Whole Person Integrative Eating

Winner of the 2020 Book Excellence Award in the Health Category

A Holistic, Science-Backed Program to Help You Build a Healthier Relationship to Food, Eating and Weight!

Do you suffer from chronic overeating and have concerns about your weight?

Are you looking for a scientifically sound way of eating to prevent, even reverse, food-related chronic conditions, such as obesity, heart disease, depression and more?

Are you ready to treat the root causes of being overweight and pave the way to a happier and healthier relationship to food, eating, and weight?

This book is for you.

Holistic nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten, M.P.H., and behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D., offer documented proof that it is possible to overcome overeating and being overweight by nourishing yourself multi-dimensionally each time you eat. Combining ancient food wisdom with groundbreaking modern science, Whole Person Integrative Eating empowers you to discover the reasons you overeat and gain weight - while offering the Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) antidotes: physical, emotional, spiritual and social nourishment.

Through a powerful self-assessment quiz, you'll identify your overeating styles, then build a personalized plan to create a new, healthy way of eating. Plus, you'll discover 30 delicious recipes based on the Whole Person Integrative Eating program to jumpstart your optimal-eating efforts.

Whole Person Integrative Eating is not a diet you will go on...and then off. It is a scientifically sound dietary lifestyle designed to be practiced for a lifetime. WPIE will inspire you to transform your relationship to food, eating, and weight by empowering you to discover true nourishment-physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-each time you eat...for life.

In this breakthrough book, lifestyle and nutrition researchers Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz offer documented proof that it is possible to overcome overeating, overweight, and obesity by nourishing yourself multidimensionally each time you eat.
Deborah Kesten, M.P.H., is an international nutrition researcher, award-winning author, and medical and health writer, with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. A professional health and wellness coach, she was the nutritionist on Dean Ornish, M.D.'s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease through lifestyle changes- the results of which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association-and Director of Nutrition on similar Lifestyle Medicine research at cardiovascular clinics in Europe. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, San Francisco, for ten years. Deborah is Principal Investigator on research about Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE), her model and program for treating overeating, overweight, and obesity multidimensionally-physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Her research on WPIE has been published in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing and Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal. With more than four hundred published nutrition and health articles, Deborah's comprehensive e-course on Whole Person Integrative Eating was featured in Spirituality & Health magazine, for which she wrote The Enlightened Diet column for two years. Her first book, Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul, received the first- place gold award, in the Spirituality category, from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, while an overview of key Whole Person Integrative Eating concepts is the focus of her book The Healing Secrets of Food. She is currently a VIP Contributor at Thrive Global. Deborah is married to co-author Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D. Website: www.Make- WeightLossLast.com; blog: www.IntegrativeEating.com.
Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, trained in psychophysiology at Harvard Medical School, and in behavioral medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He is an international research scientist who has specialized in mind-body research, Lifestyle Medicine, and evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. His research career includes Director of Research and Co-Principal Investigator with Dean Ornish, M.D. on his heart-disease reversal research, plus research on seven comprehensive Lifestyle Medicine programs with heart patients and their families-four in the United States, three in Europe. Larry's more recent research includes his groundbreaking discovery linking self-involvement to risk of heart attack and death from heart attack, and Co-Principal Investigator on the Whole Person Integrative Eating model and program. Larry has presented his research on self-involvement to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. His research has been published in a plethora of prestigious medical journals, from the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet to Psychosomatic Medicine. Larry is married to co-author Deborah Kesten, M.P.H. Website: www.MakeWeightLossLast.com; blog: www.IntegrativeEating.com.
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and also at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ornish was trained in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. For over forty years, he has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. He also directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. His research showed that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression, turning on disease-preventing genes and turning off genes that promote cancer and heart disease. His research dnd writings have been published in the leading peer-reviewed medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. His work has been featured in all major media, including cover stories in Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report. The Ornish diet has been rated #1 for Heart Health by U.S. News & World Report every year from 2011 through 2018. The author of six books, all national bestsellers, Dr. Ornish was recognized as one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years; by Time magazine as a Time 100 Innovator; and by Life magazine as one of the fifty most influential members of his generation.

"In this landmark book, Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz have conducted, and are reporting revolutionary research proving for the first time, that replacing today's "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

"This evidence-based masterpiece not only educates but gives you an easy, precise strategy to experience sustainable freedom from the ravages of obesity."

--David Reed Miloy, M.D., M.S. founder, Optimum Health: Partners in Wellness, life and wellness coach

"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 millenia. 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