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EPISODE 17 September 03, 2024
Weight-Loss Rx: Eat with Others
Discover scientifically sound insights into the weight-loss and healing power of 'social nourishment' and sharing fare with others.
EPISODE 16 July 30, 2024
Mealtime Emotions and Your Weight
Recent research on the Whole Person Integrative Eating® dietary lifestyle reveals that both the psychological and aesthetic atmospheres while dining, influence your emotions and in turn your weight and well-being. Here’s the research behind the newly discovered overeating style Unappetizing Atmosphere--and its link to mealtime emotions and weight.
EPISODE 15 July 23, 2024
The Healing Power of ‘Savoring Flavors’ in Food
What do “savoring” flavors and “flavoring” food with loving regard have in common? Infusing your food with these two ingredients may lower odds of overeating and increase odds of weight loss.
EPISODE 14 July 16, 2024
A Weight-Loss Secret? An 'Attitude of Gratitude' for Food
If you often worry about the 'best' way to eat. Or you diet a lot or obsess about food and weight, you may be a Food Fretter—the Whole Person Integrative Eating® overeating style linked with overeating and overweight. The antidote? Replace the in-your- head Food Fretting overeating style with appreciating food--from your heart. Here's why. And how to bring an ‘attitude of gratitude’ to food.
EPISODE 13 July 2, 2024
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‘MINDFULNESS EATING' In Action: The WPIE Guided Meal Meditation
What do you get when you merge the ancient Buddhist teaching of mindfulness with food, eating, and modern nutritional science? Answer: A way of eating that leads to easing odds of overeating and weight gain. Welcome to The WPIE Guided Mindfulness Meal Meditation!
EPISODE 12 June 25, 2024
The Weight Loss Power of Mindfulness Eating
(Hint: It’s a Lifetime Practice!)
What do you get when you merge the ancient Buddhist teaching of mindfulness with food, eating, and modern nutritional science? Answer: A way of eating that leads to enjoying food…and easing odds of overeating and weight gain.
EPISODE 11 June 18, 2024
TRANSFORM EMOTIONAL EATING INTO FEEL-GOOD FEELINGS
With These Blues-Busting Foods
For many, negative feelings--such as anxiety and depression--lead to out-of-control emotional eating or binge eating. Understanding the food-mood connection gives us many science-backed insights into foods that can bust the blues and reduce odds of emotional eating episodes. Here, 3 "transformation" strategies, plus some quick-fix, feel-good foods that may help.
EPISODE 10 June 11, 2024
THE WHAT-TO-EAT WPIE FOOD PYRAMID
Lose Weight. Feel Better. Restore Health.
In 1992, the USDA created a food pyramid as a visual guide of basic food groups about what to eat each day for nutritional health. It's not working: Obesity and other diet-related chronic conditions continue to soar. The What-to-Eat WPIE Food Pyramid offers scientifically sound, "real life" insights into optimal eating for weight loss and physical and mental well-being.
EPISODE 9 June 04, 2024
WHAT TO EAT for Weight Loss, Health & Healing
Millions of us struggle with the what-to-eat conundrum for weight loss and well-being. So we go from diet to diet, looking for the magic answer. It's not really a secret. Here are the foods that lead to weight loss. And to preventing--even reversing--many physical and mental ailments.
EPISODE 8 May 28, 2024
The DIET & LIFESTYLE that Prevent & Reverse Chronic Conditions
What do overweight and obesity, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, depression, and anxiety have in common? They are all common, chronic, physical and mental conditions—with which millions struggle—that can be prevented, even reversed, with diet and Lifestyle Medicine.
SPECIAL SERIES: 3 Scientific Breakthroughs to Build Your Body-Mind Health
EPISODE 7 May 21, 2024
#3 Meta-Discoveries: Food, Microbiome & Health
Want Gut Health? Discover the Healing Power of Food.
For decades, excitement and interest in the gut microbiome has grown from the understanding that the trillions of organisms in the gut have the power to transform both your physical and mental health. Here, discover the role that food plays in shaping the microbiome and in turn, wellness or illness.
SPECIAL SERIES: 3 Scientific Breakthroughs to Build Your Body-Mind Health
EPISODE 6 May 14, 2024
#2 Meta-Discovery: Food, Epigenics & Health
Epigenetics: Reset Your Genes—NOW—for Weight Loss & Well-Being
Cutting-edge, 21st century, scientific discoveries reveal that everyday foods you choose have the power to switch off genes that put you at risk for a particular condition. The end result: Increase odds of preventing—even reversing—an ailment with diet. Welcome to the world of Nutritional Epigenetics!
SPECIAL SERIES: 3 Nutrition Breakthroughs to Build Your Body-Mind Health
EPISODE 5 May 07, 2024
#1 Meta-Discovery: Food, Genes & Health
Reclaim Your Health Destiny: Program Your Genes for Wellness. Not Illness.
Twenty-first century scientific breakthroughs about food and health are changing the vision of nutritional wellness. We now know the food you eat is more, much more, than an amalgam of nutrients. It also sends signals to your genes that can reset them for wellness. Or illness. Here’s how it works.
EPISODE 4 April 30, 2024
Lost…Now Found: The Healing Power of the ‘4 Facets of Food’
For millennia, humankind turned to food to nourish physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. Today, modern nutritional science is verifying food is, indeed, a 4-part gift with the power to heal multidimensionally.
EPISODE 3 April 23, 2024
What’s Your Overeating Style? Discover the Root Reasons You Overeat.
In this groundbreaking episode, you’ll discover your personal Overeating Styles—the underlying reasons so many of us overeat and gain weight. Without a doubt, the more you follow each overeating style, the more likely you are to overeat and gain weight. Here are the Overeating Styles. Do you see yourself in any of them?
EPISODE 2 April 16, 2024
The Integrative Eating Dietary Lifestyle for Weight-Loss and Well-Being
Did you know it’s possible to overcome overeating and overweight by tapping into what host, Deborah Kesten, calls a dietary lifestyle—a way of eating our ancestors followed for millennia? In this groundbreaking episode, discover the “7 pillars” of the ancient, time-tested dietary lifestyle for weight loss, health, and healing--that is consistently recommended, today, by scores of scientists…including Deborah.
EPISODE 1 April 9, 2024
WELCOME! Your Roadmap to Eating Less, Weighing Less. Without Dieting.
Be empowered to make a real difference in your weight and well-being! In this first episode of the dynamic and intriguing podcast, “The Healing Secrets of Food Revealed,” host Deborah Kesten translates cutting-edge, 21st century weight-loss research into actions you can take to overcome overeating and overweight.
Special Series
Special Series I Reclaim Your Health Destiny: Program Your Genes for Wellness.
SPECIAL SERIES: #1 of 3 Meta Nutrition Discoveries: Food, Genes, Microbiome & Health
Special Series I Epigenetics: Reset Your Genes —NOW— for Weight Loss & Well-Being
SPECIAL SERIES: #2 of 3 Meta Nutrition Discoveries: Food, Genes, Microbiome & Health
Special Series I Want Gut Health? Discover the Healing Power of Food.
SPECIAL SERIES: #3 of 3 Meta Nutrition Discoveries: Food, Genes, Microbiome & Health