Kasia Kines

Kasia grew up in a Polish resort town on the Baltic Sea famous for its mineral water, hydrotherapy, mud peat therapy, and doctors' recommended walks on the sandy beach for the iodine-rich air. It was an environment where natural medicine was a welcome addition to a healthy lifestyle. Since age 6, she was excessively "interested in" sugar, which contributed to many health problems later on. After moving to the USA, she became increasingly alarmed with food politics, food industry, disease and obesity. She felt compelled to do something about it and train to help people with their health. As a result, Kasia left a successful teaching career of 18 years to pursue Master's of Science in Nutrition, Clinical Track, at Bastyr University, Kenmore WA, near Seattle, which offered the best graduate clinical nutrition program in the country. The rigorous cutting-edge training combined the latest scientific research and the philosophy of whole foods. Bastyr University is also respected around the world as a pioneer of naturopathic medicine. While at Bastyr, Kasia was exposed to the naturopathic approach to health and disease and to a team approach to patient care. As part of the counseling track, Kasia was a Student Clinician for a year at Bastyr Center for Natural Health in Seattle, a clinic for a local community run by naturopathic, acupuncture and nutrition student clinicians. Kasia began to build her nutrition practice as Certified Nutritionist in Seattle but in 2006 decided to settle down in Maryland to be closer to her and her husband's families. She lives with her loving husband, their apple-head Siamese cat, African gray parrot, a family of wild local rabbits, 5 wild squirrels and countless visiting birds.