Help clients and patients
eat well, weigh less, enhance health
Most of us know diets don’t work.
THE WPIE PROGRAM
4 facets of food
The paradigm-shifting, well-researched foundation of Whole Person Integrative Eating (WPIE) is that food is a 4-part gift. It has the power to:
FACET 1: Enhance physical health (Biological Nutrition)
FACET 2: Balance emotions (Psychological Nutrition)
FACET 3: Satisfy the soul (Spiritual Nutrition)
FACET 4: Connect us with others (Social Nutrition)
The WPIE program tells us that when we eat with awareness of the 4 facets of food––and put them into practice––it leads to eating less and weighing less. Without dieting.
ENHANCE HEALTH
Biological
Nutrition:
Fresh, whole foods—which are abundant in vitamins, minerals, and other health-enhancing nutrients—support physical health and healing.
BALANCE EMOTIONS
Psychological
Nutrition:
Research reveals everyday food choices can promote emotional well-being—or, conversely, increase odds of depression and anxiety.
CULTIVATE MEANING
Spiritual
Nutrition:
WPIE research and other studies link eating with mindfulness, gratitude, and loving regard to eating less and weighing less.
CREATE CONNECTION
Social
Nutrition:
WPIE research and international studies connect Solo Dining with overeating, fast food, and obesity, while shared meals are linked to eating less and weighing less.
THE RESEARCH
7 overeating styles. 7 antidotes.
The research behind
Whole Person Integrative Eating
We’ve discovered today’s 7 new-normal overeating styles
that are strongly linked to overeating and weight gain.
And their antidotes:
The 7 pillars of Whole Person Integrative Eating
Replacing today’s new-normal overeating styles with the 7 pillars of Whole Person Integrative Eating was strongly associated with eating less and weighing less.
Without dieting.
COURSE CONCEPTS
A path to optimal eating
Each science-backed module of the Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certificate Course supports eating well, weighing less, and enhancing health.
Without dieting.
INSIDE THE COURSE
From research to practice
You’ll have on-demand access to the tools you need to put
Whole Person Integrative Eating into practice.
Move through the course at your own pace, on your own time.
Each module: 6 components
Meet your instructors
Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating®
CERTIFICATE COURSE
Nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten MPH, and behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, PhD
—founders of Whole Person Integrative Eating—lead you through the course.
Graduates Speak
❝ The WPIE program...
provides a holistic and multidimensional approach to help clients change their entire relationship with food and eating and adopt lifelong behavior change.
❝ I wanted to take the WPIE course to…help my clients… lose weight and break free from emotional eating. I am eager to introduce them to the WPIE self-assessment quiz and 7 antidotes to overeating.
❝ This is first program that I have done that addresses the whole person (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually), which is absolutely essential for creating and sustaining healthy living practices for a lifetime!”
Is This Course Right for You?
It may be a good fit if you:
- Are ready to move beyond dieting—to a sustainable way of eating, designed for everyday life, that helps you eat well, weigh less, and enhance health.
- Want insights into why you overeat—not just what you eat—and to identify and address the emotional, behavioral, and environmental drivers behind it.
- Guide others toward a healthy relationship with food—as a health or wellness professional seeking evidence-based tools to help clients understand why they overeat, and then replace their overeating styles with the 7 pillars of WPIE.
Why this course may not be a good fit:
WPIE is a science-backed dietary lifestyle grounded in two steps:
- Identifying your personal root causes of overeating
- Replacing them with the WPIE food choices and eating behaviors that support eating less and weighing less. Without dieting.
- By helping you transform your relationship with food and eating, WPIE offers a path to sustainable change. One meal at a time.
Eat Well. Weigh Less. Enhance Health.
The Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certificate Course gives you a clear, science-backed roadmap to understanding the root reasons we overeat and gain weight—and their antidotes: the 7 pillars of Whole Person Integrative Eating.
Unlike traditional diets built on rules and restriction, WPIE is a sustainable dietary lifestyle you can return to—and practice—each time you eat.
So you can help clients and patients eat well, weigh less, and enhance health.
One meal at a time.
