Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul

Feeding the body, nurishing the soul leads us to experience the same soul in all. Kesten brilliantly looks at how we all have the same basic need for feeding and maintaining the body, yet express it so differently. By following the different rituals page by page, she leads us to communion with our own soul and then unties us, though our differences. I use this book to envision blessing my food and seeing it though the eyes of other cultures and it has been eye opening. Thank you for writing about this most important topic.

From FEEDING THE BODY, NOURISHING THE SOUL emerges a description of nutrition as a spiritual art. I found it to be a thought-provoking challenge of our current notions about health and nutrition. This is because it explores the crossroads of spirituality and food...a path to true nourishment. Drawing on sources as seemingly diverse as yogic nutrition, food and mood, Christian communion, and ancient Jewish and Native American dietary practices, as well as on her own extensive observation and research, the author restores our rightful relationship to food. This book has forever changed the way I eat and think about food.

Deborah Kesten has restored my faith in books about nutrition. Normally, I can't read anything about "diet." All that info about carbs, proteins and fats being good one day, bad the next, make my head explode. Deborah Kesten's approach is like a good friend, who sees you're confused, sits you down, and gently guides you back to clarity--and she does it with grace and a committment to feeding the spirit as well. She makes eating not only safe again but a true delight.

Over the years, I've read a lot about the influence that thoughts and feelings have on health and well-being. FEEDING THE BODY, NOURISHING THE SOUL is especially unique in that it explores new nutrition territory: the link between thoughts, feelings, and food. Because the book isn't a quick fix, not only did I find myself slowing down in order to "get" what the author was writing about, over time, I also realized that I was seeing and appreciating food in a new way. For me, this book has been an extraordinary journey.

This is an extraordinary book that changed the way I see food and its role in my life. I'm fascinated about the subject of food, nutrition, and diets, but I've never read anything like this book before. More and more, after reading it, I've been able to let go of a diet mentality, and instead, actually begin to enjoy food.Feeding the Body... is filled with incredible insights about food that most of us no longer acknowledge or are aware of. A word of warning: This book isn't a "quick fix," nor is it an "easy read." Being able to benefit from its abundant wisdom asks that you take the time to read it carefully while considering its insights--in the same way you might mull over poetry. For me, this has been an exception read, and a wonderful food journey I will always remember.