Deborah Kesten

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...See more

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. See less