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Our mission is to provide information that gives you the ability to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle that adapts to change-one that naturally manages your weight, keeps you fit, promotes good health, and gives you a Body of Knowledge.

Most doctors share a common dream-to help cure those who are in need and to do something really special in their career. While I enjoy every facet of my medical and surgical practice, overall my professional sense of accomplishment has come from successfully helping people transform their lives through the Body of Knowledge system.

Body of Knowledge, or BOK (pronounced "Be Okay"), is the result of twenty years of study, research, and working with people who have come to me overweight, out of shape, and often despondent. I believe that my vision and expertise mirrors an emerging public demand for healthy lifestyle programs. I have found that most people prefer a blend of truth and essential information in an organized, facts-driven format over the gimmick-driven and "quick fix" weight loss plans of the past. This new enthusiasm could not have come at a better time. Serious health problems associated with weight gain in both adults and children are increasing across the nation. Even though there are more diet and fitness plans on the market than any time in history, there are more people considered obese and overweight than ever before (over half of our population). I have special concern about the childhood obesity epidemic.

My quest is to help you design your own weight, fitness, and life-management plan; I'll give you the essential information and techniques you'll need to customize it to match your personal goals and lifestyle.

My personal message to you is this: there is no one better qualified to create a health plan for you than you. Use the Body of Knowledge system as your guide and consider me your teacher. My wish is for you to be armed with all the knowledge you need to once again take control of your health.

The BOK system is not a magic bullet or a fad diet but a sensible, sustainable program for managing weight and promoting good health. As you will see in the coming pages, the BOK system is designed to help individuals learn how a healthy body should function and how to "unlearn" their unhealthy habits. Then we use the BOK system to help individuals create a personal plan for healthy living that makes sense for them.

Body of Knowledge is also addressing the critical rise in health care costs. It is no coincidence that medical expenses and health insurance premiums mirror the rise in obesity cases and other related health problems. However, recent studies show that some overweight and obese employees who lost weight not only reduced their employers' health care costs but were also rewarded a portion of the savings, which encouraged them to keep the weight off longer. Better health results in proven savings for everyone. Individuals pay for fewer doctor visits, emergency room admissions, surgeries, and prescriptions. Companies save on a decrease in sick leave, fewer employees retrained, and reduced disability costs; they also benefit from the increase in productivity, innovation, and employee morale. In addition, allowing primary care physicians and specialists to utilize a more effective preventative care model instead of continuing to treat the end-stage diseases associated with obesity (heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, etc.) is a win-win situation.

The Body of Knowledge system is exciting because it offers a realistic plan to help people make life-altering, life-affirming changes. If enough people take the precepts of Body of Knowledge to heart, it could have an impact beyond all of our dreams. What if we lived in a world where

• all food choices were healthy choices-made cost-effective and available due to consumer demand;
• fast food and junk food in the home, schools, and the workplace were eliminated;
• businesses and health insurance companies offered bonuses or incentives to reward employees and clients who achieve and maintain better health;
• parents and schools taught children the foundation of healthy living so no one was programmed with bad habits that follow them through life;
• obesity and health-related problems were only read about in history books.

This is my dream, my quest-to make sure that you and your family will B-OK. And I'll take it one meal, one workout, and one person at a time. Good health and all my best, Dr. B.