Mens Health

The publisher of Prevention, Men's Health, Women's Health and other magazines has agreed to settle a case brought by the Florida Attorney General that raised questions about the company's sales practices. Under the agreement, Pennyslvania-based Rodale,Inc., which also publishes and sells books,...

Ardath Rodale, former chairman and longtime matriarch of the Rodale health-publishing family, which produces the magazines Prevention, Organic Gardening and Men's Health, has died at 81, according to a statement from the company. No cause of death was given.

Publisher Rodale just redrew its org chart, but one person was conspicuously missing. That's Men's Health editor David Zinczenko, who embarrassed the company last week with revelations of a cookie-cutter scheme for producing covers.

David Zinczenko, the always-camera-ready editor in chief of Rodale Inc.'s Men's Health, once described the ideal effect of a magazine's cover copy as a "newsstand mugging." But Men's Health readers may feel robbed, in more ways than one, once they realize how very, very often the publication's...

The Florida Attorney General's office is investigating the sales tactics of Rodale Inc., publisher of Men's Health and Prevention magazines, Walletpop.com has learned. To keep private some of what has been obtained by investigators under subpoena, Rodale went to court to block its release.