Hungry Girl is a free daily e-mail subscription service about healthy eating that launched in May 2004. Approximately one million people receive HG's daily emails.

Hungry Girl is run by Lisa Lillien, a media executive, who has also held positions at Nickelodeon and Warner Bros. Hungry Girl has been product placed in several Nickelodeon shows, such as Drake and Josh and iCarly

ICarly

iCarly is an American sitcom that focuses on a girl named Carly Shay who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. The series was created by Dan Schneider, who also serves as executive producer. It stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly, Jennette McCurdy as Sam, Nathan...

. (Lillien is married to TV producer Dan Schneider

Dan Schneider (TV producer)

Daniel James "Dan" Schneider is an American songwriter, actor, writer, and producer of films and television. He is the co-president of his own production company called Schneider's Bakery....

, creator and head writer of both those shows.) iCarly actor Jerry Trainor

Jerry Trainor

Gerald William "Jerry" Trainor is an American actor, comedian and voice actor, widely known for playing Spencer Shay on iCarly. He is also known as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh and the title character, Dudley Puppy, on T.U.F.F. Puppy...

 has also appeared in the webseries.

In addition to daily e-mails, Hungry Girl content is seen regularly on Yahoo, WeightWatchers.com, Seventeen magazine, People Style Watch, the New York Daily News, Redbook Magazine, and on the TV shows Extra, The Rachael Ray Show and Good Morning America. The first Hungry Girl book was released on April 29, 2008, under the title Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. The book was published and distributed by St. Martins Press. The book debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. The next two Hungry Girl books, "200 Under 200" and "Hungry Girl 1-2-3" debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. A Hungry Girl television show premiered on Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel is a television specialty channel that airs recurring programs about food and cooking, owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. It is a spinoff of Food Network, also owned by SNI, but focuses more on instructional shows rather than "reality style" and contest programming that Food...

 in January of 2011 and was produced by Schneider's Bakery

Schneider's Bakery

Schneider's Bakery Productions, Inc. is a television production company founded by Dan Schneider.Series produced under the Schneider's Bakery banner are noted for using the same stable of writers on all series, something that is atypical for scripted television series and especially sitcoms that...

, Lillien's husband's company. Later that year, the series moved to Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

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