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KC
(kc@kindcafe.com)
Hello, my name is KC. I
am a holistic healer. I am a critical care nurse with a masters degree
in nutrition and have been refining my practice for almost 20 years.
Working for years in the hospital has shown me that health is our only
priceless asset. I help people invest in this asset and create their
own health. After working with Dr. Dean Ornish's program and
witnessing people taking responsibility for their health, I became
interested in self healing. I distilled all that I had learned and
witnessed into a type of food we call
Kind Cuisine. What I've
discovered is that eating kind cuisine and practicing conscious living
unleashes the natural healing powers of the body and allows the body
to move toward its natural state of being well. I first started
getting Kind Cuisine to the public through KC's Chuckwagon Inc, a
mobile kitchen that traveled the east coast serving up the powerful
combination of clean natural foods and natural lifestyle education.
The Chuckwagon has served a diverse crowd of thousands of people
including XPN's Singer Songwriter, The University of Pennsylvania, The
Rodale Institute, Chestnut Hill Hospital, Phish Concerts, The Mind,
Body, Spirit expo and many others. Later, the Institute for Health
Creation Inc. was incorporated to provide personal health creation
coaching, Kind Cuisine Cooking Classes and to produce the seminar,
"Creating Health with Kind Cuisine and Conscious Living…the recipe for
a vibrant life." The Kind Café LLC is the synthesis of my two prior
businesses... it is a place where one can choose from a menu of health
creation ingredients, both food and education, to customize your own
unique health creation recipe.
Karen
With a lifelong passion for food, Karen
Dechter has had many years of experience working as a caterer, pastry
chef, managing a bakery and owning a food business, which included
food gift packaging.
Now, as a cancer survivor, she has changed to an all raw foods diet.
Karen continues her love of baking by using more healthful
ingredients. She wants to help other people by teaching them how to
improve their health by making simple dietary changes.
Dave
(webmaster@kindcafe.com)
Dave is currently working on becoming a
Certified Nutritionist through the American Health Science University
and National Institute of Nutrition Education. He has a B.S. in
Computer Science and designed/maintains the website for the Kind Cafe. Dave
also just completed
a four year residency at the
Institute for
Plant Based Nutrition where he
- Assisted in research of vegan
nutrition related topics.
- Ran the IPBN table at conferences
and events, including Animal Rights 2002, and talked to
people/answered questions about vegan nutrition, veganomics, and
veganocracy.
- Helped with computer issues
including maintaining the member database in Microsoft Access and
training other volunteers in Microsoft Office tools.
- Helped edit the IPBN newsletter,
Plant Based Nutrition.
- Helped organize our landmark
conference in February of 2002, the International Scientific
Conference on Chinese Plant Based Nutrition and Cuisine. Created and
maintained the conference website
http://www.geocities.com/chinatownconference. Led walking tours
of Chinatown in Philadelphia of groups of 20+ people. Created
walking tour map using the software Visio.
Dave has been a vegetarian since 1993, a vegan since 1997,
and was awarded a lifetime membership to the American Vegan Society
in 2002. He
became vegetarian after learning about all the benefits of a plant
based diet, and is now a vegan because of the overwhelming science
behind plant based nutrition, it's environmental impact,
and the ethics of animal welfare. Bill
EHH! My name is Bill. I am also a
healer, but of the mechanical sense. When Kind equipment breaks or
needs attention I do my thing. When I found out that things could burn
me, shock me, take out an eye or tear a limb off I had to know how
they worked. Ever since I took my father's electric drill apart (when
I was just a "little" amazing) to see how it worked though it never
worked again, to having the ability to tune full race engines, I have
loved mechanical and electrical stuff. If it breaks, shorts, smokes or
just plain don't work, I fix it (or try). I too have learned that kind
maintenance to the heart of any chassis and the proper tools can
extend the life of any system and make it run smoother and cleaner. A
clean engine is a happy engine. I am believer in "Kind stuff" (as I
call it) and have seen the proof. Hey I want to lose weight, but I'm
not into pumping iron or running a zillion miles. So I loose it anyhow
with help from KC. I have had great results with what I have learned
from KC and a thinner waist and more energy without having to work
out or drink milk! Some of my favorites are the Kind Cake, Kind
carrot stuff, Kind pumpkin hot drink stuff, Kind fajita stuff, and
Kind seitan steak stuff. I started eating better and I am slowly
"tuning" the most important machine I have ever worked on, me. We need
tuning and maintenance too.
Randi
I'm a graduate of CalPoly Pomona with a
degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a minor in Regenerative
Studies. While attending school in Southern California I lived in a
demonstration intentional community called The Center for Regenerative
Studies, which was housed in a sustainable dorm on campus. Our goal
was to close as many nutrient, waste and energy loops as possible by
growing our own food, recycling all of our wastes and producing our
own energy. The result was a self-sustained, closed loop or
regenerative system. While studying at CalPoly and I learned how
unsustainable and unhealthy our current agricultural food system is.
Petroleum based chemical pesticides and fertilizers, that have
been shown to cause reproductive as well as neurological disorders,
are commonly used. To compound the problem most vegetables are
shipped thousands of miles loosing nutrients all the while. I have
been involved in several urban agriculture projects aimed at helping
cities to decrease their dependence on fruit and vegetables grown
utilizing these harmful means and have learned that there is unlimited
potential for cities to grow healthy fruits and vegetables as well as
healthy communities. The solutions to many of our problems are
only limited to our imaginations. |
