The Daniel Plan Jumpstart Guide provides a birds-eye view of getting your life on track to better health in five key areas: Faith, Food, Fitness, Focus, and Friends being the secret to a healthy lifestyle. This quick guide provides all the key principles for readers to gain a vision for health and get started. This booklet is a 40-day guide that breaks out existing content from The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life into day-by-day action toward a healthier life and encourages readers to use The Daniel Plan and its compatible journal for more information and further success. A Time magazine cover article named Rick Warren the most influential spiritual leader in America and one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Tens of millions of copies of Pastor Rick’s books have been published in 200 languages. His best-known books, The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church , were named three times in national surveys of pastors (by Gallup, Barna, and Lifeway) as the two most helpful books in print. Rick and his wife, Kay, founded Saddleback Church, the Purpose Driven Network, the PEACE Plan, and Hope for Mental Health. He is the cofounder of Celebrate Recovery with John Baker. Pastor Rick has spoken in 165 nations. He has spoken at the United Nations, US Congress, numerous parliaments, the World Economic Forum, TED, Aspen Institute, and lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and other universities. Rick is executive director of Finishing the Task, a global movement of denominations, organizations, churches, and individuals working together on the Great Commission goals of ensuring that everyone everywhere has access to a Bible, a believer, and a local body of Christ. Daniel Amen, M.D. The Washington Post called Daniel Amen, M.D. the most popular psychiatrist in America. He is a physician, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and twelve-time New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Amen is widely regarded as a gifted teacher and storyteller. His public television programs about the brain have aired 160,000 times across North America. Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics with eleven clinics nationwide. He lives in Newport Beach, California, and has six children and five grandchildren. Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, a six-time No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator and advocate in his field of Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post and a regular medical contributor on Katie Couric’s TV show, “Katie.” For more information, visit http://www.danielplan.com/. The Daniel Plan Jumpstart Guide The Daniel Plan By Rick Warren D. Min, Daniel Amen, Mark Hyman ZONDERVAN Copyright © 2014 The Daniel Plan All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-310-34165-9 CHAPTER 1 Day 1 The Five Essentials Each of us is in a different place with our health, but the Essentials — Faith, Food, Fitness, Focus, and Friends — will hold up your life, enliven your body, enrich your mind, and fill your heart. FAITH Health comes from recognizing and using God's power in your life and treating your body and mind with the care that he intended. When you learn to rely on God's power, you have the key to lasting change. Spiritual health gives you a foundation for building habits and perspectives for health in any area. FOOD You can actually eat anything based on one rule: Eat real, whole food. Eat a colorful variety of real, whole foods from real ingredients that you can make yourself — or that are made by another human nearby. If it was grown on a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, leave it on the shelf. Simple, real, fresh, delicious, nutrient-packed foods that are easy to cook, foods that come from a farmer's field not a factory, foods that traveled the shortest distance from the field to your fork — that is what we should eat. A chicken, a vegetable, a bean, a nut, a grain, a fruit, an egg. Everything else is fake food that depletes energy and health. Real food heals and nourishes. So eat real, whole foods made by God. FITNESS Your body is designed to move and become Daniel Strong. What images come to mind when you think of the word strong ? Do you think of the prophet Daniel? Daniel possessed strength that went well beyond the size of his muscles. Daniel Strong = A pursuit of excellence in body, mind, and spirit for God's glory. Before you even start a fitness plan, the key to success is to choose activities you enjoy doing. Take the Daniel Strong Challenge to improve your fitness, combining prayerful movements, loosening breaks, active games and aerobic activity, and youthful strength training into your life, and watch what happens! We encourage you to do the fitness challenge for 40 days to change your fitness habits. To begin — even if you have