Ancient Food Wisdom & Modern Nutritional Science

This episode is about overcoming overeating, overweight, and obesity by nourishing yourself physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially each time you eat.

Valeria Teles interviews Deborah Kesten who explains how the Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) dietary lifestyle can help you transform your relationship with food and eating and in turn help you attain and maintain weight loss.

The Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle is about discovering what to eat to attain and maintain weight loss but also how to eat based on ancient food wisdom and insights from modern nutritional science: with positive feelings, mindfulness, gratitude, loving regard, and social connection.

Deborah will tell you about some studies that have revealed these more invisible "ingredients" of the program may be more powerful determinants of your weight and well-being than what you eat.

Physically, the dietary lifestyle we tell you about in Whole Person Integrative Eating can help you choose optimal foods so you can begin to lose weight. Emotionally, it can help you to minimize and release negative emotions (such as anxiety and anger) when you eat and instead enjoy food filled with positive feelings (such as contentment and joy). Spiritually, it can help you to connect to your inner self by relating to food with mindfulness, gratitude, and love. And socially, it can help you to rediscover the healing power of dining with others as often as possible.

Deborah Kesten, M.P.H. is an international nutritional researcher, award-winning author, and medical and health writer with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. Author of the award-winning Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul and The Healing Secrets of Food, Deborah currently is a VIP Contributor to Thriveglobal.com. Her new book is "Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight and Obesity."

To learn more about Deborah Kesten, please visit her website http://www.IntegrativeEating.com

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** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.