**2020 Book Excellence Award Winner** Finally, a gimmick-free plan for those who are nutritionally confused, suffer with declining health, or flit from one failed diet plan to another. The "Plan A" Diet provides readers with effective, proven strategies to achieve normal weight and regain lost health - without relying on calorie counting, food restriction, or willpower.  Combining her decades-long study of both nutrition and scripture, Cyd Notter founded The "Plan A" Diet to illustrate the correlations between biblical principles and healthy eating, and to encourage readers to take an active role in their health. She demonstrates that a whole food, plant-based diet is not only the optimal strategy for dealing with today's weight problems and chronic ailments, it's proven to be the only diet capable of reversing our #1 killer, heart disease. Readers are also provided with: Useful insights for dealing with resistance to change - Delicious remakes of comfort foods, such as pasta, burgers, and brownies - A 7-day Meal Plan, plus an optional 5-week Transition Plan - Tips for evaluating conflicting dietary information - Prayer, biblical encouragement, and discussion questions Today's unbiased research continually confirms that God's first prescribed diet for mankind - His "Plan A" Diet - remains the ideal food to this day. By choosing this plan for health reasons, you'll reap the incredible benefits that come from living in harmony with your design: permanent weight loss, improved mobility, and clearer thinking, just to name a few. ".......This book not only reviews some of the scientific evidence for the reversal of many chronic diseases, but it combines it with Biblical teaching making it a rare and unique blend in today's market. In the process, this book's unapologetic spiritual transparency empowers its readers to sustain their new lifestyle and to make it a keeper. The results? Better health, clearer minds, lower medical and food bills, greater compassion to animals, a higher ethic, a softer footprint on the earth, and a greater likelihood of planetary survival. May this book have a wide distribution. I am so glad that someone at last wrote it. And did it so exceedingly well. Five stars!" ~ Foreword by Dr. Hans Diehl , DrHSc, MPH, FACN; Clinical Professor Preventive Medicine, School ofMedicine, Loma Linda University. Best-selling author and Founder of the CHIP Program September 2019 Midwest Book Review "Critique: Deftly combining solid information with respect tonutrition with biblical injunctions with respect to acceptable foods for humanconsumption, "The Plan A Diet" is an extraordinary and uniqueapproach to creating and maintaining optimal personal health and well-being.While unreservedly endorsed and recommended for community and academic libraryHealth/Medicine collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that"The Plan A Diet" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle,$8.49)." ~ Susan Bethany, Reviewer Endorsements "I am a devout Christian and a staunch advocate of a whole-food, plant-based diet. I have read many great books on faith and Christianity. I have also read many great books on how and why to eat a whole-food, plant-based diet. The "Plan A"Diet" is one of the rare books that combines both subjects, and does so seamlessly and beautifully. Regardless of your religious background,you will learn a lot from reading this book, but especially for the millions of Christians out there who see their faith and their diet as two completely separate spheres, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK! I am certain that doing so will transform you for the better." ~Anthony Lim, MD, JD Medical Director, The McDougall Program "The "Plan A" Diet by Cyd Notter is a valuable resource for those wanting to learn more about nutrition. As a cardiologist specializing in disease reversal, I plan on having my patients use this as a tool to improve health through better nutrition." ~James L. Marcum, MD, FACC, ACLM, Chattanooga Heart Institute. Speaker/Director of Heartwise Ministries, Author of The Ultimate Prescription, Medicines that Kill, and Biblical Prescriptions for Life "Cyd Notter combines sound nutritional principles with a faith-based approach to healthy living and the result is a great blueprint for changing your life, and helping others to change theirs. This book provides food for the body and for the soul." ~Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., N.D. Founder and President of Wellness Forum Health. Author of Food Over Medicine and Solving America's Healthcare Crisis "The "Plan A" Diet is your ticket to a disease-free life! Cyd Notter gets right to the heart of the obesity and chronic disease epidemic currently sweeping our planet. This book will show you how to adopt a diet and lifestyle plan that actually works. Trade in your monthly trips to the pharmacy for a daily dose of delicious, mouthwatering food aimed to rid your body of debilitati