Title: The WHOLE PERSON INTEGRATIVE EATING® Dietary Lifestyle and Program

Biography:

Deborah Kesten, MPH, is an international nutrition researcher and award-winning author, specializing in preventing and reversing obesity, heart disease, and other diet-related chronic conditions. She was Nutritionist on Dean Ornish, MD’s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease, and Director of Nutrition on similar Lifestyle Medicine research at cardiovascular clinics in Europe. Deborah is Principle Investigator and Founder of Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE)^®, an evidence-based, scientifically sound program for halting, even reversing overeating, overweight, and obesity.
Deborah’s work has been featured in Health, Yoga Journal, and Spirituality & Health, for which she wrote “The Enlightened Diet” column, while her books discuss the multidimensional power of food to heal. A VIP Contributor at Arianna Huffington’s ThriveGlobal.com, Deborah’s most recent book is the award-winning Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity.
Deborah Kesten, MPH, is an international nutrition researcher and award-winning author, specializing in preventing and reversing obesity, heart disease, and other diet-related chronic conditions. She was Nutritionist on Dean Ornish, MD’s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease, and Director of Nutrition on similar Lifestyle Medicine research at cardiovascular clinics in Europe. Deborah is the Principle Investigator and Founder of Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE)^®, an evidence-based, scientifically sound program for halting, even reversing overeating, overweight, and obesity.
Deborah’s work has been featured in Health, Yoga Journal, and Spirituality & Health, for which she wrote “The Enlightened Diet” column, while her books discuss the multidimensional power of food to heal. A VIP Contributor at Arianna Huffington’s ThriveGlobal.com, Deborah’s most recent book is the award-winning Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity.

Abstract

Over 25 years of research by nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten, MPH, and behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D., reveals that overeating, overweight, and obesity may be halted, even reversed, by replacing the statistically sound, new-normal overeating styles they have identified, with the perennial ancient food wisdom of their science-backed Whole Person Integrative Eating^® (WPIE) dietary lifestyle, model, and program.
Throughout the presentation, Deborah will distill Whole Person Integrative Eating^® into seven simple, yet powerful principles—for eating less, weighing less, and enjoying food more—by nourishing yourself physically, but also emotionally, spiritually, and socially (ergo, ‘whole person integrative eating). You will discover: (1) overeating styles that strongly predict overeating and weight gain; (2) ancient nutrition themes that are the antidotes to the WPIE overeating styles and overweight; (3) and the Four Facets of Food, which comprise the foundation of the Whole Person Integrative Eating^® program for eating less and weighing less. Without dieting.
You will come away with step-by-step WPIE tools and techniques for halting, even reversing the #1 health pandemics of overweight and obesity. And insights into the paradigm-shifting ‘whole person’ nutrition program that can build bridges between the medical community, and the millions who struggle with overeating, weight issues, and other diet-related chronic conditions.