Synopses & Reviews
In 2005,
The Discovery Health National Body Challenge helped thousands of men and women across the country remove more than 395,000 pounds of excess weightalmost to 200 tonsand nearly twice the amount that Challengers lost in 2004. Now best-selling author and Discovery Health Channel medical spokesperson
Dr. Pamela Peeke provides you with all the tools, advice, and encouragement you need to reclaim your health and become a Body Challenge success story yourself.
On the 12-week program, which can be personalized to meet your specific goals, youll learn how to make stress reduction, proper nutrition, and exercise a top priority in your life. Stick with it and youll firm your muscles, burn fat, and handle stress and emotions through an integrated mind-mouth-muscle approach. Youll discover how your slimmed-down, toned-up body will reflect in other, more profound changes including improved health, more energy, and greater self-confidence. You can witness the evidence of the results you can achieve in the remarkable before-and-after pictures and inspiring words of participants who transformed their bodies and lives on the program. Make this is the year you become a participator instead of spectator. Are you up to the Challenge?
Synopsis
The National Body Challenge Book is being produced in conjunction with the #1-rated health program on Discovery Health Channel! Written by acclaimed M.D., Pamela Peeke, this book provides a comprehensive look at the National Body Challenge, which inspires people with specific fitness goals to achieve their aims in less than 3 months. The first part of the book explains the program, the second section presents inspirational success stories, and the third section is a journal that helps participants keep track of their progress.
About the Author
Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P, is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University ofMarland School of Medicine, a Pew Foundation scholar in nutrition and metabolism, and an adjunct senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health. A regular contrbutor to Good Housekeeping, Dr. Peeke is frequently quited in O magazine, Shape, Vogue, Fitness, Glamour, and Redbook. She is the chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV and the spokesperson for its National Body Challenge. She appears as an in-studio expert for CNN and the networks.