Christian Book Of The Year – The Daniel Plan By Rick Warren
The Daniel Plan: 40 days to a healthier life book is written by the mega-church pastor Rick Warren in association with doctors Mark Hyman and Daniel Amen. The book is a program to become healthier, it incorporates faith, fitness, food, friends and focus into healthier living. According to the authors “If you do not have faith in God to help you get healthy, all you are left with is willpower, and the willpower does not last very long”. Chapter 10 in The Daniel Plan book includes a 40 day meal plan and 53 recipes with the basics of any healthy diet: no gluten, sugar, diary or artificial anything.
At an award ceremony in Tennessee, this book was named the Christian book of the year. The award was announced at the ECPA – Evangelical Christian Publisher Association’s annual banquet. The Christian Book Awards are one of the long-standing and most prestigious in religious publishing. The main author of the book, Rick Warren started the plan in 2011 when he noticed that a lot of people in his congregation are overweight. On its own leadership, nearly 15,000 members of the church took up the challenge and lost over 113,000 kilograms in weight in the first year.
When it was published in 2013, The Daniel Plan book become a New York Times No.1 bestseller and since then, the number of people that are joining this biblical-based drive to eat healthier and get in shape is constantly growing. The book is available in CD and DVD form, fitness gear and an accompanying journal and The Daniel Plan Cookbook. The plan took its name from the biblical story of Daniel who declined to eat the rich food of the Babylonina king in order to honor God.
What makes this book and this program different from other is that The Daniel Plan was created with “love as the motivation”. It is a reflection of the God’s love for people. It is a story of abundance and places an emphasis on working all together as a community to achieve our goals. The book teaches simple ways to incorporate healthy choices into the current lifestyle of the readers and give them a help to understand the kind of foods God create to keep us strong and fit. Unlike the wide range of another book available on the market, The Daniel Plan is not about new diet, shame-driven fasts or guilt-driven gym sessions. The book guides that will help you transform your health forever, changing = you in the most head-turning way from the inside out.
