James A. Surrell, M.D., author of the best-selling SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet book, has been a colorectal surgeon for more than 20 years. He gives 50+ presentations a year around the USA to thousands of professionals and people from all walks of life about nutrition, weight loss, cancer prevention and healthy lifestyles. He is a frequent guest on Northern Michigan University's ?Ask the Doctors? TV series and writes a popular column entitled ?Talk with the Doc? for the Marquette Mining Journal. He holds fellowship status in the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. PRESS RELEASE: Thousands Enjoy Rapid and Sustained Weight Loss by Simply Living Without Sugar MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN ? One of the worst kept secrets is that the only reason far too many Americans are obese and overweight because each person in our country consumes some 140 pounds of sugar each year. One of the best kept secrets is that overweight Americans can lose and keep off 5 to 8 pounds a month with a simple diet that is not really a diet but a lifestyle choice. The SOS Diet rules are very simple: Low Sugar, High Fiber, No More Rules! That advice is being followed by the thousands of readers of the best-selling book by Dr. James A. Surrell, MD., SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet. Available in local book stores, on Amazon.com, or through his website at sosdietbook.com During his 20-year plus career as a colon surgeon, Dr. Surrell helped thousands of people lose weight permanently using the short and simple SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet. (ISBN 978-0-9825601-8-1, 4th printing 2013 by Bean Books, LLC, Newberry MI, www.SOSdietbook.com 144 pages, $19.95). The whole book is based on his "MISS" (Make It Short & Simple) concept. ?To lose weight and keep it off all you need to do is become a label reading detective,? stresses Dr. Surrell. ?Just check food and drink labels for low sugar, high fiber and forget everything else! With a little practice you will soon become an expert label reading detective! In no time you will get rid of all the high sugar items and get more fiber in your diet and you will lose weight and feel so much better. And this will change your life forever!? Major findings shared in SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet include: ? High sugar in our diet is the cause of not only the overweight and obesity epidemic in the USA today, but also the main cause of high cholesterol and high blood pressure. ? Sugar substitutes are absolutely safe and risk-free. ? Pre-Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes may double the risk of dementia and Alzheimer?s Disease. ? Know that you can make very healthy fast food choices at fast food restaurants. Dr. Surrell?s book contains useful lists of healthy food choices, bad food choices, good snacks and snacks to be avoided, sugar and fiber levels of popular fruits, and an effective guide for reading labels. ?My thousands of SOS book readers soon learn that with the SOS Diet you can forget about counting calories, forget low fat, forget low cholesterol and forget low carb diets, and forget about the glycemic index, because losing weight is just not all that complicated,? says Dr. Surrell. ?The key to rapid and sustained weight loss can be summed up in just one word ? CHOICE. Choose the SOS Diet low sugar, high fiber diet and the pounds fall off. That?s it.? About Dr. Surrell Dr. Surrell is a board certified colon and rectal surgeon who also holds fellowship status in the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons who focuses his practice on nutrition and weight loss. Because of this focus, Dr. Surrell wrote the regional best-selling book SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet book which has sold more than 15,000 copies in northern Michigan alone. Each year he gives more than 50 talks to thousands of professionals and people of all walks of life on nutrition, weight loss, and healthy lifestyles. His book is available at Amazon.com in both paperback and on Kindle and at: http://www/SOSdietbook.com and local book stores. Media Contact: For a review copy of SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet or to arrange an interview with Dr. Surrell, contact Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or by phone at 734-667-2090 or by cell at: 248-705-2214.