Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation

Pamela Peeke

Rodale, Apr 16, 2005 - Health & Fitness - 288 pages

The bestselling Body-for-Life™ program is now tailored just for women-to help them achieve dramatic weight loss and body-changing fitness in just 12 weeks!

The #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life helped millions of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., bestselling author of Fight Fat After Forty, adapts the unique insights of the Body-for-Life program to the specific hormonal, metabolic, and physiological requirements of women so they can achieve the same life-transforming results.

Dr. Peeke draws on cutting-edge research as she fashions a 12-week eating, exercise, and emotional health program, specially tailored to women. Among the book's highlights:
o Stunning new before-and-after photographs with testimonials
o Over 100 black-and-white photographs demonstrating the exercises
o A Q&A section that anticipates and answers questions the reader might have

Dr. Peeke's appearances on Oprah, Larry King Live, Dateline, Primetime, Today Show, CNN Headline News, and other shows illustrate how inspirational she can be-and never more than in this book, motivating and instructing readers to make the changes that will produce a lifetime of mind and body fitness.

About the author

PAMELA PEEKE, M.D., M.P.H. clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and adjunct senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, is a regular contributor to Good Housekeeping and is frequently quoted in magazines such as Self, Allure, Elle, Glamour, and Redbook. She is the medical advisor and spokesperson for Discovery Health's National Body Challenge, and the medical director for the National Women's Resource Center. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
• Author: Pamela Peeke
• Contributor: Cindy Crawford
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Rodale, 2005
• ISBN: 1579546013, 9781579546014
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / General; Health & Fitness / Healthy Living; Health & Fitness / Women's Health