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"The Facebook Diet" Wins a Gold in the Mom's Choice Award's for Humor Books
1888 PressRelease - Independent publisher, Live Consciously's latest title, The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug, wins the 2013 Mom's Choice Gold Award for Humor Books.

Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Independent publisher, Live Consciously, (http://www.liveconsciouslynow.com) is pleased to announce that its most recent title, The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug with a Digital Detox, the first book in The Unplug Series - a collection of seriously funny books for social media addicts, geeks and the overly wired world - has received the highly acclaimed Mom's Choice® Gold Award 2013 in the category of humor books.

Author and illustrator of the series, Gemini Adams, comments, "I'm so proud of this win. The Unplug Series (www.unplugseries.com) is all about getting families to explore the health of their high-tech habits by using humor to open the door for honest discussion and self-awareness. Because we live in an always-on, hyper-connected, screen-centric world, we are becoming more and more dissociated with each other. Families, particularly those with teenagers, increasingly struggle to find time for healthy face-to-face interaction and connection away from the screen. While The Facebook Diet has had a lot of media coverage, having been featured on The Today Show, The Huffington Post and Reuters, I truly hope this award will draw further attention to the subject of how technology is impacting our mental, physical health and wellbeing, particularly for families and teenagers."

The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug with a Digital Detox (ISBN: 978-0955465635) offers a hilarious look at the most idiotic, embarrassing and cringe-worthy behaviors of our social media excess through 50 cartoons that complete the question, "You Know You're a Facebook Addict When...?" - published by Live Consciously Publishing, Ltd. in the USA, May 2013, this illustrated

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