Do Magazines Help or Hinder?

I have been intrigued by what is printed in magazines.

I have several floating around in the piles in my room-- Cover Headlines include: (my comment in parenthesis)  

Buff Body-- (which fit-model did they copy the program from?)

 Holy Butt! -- (we all have one... we just need to use it!)

All You can Eat Fat-Burning Diet -- (eat more veggies and fruits!) 

Get Flat Sexy Abs In Just Six Minutes -- (I WISH!!  only six minutes??  i want my money back!)

Zap Fat-- (is this  a new fad gizmo that i can just zap fat-- or do they not realize spot training doesn't happen.) 

Is Lipo for you?  -- (a fitness mag is promoting lipo-suction?  how about eating properly?)

Firm Abs Fast--  (ok, is that faster than the six minute abs in the other mag..)

And here, I am poking fun at the headlines....  There may be very good information inside the covers of these mags... i don't know, i am stuck on the headlines.  

What are women seeking?  And how is this helping or harming?  Where is and to whom is the responsibility?  After reading one of these mags, do you feel better about yourself, armed to make better choices?  or do you feel worse?

I like reading occasionally various supermarket mags for different ideas of the same.  Sometimes, as a coach, the imagination feels tapped out.  So reading something from here or the journals or someone else's blog helps turn on the light-bulb!  The problem as a coach is when we don't take the info and use it for our own needs.  We try to make the mag workout/program fit our needs... and so, then why is someone hiring a coach?

I am just curious how one feels about themselves when reading some of this literature on the shelves.  Do you feel inspired?  Do you feel ready to conquer the world?  or do you feel less of a person b/c you do not measure up to the supermarket shelves standards?