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Plan Daniel: 40 Days To A Healthier Life (2013)

by Rick Warren(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

031033943X (ISBN13: 9780310339434)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: The title comes from the Biblical Daniel. The author integrates faith, food, fitness, focus and friends in order to lead an optimal healthy life. This is not simply a weight loss plan although if these principles are followed that will result. When Pastor Rick Warren (also author of The Purpose Driven Life) began his program in his church in California, the results were astounding. Not only did 15,000 people from his congregation lose a significant amount of weight, he saw the changes in them went far beyond that. He saw their relationship with God become closer as well as their relationship with others.Co-authors Doctors Daniel Amen and Mark Hyman lend their medical expertise. They reinforce the current findings that it is not so much the healthy fats in our diets that n... moreeed to be avoided, but rather the sugar and wheat(carbs). These are the culprits behind heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and even Alzheimers.I am not someone who is extremely overweight, but I certainly need to lose more than a few pounds. I came upon this book from a fellow parishioner. She and I have been doing this together. What I realized as I began reading The Daniel Plan is that I have always relied on myself to become healthier and I always end up reverting back to old, unhealthy habits. The first principle in the plan is faith; I need to ask God for His help, and having friends along for the journey also helps. The other thing I liked about all the authors had to say was that not only does the science make sense, but they are realistic and very aware of how our human natures can be weak. They let us know that there will be setbacks at times because that is just life.The Daniel Plan is about living the way God created us to live and about eating the good healthy foods He, not some factory, created.
review 2: Well, we all want to eat better, lose weight, get healthier, etc. Problem is that motivation is sometimes low. Before there was a Daniel Plan, the idea worked for me to incorporate the spiritual in my struggle. After all, God gave me a body, and if I spend all my time abusing it and hating it, that takes up a lot of mental real estate that I could be using to do great things for Him! Right? Daniel Plan makes this model comprehensive. Getting healthy is a matter of worship, because God created and gave you a specific body and He likes it when we respect and take care of the gifts we've been given. So it's an eating and exercise plan, but also incorporating faith and how to work with your thoughts as well. Great inspirational read. less

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