eDiets.com(R) Partners with Discovery Health Channel for the National Body Challenge

eDiets.com(R) Partners with Discovery Health Channel for the National Body Challenge National Body Challenge Participants to Get Free eDiets.com Trial Membership DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help Americans improve their health and longevity, eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIET), a premier online diet, fitness and healthy living destination, is providing hundreds of thousands of Discovery Health Channel 2005 National Body Challenge participants with free tools to help ensure their success. The Discovery Health Channel 2005 National Body Challenge is a free comprehensive 8-week weight loss and fitness program that leverages television and the Internet to give people information, resources and inspiration to help them meet their personal health goals. Hundreds of thousands of National Body Challenge participants received a free 8-week trial membership to eDiets.com's personalized online diet and fitness plan that includes custom-tailored weekly menus, exercise regimens, shopping lists, online progress tracking tools, and an expert and peer-based support community among other features. The Discovery Health Channel 2005 National Body Challenge kicked off January 15, 2005, with weigh-ins at Discovery Stores across the country and online. Interested consumers who did not register can still access great nutrition and diet information and can also sign up for the weekly National Body Challenge email newsletter at http://www.discovery.com/health. The Discovery Health Channel National Body Challenge television series airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). Hosted by former Saturday Night Live cast member Ellen Cleghorne, the eight-week series is designed to keep participants on track with personal stories of transformation, along with an in-depth look at obesity, diet and nutrition. In anticipation of the surge in National Body Challenge participants, eDiets.com designated January 2005 Healthy Living Month. Throughout the month, eDiets.com is offering free resources at http://www.ediets.com/healthyliving to educate and inform people on how to live healthier. These resources include a downloadable "Guide to Healthy Living: from New Year's to the Super Bowl," a wide range of interactive health calculators including a Diet Age Test and a Carbohydrate Counter, and a wealth of healthy living expert advice. About eDiets.com eDiets.com is a premier one-stop online diet and healthy living destination offering professional advice, information, products and services to consumers seeking to improve their nutrition and fitness. Since 1997 and as of September 30, 2004, over 1.8 million consumers worldwide have become eDiets.com members. Among other honors and awards received, eDiets.com has been named a Forbes spring 2004 "Best of the Web" in the diet and nutrition category, and a PC Magazine "Editors' Choice" in May 2004. eDiets.com is a public company (NASDAQ:DIET) headquartered in Deerfield Beach, FL. that operates Web sites at http://www.ediets.com/ and http://www.efitness.com/, and publishes and distributes one of the Internet's leading electronic newsletters with an opt-in circulation base of over 13 million subscribers. About Discovery Health Channel Discovery Health Channel takes viewers inside the fascinating and informative world of health and medicine to experience firsthand compelling, real-life stories of medical breakthroughs and human triumphs. Currently in more than 56 million homes, Discovery Health Channel is the only 24-hour network and Web site (discovery.com/health) devoted to what matters most -- health. Source: Discovery Health Channel; eDiets.com CONTACT: Eric Goldman of Neale-May & Partners, +1-212-213-5400, ext. 202, egoldman@nealemay.com, for eDiets.com; or Shannon Martin of Discovery Health Channel, +1-240-662-2245, Shannon_Martin@discovery.com Web site: http://www.discovery.com/ http://www.ediets.com/ http://www.efitness.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment