Article: Pumpkin pie gone? Snack on exercise tapes next

Leftover-turkey sandwiches are history, the pumpkin pie is kaput and suddenly zippers are getting harder to close all over America. With another month of holiday eating looming in the future, it's easy to get panicky. It's also just as easy to check out a new exercise video.

Although exercise tapes have been phenomenally successful ever since Jane Fonda's first, breakthrough "Workout" tape, sales usually heat up during the holiday season. Then, after grim reality hits and New Year's Day resolutions go into effect, sales peak again in January and February.

"Usually sales are best at the beginning of the year when people are turning over a new leaf," said Amy Alter, publicist for MCA ...

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