Help clients and patients
eat well, weigh less, enhance health
Most of us know diets don’t work.
Throughout Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating®, you’ll gain the science-backed knowledge, skills, and practical strategies to help clients and patients improve the food choices and eating behaviors linked to overeating, overweight, and obesity.
So they can eat well, weigh less, and enhance their health. Without dieting.
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.
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 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 principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating was strongly associated with eating less and weighing less.
Without dieting.
RESEARCH
Whole Person Integrative Eating®
✓ 25+ years of research
✓ 5,256 participants medical journals.
✓ Published in peer-reviewed journals
JOURNALS
Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing
Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal
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.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✓ Lectures
✓ Book chapters
✓ Research papers
✓ WPIE articles
✓ Experientials exercises
✓ Journal practices
✓ Practice quiz questions
✓ Final quiz
✓ Certificate of completion
Each Module: 6 Components
Each of the 20 modules includes six components that deliver didactic, practical, and experiential knowledge of the Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle — each one designed to create behavior change.
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.
Deborah Kesten, MPH
Nutrition Researcher I Author I Educator
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Larry Scherwitz, PhD
Behavioral Scientist I Sr. Research Scientist
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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 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 — you want a sustainable way of eating, designed for everyday life.
- Want insight into why you overeat — you want to identify and address the emotional, behavioral, and environmental drivers of eating, not just what to eat.
- Guide others toward a healthy relationship with food — you’re a health or wellness professional seeking evidence-based tools to help clients understand why they overeat, and replace overeating styles with WPIE principles.
What WPIE Isn't
Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certificate Course is not for you if you’re looking for another quick fix.
Rather, WPIE is a science-backed dietary lifestyle grounded in two discoveries:
✓ 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 transforming your relationship with food and eating, WPIE offers a path to lasting change — one meal at a time.
Your Path to Optimal Eating
Eat Well. Weigh Less. Enhance Health.
The Foundations of Whole Person Integrative Eating Certificate Course gives you a clear, science-backed path to the root reasons we overeat and gain weight — and their antidotes: the principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating.
Unlike traditional diets built on rules and restriction, WPIE is a 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.
May you always be nourished,
