Pastor Rick Warren joined forces with Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman to write "The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life," inspired by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report revealing nearly half of all Americans suffer from obesity. Warren and co-authors Amen and Hyman discuss with the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts how 15,000 members of Warren's Saddleback Church lost a combined total of a quarter million pounds, as well as key elements of their faith-based weight loss plan.
"The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life," by Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Mark Hyman
Pastor Rick Warren teamed up with Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman to create “The Daniel Plan.” Instead of just focusing on food and exercise, this diet book aims to look at the emotional, spiritual and mental reasons that contribute to bad eating habits. By holding people accountable for their own health and encouraging them to work with others to make changes, the diet tries to get participants to commit to their lifestyle goals.
“That’s what we found -- people that actually did the program together lost twice as much weight as people who did it alone,” Warren told CBS This Morning[1] . “It was the power of the community. The community was the medicine ... It’s powerful to show how they can help each other. They shop together. They cook together, ate together. They exercised together and that accountability - the love factor was what helped people change. ” It’s been shown to work: More than 15,000 church members have lost a total of over 250,000 pounds by sticking to these guidelines, according to Warren.
(Release date: Dec. 3, 2013, Zondervan)
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