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How many people are willing to devote an entire year to combat one of our nation’s greatest enemies? That’s exactly what health crusader Jordan Rubin will do on New Year’s Day when he’ll embark on a year-long, 200 city bus tour of the United States to help Americans shed pounds. Rubin has his bags packed to travel more than 44,000 miles and along the way he’ll sign 100,000 copies of his new Perfect Weight America book (www.perfectweightamerica.com), speak at 250 public events, shake more hands than Mike Huckabee, and even adopt families in serious need of total health makeovers.

Why is the New York Times best selling author opting for life on the road when he could just as easily sit in his comfy West Palm Beach office and leave book sales to his publisher? Rubin says it’s because he’s committed to sharing a message of health that Americans need to hear – and to let people know that they are killing themselves with their knives and forks at staggering rates.
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“In many homes, the average diet of processed convenience foods has resulted in fat parents, fat kids, and a fat family dog who has feasted on too many leftovers,” said Rubin. “What I’m concerned with is the millions of Americans who genuinely want to lose weight but are discouraged from failing on so many diets. With the Perfect Weight America program, I will show them how they can finally succeed and achieve a ‘perfect weight’ where they can feel and look their best.”

Rubin is no stranger to health journeys. In 1995, he battled Crohn’s and several diseases that puzzled more than 70 doctors and specialists on three continents. When his strapping six foot frame wilted to a skeletal 104 pounds, Rubin began a diet of healthy “living foods” rich in vitamins, enzymes, and probiotics. Consuming a whole foods diet similar to what his ancestors ate in Biblical times, Rubin reclaimed control over his health and vowed to devoted the rest of his life to transforming the health of others one life at a time.

Rubin became well known to millions in 2004 when he wrote the New York Times and USA Today best-seller The Maker’s Diet. But Perfect Weight America (Siloam Press), which hits bookstores January 2, is his most ambitious work to date because it encourages readers to “Change Your Diet, Change Your Life, Change Your World.”

Traveling in a 45 foot red, white, and blue Perfect Weight America bus outfitted with bold graphics, Jordan will be recognizable to many fans who are already buying tickets and making plans to hear him speak in cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Tulsa, Boston, and Baltimore. They’ll greet him at bookstores, health food stores, gyms, organic farms, hotels, churches, and town halls to hear about how “globesity” will lead to chronic diseases and to 75 percent of adults being classified as overweight by 2015. Sick, worried, and discouraged by their failing health in many cases, the crowds are banking on Rubin to show them a better way.

Caedmon’s Call’s lyrically compelling song about redemption, “Ten Thousand Angels” will receive a rare and lengthy place on an upcoming episode of the ABC hit drama series “Grey’s Anatomy” on January 10th. Featuring vocals by Derek Webb, the song will play for five consecutive minutes during an emotionally charged final scene.

In order for the song to fit the length of the scene, an extra minute was even edited in, and with lyrics including ‘so lift up your heart now, to this unfolding, all that has been broken will be restored, here runs deep waters for all who are thirsty, love has come, love has come for you’, its use on one of television’s biggest shows is especially uncommon.
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“It’s an honor to be asked to help carry some of the emotional weight of a powerhouse show like Grey’s,” says Webb. “ I think the spiritual significance of a song like “Ten Thousand Angels” will have some really special chemistry with what is bound to be an important episode in the season.”

“Ten Thousand Angels” is a bonus track on the group’s current release, Overdressed, which was in the top 5 (no. 5) of iTunes Editorial list of 2007 for overall “Best Christian Albums”. For three days only, catch a sneak peek listen to “Ten Thousand Angels” at this link: http://www.inorecords.com/caedmonscall/tenthousandangels.mp3.

For the latest information on all things happening with Caedmon’s Call, check out their official website www.caedmonscall.com, www.caedmonscall.net, www.myspace.com/caedmonscall.

INO/ Columbia Record’s innovative singer/songwriter Derek Webb has once again received high honors for his critically acclaimed release The Ringing Bell.  The project was    No. 27 out of 100 on Paste Magazine’s top albums of the year list, and then ChristianityToday.com editors considered Webb’s latest their No. 11 favorite album of the year, his fourth consecutive year on their list.

This week XM Satellite Loft Sessions will run an exclusive interview/performance series with Derek Webb.  This will be one full hour of Webb telling stories and playing different songs from projects past and present.  The Loft Sessions is where XM invites their favorite artists up to the “loft” and asks them to create their ideal intimate musical session. 
This spring Webb will hit the highway with friends and fellow
musicians Caedmon’s Call on a nationwide tour beginning in February and running through the end of April (more details on tour TBA). 

In addition, Webb’s latest Americana radio single “Name” was recently featured on ABC’S hit drama series “Grey’s Anatomy”.  Be sure to tune in during the December 20th episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” to listen for Caedmon’s Call song “Ten Thousand Angels” (check your local listings for more details). 

For all the latest information on Derek Webb, click on www.derekwebb.com <http://www.derekwebb.com> or go to www.myspace.com/derekwebb <http://www.myspace.com/derekwebb