CBC 13ff, 16-18, 21, 43, 225, 231-241
L 85, 86ff
emergency food pack 99-103
147 erosion of health is a social justice issue
225 Huntington, WVA is worst city 225

A great book that focuses on the whole person! Trusting God and doing our best to take care of what He has given us.
I truly enjoyed the whole book. It is also my next small group that begins next month. It is not a diet, it is a plan to use for the rest of our lives. Processed food and sugar are killing us! I've been on it for 2 weeks and I already feel better.

This book has made me label conscious.

As a single person, I got out of the habit of cooking for myself. I have actually enjoyed it! I can freeze the extra and have ready made meals and the recipes are delicious. I can't wait for the cookbook.

I don't want my senior years to be packed with medications and doctor appointments. Eating healthy, exercising both body and faith in God, and having a support group of people who want the same will help me accomplish that goal. ( )

I started the program having already lost the weight through Weight Watchers, but this added a lot more and had me focus on healthier foods. I really liked the focus and faith parts of the book. I know that this is a lifestyle change and I pray that many more people discover this program and change their lives. ( )

As a pastor you want to set an example for your church. Rick Warren, currently hosting 25,000 people in his Sadlleback Church services, realized on the day he was baptizing 800+ people, how many people had overweight.....including himself. He confessed his disobedience to God's commandment to treat the body as temple of the Holy Spirit to his congregation. Warren needed to lose weight and asked if anyone wanted to join him. Instead of the expected 200 people this stirred as much as 15,000 churchgoers to sign up and get rid of over 260,000 pounds in the first year. From the initial stage Warren collaborated with two doctors, Daniel Amen & Mark Hyman, and a fitness specialist to detail The Daniel Plan.
The subtitle, 40 Days to a Healthier Life, may suggest a similar book to The Purpose Driven Life or The Purpose Driven Church. The Daniel Plan was inspired by the biblical prophet Daniel who served with his friends in the king's court in Babylon: "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.(..) Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink (...) At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead." (verses from Daniel 1 in New International Version).
Can you be as strong as Daniel? Then a 40-days devotional is not what you need. The Daniel Plan is not like an average lose weight program or crash diet. The secret's in a supportive community relying on God’s instruction for living. The book's elaborates on the powerful combination of faith, fitness, food, focus, and friends will change your health forever, transforming you in the most head-turning way imaginably---from the inside out. Faith and Friends as unmistakably biblical sound frames for having God's love instead of fear, shame and guilt as motivators, alongside buddies devoted to the same goal: become more healthy. Warren is eager to embed the purpose driven elements, without repeating previous books. The doctors contribute with a wealth of knowledge on good and bad food and their consequences for your body, soul and mind. The fitness expert brings exercises in all flavors and levels. 70% of the book is purely an introduction to the program, background information for you to have a well-prepared start of a first 40-days sequence. For that period a series of recipes and exercises are provided. If you sign-up to the program with a group - the book strongly advises not to do it on your own - you're provided free online resources and an app to support your Daniel Plan. ( )

Encourages a healthy lifestyle where people are encouraged to get healthier by optimizing the 5 key essentials: faith, food, fitness, focus and friends.