Deborah Kesten M.P.H - Whole Person Integrative Eating: : A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity

Advance Praise for Whole Person Integrative Eating

In this landmark book, Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz have conducted, and are reporting revolutionary research proving for the first time, that replacing todays new normal overeating styles with their evidence-based Whole Person Integrative Eating program is a safe, scientifically sound step toward overcoming overeating and a lifetime struggle with weight. If people follow the revolutionary program outlined in this game-changing, insightful book, it may be the most helpful step they can take toward losing weight and keeping it off.

Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D.,

Clinical Professor of Medicine,

University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco;

author of Change Your Genes, Change Your Life

Whole Person Integrative Eating is a masterful, holistic, integrative, and scientifically sound roadmap for overcoming overeating, overweight, and obesity. Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz have written a breakthrough, evidence-based book that provides a clear guide for losing weight and keeping it off. Their practical science-backed advice will help the millions who struggle with weight issues. It ought to be mandatory reading in educational institutions. This is a must read.

Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D.,

Dean, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University;

President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at Institute of Noetic Sciences

Whole Person Integrative Eating is not only a fascinating guide to choosing foods for health. It is a step-by-step plan to revolutionize your health.

Neal D. Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., President,

Physicians Committee for

Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C.

As an endocrinologist and nutrition expert, I have reviewed numerous scientific and consumer publications regarding diet and nutrition. I have had major concerns that little attention has been paid to the emotional and lifestyle factors that influence the way we eat as well as what we eat. Whole Person Integrative Eating is a brilliant discourse on the root causes of overeating and ensuing weight gain that fills this gap. Authors Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz provide both scientific and realistic analyses of these issues, while offering practical, substantive, scientifically sound therapeutic suggestions. This excellent and unique book should be read widely by both health professionals and consumers.

Leonard A. Wisneski, M.D., F.A.C.P.,

fellow, American College of Nutrition;

chair, Integrative Health Policy Consortium;

faculty, Georgetown University, George Washington University,

University of Colorado

With Whole Person Integrative Eating, authors Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz deliver a profoundly empowering program for losing weight and keeping it off. This evidence-based masterpiece not only educates but gives you an easy, precise strategy to experience sustainable freedom from the ravages of obesity. You will discover 1) insights and tools to diagnose why you overeat; 2) the treatment (cure) to your style(s) of overeating; 3) and deeper awareness and connection to the meaning of food and your own humanity. As an Internal Medicine physician with over two decades of experience in treating obesity, I am recommending this work to my patients without reservation.

David Reed Miloy, M.D., M.S.,

founder, Optimum Health: Partners in Wellness;

life and wellness coach

The program in Whole Person Integrative Eating is unique in that it brings consciousness to the experience of food and eating like no other approach. I know the Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) program is effective, because I have applied it to patients with type 2 diabetes. My research revealed that the how components of WPIE (such as positive emotions, mindfulness, gratitude, etc.) were even more powerful determinants of lowering blood sugar levels than what participants ate. Whole Person Integrative Eating is a paradigm-changing program that takes the concept of nutritional health to a new level. With a deeper sense of personal nourishment, I believe it could help many overcome overeating, obesity, and other diet-related conditions.

Ryan Bradley, N.D., M.P.H.,

Director of Research & Professor of Nutrition,

National University of Natural Medicine;

Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of California at San Diego

This book will change your life. It is a personal guide to food wisdom that explains what to eat, how to eat, and why based on modern nutritional science and ancient food traditions that served us well for millennia. The authors unpack overeating and becoming overweight with remarkable clarity, sensitivity, and intelligence. In short, it is the most potent prescription available for healthful eating as a lifestyle choice.

Peter Boland, Ph.D., President, Boland Healthcare;

visiting scholar, University of California at Berkeley

Whole Person Integrative Eating is about much more than food, eating, and weight. I experienced the power of Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) in my medical practice when I conducted research on WPIE with diabetic patients. When they applied the seven root causes of overeating that authors Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz have identified, they were transformed. Confusing, conflicted relationships with food and eating become joyful again, and emotional and physical healing occurred. Overeating and obesity simply resolved as side effects of practicing Whole Person Integrative Eating, and turning to food to cope with unpleasant emotions was replaced with peace and self-compassion. This book shines a light on the path of self-discovery and healing.

Erica Oberg, N.D., M.P.H.,

Naturopathic Doctor, Guarneri Integrative Health;

research scientist with more than 30 peer-reviewed published articles

The flurry of recommendations for attaining and maintaining weight loss has for decades resembled an out-of-control food fighta blizzard of competing, contrary advice that leaves people disappointed and demoralized. What a pleasure to see this science-based approach of Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz. The program in Whole Person Integrative Eating honors all we arenot simply mindless eating machines, but many-faceted individuals whose physical, mental-emotional, social, cultural, historical, and spiritual characteristics play key roles in every aspect of food choice, consumption, metabolism, and health. Too complicated? Not really. Kesten and Scherwitz will lead you on a path that will leave you joyful, for two major reasons: this process feels good, and it works.

Larry Dossey, M.D.,

author, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness

and Why It Matters

Because most chronic conditions are rooted in poor food choices, Whole Person Integrative Eating fills an important need: It provides a scientifically sound, unique, and enjoyable way to eat optimally, inspired by ancient food wisdom from great cultures and civilizations worldwide. Based on the authors original research, Whole Person Integrative Eating presents a clear, step-by-step path to go from a way of eating that damages both our health and the health of our planet, to a relationship to food and eating that leads to overcoming overeating, overweight, and obesity. Highly recommended.

Jean-Marc Fullsack,

Executive Chef/Instructor,

University of San Francisco School of Management;

Walter Reed Medal for Outstanding Performance,

Walter Reed Medical Center

In Whole Person Integrative Eating, authors Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz provide a research-based framework that is essential to understanding eating behaviors and the keys to optimal nourishment of the body and soul. This book broadens traditional views on weight management by taking a whole person approach. It is a must-read for those interested in how food and eating help to achieve and maintain well-being.