Obese Females, How Can They Reduce Their Shame? - Wellness Coach Deborah Kesten (VIDEO)
Wellness Coach Deborah Kesten describes how women can reduce their shame about being obese.
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Deborah Kesten:
And, it’s so normal to be overweight in this country and to be judged by it in terms of what kind of person you are and how you look, that the whole culture, in my opinion, really would benefit by undergoing a shift. And I say that in terms of the culture and people start thinking in terms of valuing, valuing who we are and what we are eating in terms of real food, not food products, and valuing how you are living your life, and how you are eating, and how you are nourishing yourself with food, and how you are nourishing your family with food, and how you are nourishing your spouse. And it’s always on, very frequently on females to feed themselves and their children and their parents.
And it’s a huge responsibility, and so from my perspective, the key focus is let’s eat optimally, let’s eat fresh delicious food, let’s turn food into a nourishing social, ceremonial, central pleasure rather than focusing on weight, weight, weight, weight on ourselves and on other women especially.
About Deborah Kesten, M.P.H.:
Deborah Kesten, M.P.H., is an international nutrition and lifestyle researcher and educator, with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. She was the nutritionist on Dr. Dean Ornish’s first clinical trial for reversing heart disease through lifestyle changes, and Director of Nutrition on similar research at cardiovascular clinics in Europe. More recently, she has created the pioneering Enlightened Diet, a “whole person” optimal eating and weight loss program, the results of which were published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. With more than 200 published health articles, she is the award-winning author of The Enlightened Diet, Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul and The Healing Secrets of Food, a comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition program about the power of food to heal physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially.
