Weight Loss Books More Popular than Ever
Posted by loseweight on 26 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: publications
While there are plenty of weight loss programs out there to help people shed those unwanted pounds and tone up their flabby winter hungover bodies for the summer beach season, it seems that more people than ever are returning to good old fashioned books to help them get back into a trimmer shape.
Sales of new and established weight loss books are rising and with several great new books hitting the bookshelves recently, the trend for overweight people to read their way to a slimmer figure appears to be on the increase. But its not only the hardback and paperback versions of these great books that are seeing a rise in sales. With the growing trend towards technology seeing more people than ever becoming owners of tablets such as the iPad and its copiers as well as the fantastically popular Kindle reader from online book giant Amazon, sales of the cheaper ebook versions of these great publications have skyrocketed.
You can buy a book published for the Kindle for a fraction of the price of the paperback price in the book stores. With ownership of Kindle readers growing daily and especially since Christmas saw huge volumes of Kindle devices sold, there is a massively growing market for electronic books. The good news is that authors and publishers are well aware of this side to the industry and are creating electronic versions of their hardcopy books for people to enjoy.
So how does reading a book compare to signing up to one of the major diets for losing weight?
For many people, reading a good book can be more inspiring and motivating than many propriety diet programs. This is simply because the most effective authors are able to stoke the fire and create interest while providing detailed diet instructions, recipes and plans all in a single book that costs far less than any diet program, online or in the real world.
So whether you like to read a real book that you can hold in your hand, or prefer the convenience of downloading a cheaper version onto your Kindle or iPad, the option is there and it is well worth investing the small amount of money in that it costs to educate yourself. Information is power, remember?
In a joint effort to protect consumers from being misled by advertising, promotion and sale in pharmacies and other pharmaceutical outlets of HGC products for the specific purpose of losing weight, the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to companies who have been identified as illegally marketing them.
People are giving friends and family the gift of a lifetime to an overweight recipient in a 
After a lot of cloak and dagger backroom planning and stealth which saw affiliates prevented from starting cleverly crafted rumors to put out teasers that there would be a new celebrity coming on board soon, the news broke this morning. The official announcement was made that pop star Janet Jackson is that big name celebrity who will act as spokesperson for the company. She is featured in a new collection of advertisements for the company and has lost weight herself using Nutrisystem as the basis of her latest diet.
There is always a great deal of excitement whenever a breakthrough is made in the field of weight maintenance and prevention of obesity. This time around, research into ways of delivering a potential weight loss linked hormone into the blood stream has come up with a novel approach. Researchers from Syracuse University under the leadership of Robert Doyle, PhD in conjunction with a team at Australia’s Murdoch University have found that they can deliver PYY, which is a human hormone responsible for regulating appetite and energy, into the body orally.