Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series : Weight Loss

In the Healthy Living series, Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with the nation’s top medical experts and organizations to give emotional support and important information to patients with specific medical needs. The books feature approximately ten heartwarming stories from real people dealing and thriving with all aspects of the condition, followed by relevant medical advice that will positively impact the reader’s life. Subjects such as diet, psychological issues, family relations, and alternative therapies will exist side-by-side with traditional subjects such as understanding common medical terms, the effects of treatment options, and the doctor-patient relationship. Each book will also contain source notes and a resources section for more information and support.

The goal is to give people the information they need in a new format that is interesting, heartfelt, personal and ultimately uplifting. Many people buy medicine for their bodies; the Chicken Soup Healthy Living series is medicine for the soul.

Key Features:

• Leverages the power of the brand—and especially its uplifting, heartwarming connotations—into the medical arena, where patients are eager for personal, empathetically presented information.

• Many people fail on diets because they lack the motivation or burn out. The stories and triumphs in this book will provide that needed motivation.

• This book is designed for anyone who wants to lose weight, but most specifically for those who have been told that losing weight is critical to their overall health. This is a not a topic being taken lightly

• Dr. Andrew Larson has developed a proven exercise and diet program, and this book will dovetail nicely with the April 2005 release of that book, The Gold Coast Cure.

• Low price point makes this a perfect impulse purchase.

Author Highlights

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are the #1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Andrew Larson, M.D., is a general surgeon with special interests in surgical nutrition and endocrine surgery. Trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, he recently joined a private surgical practice in Atlantis, FL. Along his wife Ivy, an MS sufferer, he developed a fitness and nutrition program that has reversed the symptoms of MS and other chronic diseases. That program is the basis of his upcoming book, The Gold Coast Cure:A Five-Week Program to Lose Weight, Shape Up, and Reverse the Symptoms of Ten Chronic Diseases.