FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- eDiets.com, Inc. , leveraging the Internet and technology to bring diet, fitness, and healthy lifestyle solutions to market, announced today that is has named seven health and nutrition experts to its Board of Advisors. The board is to meet

for the first time in January 2007 and was appointed to assist both eDiets.com and Nutrio grow their leadership positions in the healthy lifestyle space. The primary role of the board is to promote weight loss for better health, particularly in light of detrimental conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. The board members represent expertise from key health and wellness disciplines including obesity, sports dietetics, obstetrics, gynecology, nutrition, diabetes, cardiology, and psychology.

"The Board of Advisors will give eDiets.com access to a range of crucial third party experts outside the company who can aid us immensely in realizing our commitment to weight loss and disease prevention," said Steve Rattner, President of eDiets.com

  The seven members of the eDiets.com Board of Advisors include:

  -- Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD, Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She
     specializes in weight management for performance including nutrition,
     exercise, wellness, and the management of eating disorders for
     athletes.

  -- Jay Cohen, MD, FACOG, Obstetrician and gynecologist at All Women's
     Healthcare of West Broward and Medical Director for Parity Health
     Corporation. His areas of focus in women's health include life-stage
     weight management, cervical cancer and osteoporosis.

  -- Dr. Nancy Collins, PhD, RD, LD/N, Founder and Executive Director of
     RD411.com and a Consultant Dietician. Her specialty is in adult weight
     management.

  -- Lorena Drago, MS, RD, CDN, CDE, Director of the Women, Infants and
     Children Supplemental Nutrition Program at Lincoln Hospital. She is
     also a certified diabetes educator and a diabetes management consultant

     for New York Presbyterian Hospital.

  -- Dr. Shahram Hormozi, MD, General & Interventional Cardiologist, Island
     Heart Associates, LLP. His medical specialties include interventional
     cardiology and cardiovascular disease.

  -- Ann Kearney-Cooke, PhD, Director of The Cincinnati Psychotherapy
     Institute. She specializes in the treatment of adolescents and adults
     with eating disorders, body image distortion, trauma, and midlife
     transitions.

  -- Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, Owner, Hope Warshaw
     Associates, LLC. She is a nutrition consultant, media spokesperson,
     published author and freelance writer, and diabetes educator.

The board will help eDiets.com and Nutrio structure their ongoing response to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, as well as help their community of members achieve a healthy lifestyle through weight loss.

About eDiets.com

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, eDiets.com, Inc. is a premier online diet, fitness, and healthy living destination offering professional advice, information, products and services to those seeking to improve their health and longevity. In addition to offering more than 20 personalized online nutrition and fitness programs and around-the-clock expert and peer-based online support services, eDiets.com members enjoy direct access to a wealth professional advice, information, and motivation from the company's network of health industry experts in a variety of fields, including nutrition, fitness, and motivation, among others. Founded in 1996 and with more than two million membership subscriptions sold to date, eDiets.com operates Web sites at http://www.ediets.com/, http://www.efitness.com/, http://www.edietsexpress.com/, and http://www.gleemagazine.com/, and publishes a family of industry-leading opt-in electronic newsletters that reach millions of health-conscious consumers nationwide.

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  MEDIA CONTACT:
  Colleen McCarthy
  RF|Binder Partners for eDiets.com
  (212) 994-7546
  colleen.mccarthy@rfbinder.com

CONTACT: Colleen McCarthy, RF|Binder Partners for eDiets.com, +1-212-994-7546, colleen.mccarthy@rfbinder.com

Web site: http://www.ediets.com/ http://www.efitness.com/ http://www.edietsexpress.com/ http://www.gleemagazine.com/