20th Anniversary Edition Winner, 1998 Independent Publisher Book Awards Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul teaches you how to focus your attention and prepare food so that you are nourished on multiple dimensions each time you eat. Before 20th century nutritional science, when seeking guidelines on what and how to eat, humankind turned to world religions, cultural traditions, and Eastern healing systems. Nutrition researcher Deborah Kesten re-introduces us to this ancient food wisdom from the world's predominant faiths (including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). She also explores regional traditions (including yogic nutrition, Japanese tea ceremonies, Native American fasting, and African-American soul food). Lastly, she explores cutting-edge scientific studies on the life-giving properties of food. By identifying a remarkable unity and common vision around eating, Kesten leads us back to a deeper, more meaningful, and spiritually-oriented relationship to food.

Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul

Kesten, Deborah

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

White River Press

Feeding the Body Nourishing the Soul: Essentials of Eating for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

Conari Pr

Eating fulfills more than physical needs, which might be why one is inclined to gorge on fatty foods when feeling tired or depressed. Deborah Kesten believes that well-being is affected not only by different types of food but also by varied ways of preparing and eating meals. Kesten encourages the reader to take a multidimensional approach to food. Combining scientific facts with traditional food practices from around the globe, Kesten provides ways to benefit from the six healing secrets of food — socializing, feelings, mindfulness, appreciation, connection, and healthy eating.

The Healing Secrets of Food: A Practical Guide for Nourishing Body, Mind, and Soul

Ornish, Dean

Alternative Medicine

New World Library

A RE-VISIONING OF NUTRITIONAL HEALTH
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. They reveal how overeating may be halted, even reversed, by replacing their newly identified overeating styles with the antidotes: the ancient/new elements of their Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle described in this book.
The authors' paradigm-shifting, well-researched message in Whole Person Integrative Eating is that food influences not only the physical dimensions of health, but also our emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. Their scientifically sound dietary lifestyle can build bridges between the millions who struggle with overeating and weight issues and the medical community. And it can inspire you to re-envision your relationship to food, eating, and weight, so that each time you eat, you are nourished...for life.

Whole Person Integrative Eating: A Breakthrough Dietary Lifestyle to Treat the Root Causes of Overeating, Overweight, and Obesity

Scherwitz, Larry

It's been called a "new paradigm" and "the medicine of the future." At the same time, it is so profoundly changing our understanding of health and healing, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has poured $190 million into it. What's the brouhaha about? The emerging new science of epigenetics, which reveals the foods you eat switch genes on or off that can lead either to wellness or illness. But this "medicine of the future" does even more, for it provides a crystal ball not only into your potential health, but also that of your children, even unborn generations. Be assured: the age of nutritional epigenetics has arrived. Pottenger's Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness reveals the foods that launch your genes on a path toward illness, as well as the diet that can activate "health" genes-often instantly-that promote a longer, healthier life. Regardless of your current health status, Pottenger's Prophecy is the source for anyone who wants to eat to reset genes-NOW-for health, healing, and longevity. Read it and discover the food and nutrition secrets you and your offspring need to live up to your epigenetic health potential...for life. More than 425 references.

Pottenger's Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

Graham, Gray

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Kesten, Deborah. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Kesten, Deborah