Jeff Csatari

Writer / Editor

United States

> Veteran producer of original content, magazine writer/editor for print and digital, and author/ghostwriter of 15 nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller The Belly Off! Diet, The Abs Diet Cookbook, The Big Book of Uncommon Knowledge, The Better Man Project, and The 14-Day No-Sugar Diet.
> Held executive-level editor positions at Eat This, Not That!, Men's Health, Men's Journal, Men's Journal Gear Guide, Prevention, Popular Science, and Boys' Life.
> Launched three magazines: Verge (Times Mirror), MH-18 (Rodale), and Best Life (Rodale).
> Editorial director of 60+ international magazines and websites.

Portfolio

MAGAZINES * DIGITAL * COPYWRITING

Men's Health
06/01/2017
Be A Backyard Badass

Fend off wild animals! Keep kill bees! Serve kills beers! Have sex in trees! Build a bazooka! Blast rockets! Raise a ruckus this summer!

Popular Mechanics
12/05/2019
Roasting Coffee Is Harder Than You Think

César Vega pours a steaming cup from the first pot of the morning in the 4,000 square-foot Brooklyn roastery of Café Integral, a boutique coffee shop with cafés in Manhattan, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His visitor usually takes cream. "Maybe not today," Vega suggests. He's right. This is a stellar cup of coffee, unencumbered.

HuffPost
08/20/2015
The Lessons of Bees

On National Honey Bee Day, let's give props to our pollinators and, maybe, learn how to be better humans. by guest blogger Jeff Csatari, executive editor of Men's Health and Women's Health books Once upon a time...I was a bee.

Rodale, Wenner, Times Mirror, Hearst
Magazines

Magazine clients

Men's Health
04/16/2012
Top Tips from Boston Marathon Legends

Thirty years after battling the final miles of the most grueling and unforgettable of the 115 Boston Marathons-the 1982 race known as the "Duel in the Sun"-winner Alberto Salazar and second-place finisher Dick Beardsley offered some tips to today's runner's facing unseasonable temperatures in Boston.

Men's Health for Teens
MH-18 Covers

Two covers from the spin-off Men's Health spinoff magazine for teen boys.

Men's Health
01/02/2014
The High Price of Low Testosterone

I'm in the bathroom, door locked, staring at the mirror, stripped down to the heart-covered boxers my wife, Kathy, gave me for Valentine's Day. As I hold the 0.5 cc syringe, I'm humming Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done"-a bit of black humor to pump up enough courage to jab the hypodermic into my abdomen.

Nutrisystem
01/01/2016
South Beach Diet Handbook

South Beach Diet program instructional handbook for Nutrisystem direct marketing project.

Men's Health
06/02/2015
30 Ways to Be a Better Man This Month

"Just relax and breathe through your ass." - Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith Already mastered that one? Cool. Then here are 30 other ways to become a little bit better than you were yesterday. If you like these, you'll find 2,000 more in The Better Man Project , your guidebook to living a kick-ass existence, by Men's Health Editor-in-Chief Bill Phillips.

Men's Health
06/15/2014
Our American Possibility: A Father's Day Essay

Fifty-nine percent of the U.S. now believes that the American Dream is impossible for most Americans to achieve, according to a new poll conducted by ORC International for CNN/Money. I never liked that phrase "American Dream" and now I like it even less. Dreaming is passive.

Saturdayeveningpost
10/31/2016
The Illustrator's Apprentice

As a boy, I loved to sit in my father's studio listening to the scratch, scratch, scratch of his paintbrush on the stretched canvas on his easel and see the strokes of color gradually grow into pictures. He whistled while he worked - mostly Sinatra tunes, Beethoven, some Willie Nelson.

Eat This, Not That! magazine
03/01/2018
No More Sugar Cravings

The math is simple: Fewer sweets equal better health.

Women's Health
05/06/2008
A Girl's World

I live in a house full of estrogen: nine X chromosomes, one guY. My wife and I have three wonderful daughters--girly girls, all of them--and like any dad, I'm lovestruck. But I have to admit it's a challenge trying to stay true to my guy roots in a home so thoroughly dominated by frilly shit: Hello Kitty, American Girl, Webkinz paraphernalia.

Spartan Life
12/04/2017
How to Cut Out Sugar: 8 Solutions To Help You Do It | Spartan Race

More than 84 million Americans have pre-diabetes, a condition that often leads to type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even more alarming, most of those people don't know it. And I was one of them. A standard blood test called the Hemoglobin A1C, or A1C for short, told me so.

BOOKS

Rodale and Dorling Kindersley publishers
Authored Books

A few of the books I've written.

Amazon
The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.

New York Times bestselling author Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, the global health and wellness platform, leader in obstacle racing, and executive producer of NBC's television show Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, challenges you to live The Spartan Way.Determined to yank 100 million pe...

A Men's Health Book
Your Best Body at 40+

Hardcover book featuring a 4-week fitness and diet plan designed for men over age 40.

Amazon
Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts of America

A history of 100 years of Scouting artwork, featuring 50 paintings each by Norman Rockwell and his successor Joseph Csatari written by Joseph Csatari and Jeff Csatari.

Galvanized Media
03/01/2018
The 14-Day No Sugar Diet

Paperback book created in 5 weeks for Galvanized Media, LLC and published by Simon & Schuster.