The Healing Secrets of Food Revealed
With Deborah Kesten
Scienced-Backed
Weight-Loss Wisdom
Latest Episode
EPISODE 18
| July 19, 2026
Reclaim Your Health Destiny!
Eating well is about more—much more—than weight.Weight matters. But it’s just one piece of the food-health puzzle. What you eat also shapes long-term wellness. Or illness. And mental health—regardless of the number on the scale. Discover how to reshape both your weight and health destiny with the food choices you make each day.
Recent Episodes
EPISODE 17
| September 3, 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
FREE AUDIO ‘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.
HOST, DEBORAH KESTEN
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The Healing Secrets of Food Revealed
The groundbreaking ‘Healing Secrets of Food Revealed’ podcast unveils tips, tools, stories, and strategies you can use—now, today—to eat less and weigh less. Without dieting.
Based on over 25 years of research by host Deborah Kesten, you’ll discover how overeating, overweight, and obesity may be halted, even reversed, by replacing Deborah’s newly identified, underlying reasons you overeat, with the antidotes: the ancient/new elements of her scientifically sound Whole Person Integrative Eating® program.
In each episode, you’ll discover practical, in-action steps that lead to weight loss and well-being…for the long-term. By giving listeners actionable insights into 21st century scientific discoveries, Deborah provides a clear path to eating less and weighing less. This dynamic and intriguing podcast empowers you with science-backed steps for weight loss success.
