only health knowledge, but media literacy as it relates to psychological and physical health behaviors as well.

"To a large degree, our images of how to be comes from the media. They are [a] crucial shaper of the young lives we are striving to direct," writes resource teacher Neil Andersen, editor of Mediacy, the Association for Media Literacy newsletter.

Media awareness, Andersen explains, can help teach students techniques to counter marketing programs that prey on their insecurities to promote negative behavior, can explode stereotypes and misconceptions, can facilitate positive attitudes and can help students learn how to absorb and question media-conveyed information.

Because our perceptions of ourselves and others develop early, and because we live in such a media-inundated world, it is important that we address the conflicts inherent in media values versus our own values with our children and adolescents first, in a factual, positive, and coherent way.

A comprehensive (age-appropriate) health program would therefore teach about these various issues at different stages of development. Pre-adolescence and adolescence are especially pertinent stages in an individual's growth for discovering themselves and their place in the world, and it is during this vital time that media literacy is absolutely key to an influential and positive health program. Issues must be addressed that affect positive health behavior and attitudes, especially in teen girls, including:

• Digital manipulation of the body in advertisement - Almost all of what we see in media has been altered or digitally manipulated to some extent.

• Objectification of the body in media - Since the 1960s, sexualized images of men in the media have increased 55 percent, while sexualized images of women increased 89 percent, according to a University of Buffalo study. There are also 10 times more hypersexualized images of women than men and 11 times more non-sexualized images of men than of women.

• Average women versus models - Models today are 23 percent skinnier than the average woman, versus 9 percent skinnier in the 80s.

We live in a pop-culture that not only promotes a hyper-skinny-is-best attitude, but also discourages average or healthy body ideals and individuals from feeling good about simply pursuing healthy dietary choices - they feel they must resort instead to drastic (and quick) weight loss measures that put unhealthy stress on the body.

For example, a study released in 2006 by the University of Minnesota showed that 20 percent of females had used diet pills by the time they were 20 years old. The researchers also found that 62.7 percent of teenage females used "unhealthy weight control behaviors," including the use of diet pills, laxatives, vomiting or skipping meals. The rates for teenage boys were half that of girls.

"These numbers are startling, and they tell us we need to do a better job of helping our daughters feel better about themselves and avoid unhealthy weight control behaviors," concluded Professor Dianne Neumark-Sztainer. Over the five-year period that the study was conducted, moreover, researchers found that high school-aged females' use of diet pills nearly doubled from 7.5 percent to 14.2 percent.

What teaching health and media literacy can do

When a colleague asked Doctor Caren Cooper, a Research Associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, what the opposite of media was, she paused only briefly before answering, "Reality, of course."

"We each need logic tools to realize that all media is a representation of reality - if we don't bring this realization into our consciousness, we are apt to forget and let our own reality become distorted: fostering a culture of over-consumption, eating disorders, sexual violence, and climate change deniers," she explained.

Teaching health education comprehensively in today's rapidly changing world is important for fostering skills that students will carry with them for the rest of their lives, including:

• Developing positive body affirmations - Accepting their bodies, accepting other's bodies, and showing respect for one another. A good exercise would be to have them write down good things about each other - without the words beautiful, or descriptions of size, as well as what they love about themselves - both physical and character traits.

• Understanding the importance of eating right - And that it's not about "dieting." Perhaps the biggest misconception is that as long as a person loses weight, it doesn't matter what they eat. But it does, and being thin and being healthy are not the same thing. What you eat affects which diseases you may develop, regardless of your size, and diets that may help you lose weight (especially quickly) can be very harmful to your health over time.

• Understanding the importance of exercise - People who eat right but don't exercise, for example, may technically be at a healthy weight, but their fitness level doesn't match. This means that they may carry too much visceral (internal) fat and not enough muscle.

"Given the growing concern about obesity, it is important to let young people know that dieting and disordered eating behaviors can be counterproductive to weight management," said researcher Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. "Young people concerned about their weight should be provided support for healthful eating and physical activity behaviors that can be implemented on a long-term basis, and should be steered away from the use of unhealthy weight control practices."

We must also teach them:

• How to reduce stress by engaging in activities and other outlets.

• The importance of sleep.

• The importance of vitamins.

• The importance of not always being "plugged in" - The natural environment has great health benefits, and too much technology may even be hazardous to our health.

"We're surrounded by media images for such a large portion of our daily lives, it's almost impossible to escape from it," explained IFN representative Collete during an interview with EduCoup. "We get the majority of our information today through media, be it music, TV, the internet, advertising or magazines, so it really is incredibly important for us as a society to think about the messages we receive from the media critically."

Decoding the overload of overbearing messages, then, is pertinent to the health of our minds and bodies, and teaching these skills early will help kids to practice and maintain life-lengthening and positive behaviors for the rest of their lives.

The Significance of Health Care Education

Before we come to the practice of health care education, we must know the principles involved. Health care education brings together the art and science of medicine along with the principles and practice of general education. The link is to be found in the social and behavioral sciences which include sociology, psychology and social anthropology.

Health care education can not be 'given' to one person by another. It involves, among other things, the teaching, learning and inclusion of habits concerned with the objective of healthy living.

The definition adopted by World Health Organization in 1969 and the Alma Ata declaration adopted in 1978 provide a useful basis for formulating the aims and objectives of health care education that may be described as -

o To promote the proper use of healthcare service available to the general people.

o To encourage them to adopt and maintain health promoting lifestyle and practices.

o To develop interest, endow with newer knowledge, improve skills and change attitudes in making rational decisions to solve their own problems

o To stimulate the individual and community self-reliance and participation to achieve health development through individual and community involvement at every step from identifying problems to solving them.

The educational objectives are aimed to the group to be taught in the health care educational program. The objectives flow from the health needs which have been discovered or invented. They should be carefully and unambiguously defined in terms of knowledge to be acquired, behavior to be to be acquired or actions to be mastered. They must be pertinent if the program is to be appropriate and successful.

The focus of health education is on people and on action. Its goal is to make realistic improvements in the basic quality of life. Many health education programs hope, in some way, to influence behavior or attitudes. The implication of these newer concepts is that health care education is an integral part of the national health goals. The fact remains that effective health education has the potential for saving many lives than has any one research discovery in the foreseeable future.

We all know that 'Prevention is better than cure'. Health care education will bring us the knowledge how we can prevent the disease before it surfaces in any individual. In the US, more than 130 billion dollars are spent last year to treat the patients suffering from diseases. By paying one fifth of the amount, incidence of many fatal diseases can be prevented. The surplus amount can be spent to another developmental work for the society.

Healthcare educating will make the standard of living better. Therefore, the status of a particular society will be lifted up. Better habitation, living, education, trade will make us a better human being. This is particularly important for the developing countries where there is not enough money to spend treating diseases through modern approach. It is always better to spend some money to healthcare education in order to lift the level of health consciousness among the common people.