Deborah Kesten
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. Deborah’s accomplishments include Your Whole Person Nutrition Program, a comprehensive approach to optimal eating (offered on her Web site at www.Enlightened-Diet.com), contributing articles to scientific books and medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, and to magazines such as Yoga Journal and Spirituality and Health. She lives in Washington with her husband Larry Scherwitz, PhD, co-author of The Enlightened Diet. Both Deborah and Larry are EmpowHer.com providers, experts and writers.
