What we find is what the sensible books have been recommending. These were people who had a high-fat diet. We cut fat below 30 percent and they did not gain weight.

In retrospect, we're not surprised at that. It's difficult to get huge numbers of diverse people to change their eating habits.

What people like us in the nutritional-sciences field try to get people to understand is, there are no quick fixes. Drastically reducing carbohydrates or eating grapefruits all day isn't going to work in the long run.

She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.

Those books were re-printed, but they came out very late this year and because of that some of our exhibits are down.

I think an upside to book stocks will come if these two books generate a lot of traffic into bookstores and boost sales of other books as well.