About Vibrant
Cuisine
Get Healthy, Lose Weight!
 Created
by Chef Robin Jeep, Vibrant Cuisine is a holistic
approach to optimal health based on The Super Antioxidant
Diet and Nutrition Guide. Programs are designed to provide
nutritional education, tools for personal growth, culinary instruction,
physical fitness, healthy social interaction and vibrant cuisine
foods.
The goals of Vibrant Cuisine are:
 to educate
on topics related to health, nutrition, lifestyle and food preparation
to provide
specialized programs and tools for achieving optimal health
to facilitate
a community of learning, support
and social interaction
to encourage
people to eat foods grown locally.
Team
Robin
Jeep
Richard
Couey, PhD
Sherie
Pitman Ellington
Ian
Ashley, MD
Chef
Sergio Garcia
Michelle
Chernoff Simon, M.Ed., MS, LPC, BCIAC
Robin Jeep | Internationally Trained
Chef, Author & Founder of Vibrant Cuisine
Robin Jeep is an internationally trained chef and a former marketing
director for Whole Foods Market. She has prepared healthy, gourmet
cuisine for well-known celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Peter
Max, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Seal.
As a model and a steeplechase jockey trainee in Europe, she discovered
low-calorie and nutrient rich eating. Robin has since seen people
recover from diseases once thought incurable. After years of traveling
and numerous culinary experiences, she settled into a career of
teaching people how to reclaim their health with delicious healthy
cuisine.
Richard Couey, PhD
| Cell Physiologist, Author & Fitness Consultant |
Scientific Advisor
Richard Couey, PhD, is a University health science professor and
author of 25 books on nutrition, physical fitness, wellness, spirituality
and golf. His two most recent books are: Living Longer: The Magic
of Enzymes and Nutrition and The Happy Cell.
Richard was a professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs,
has served as an exercise physiology consultant to the U.S. Olympic
Team, and is a former member of the President's Commission on
Physical Fitness and Sports. He has designed nutrition, fitness,
and weight-loss programs for many professional organizations.
In addition to his full-time career as a professor, he travels
nationally and internationally as a consultant and public speaker
on nutritional science and physical fitness.
Sherie Pitman Ellington | Author,
Consultant
 The
daughter of medical missionaries, Sherie first witnessed the effects
of preventable illness and poor nutrition as a child growing up
in Nigeria. Sherie has worked in marketing communications for
almost 25 years and has also freelanced as a newspaper columnist,
graphic designer, website designer and instructor. She shares
the message of health by maintaining a positive attitude, eating
a nutritious diet and exercising regularly.
She earned her AA in Commercial Art & Advertising from Texas
State Technical College, graduated summa cum laude with a BA from
the University of Texas at Arlington and earned a Masters degree
from San Francisco State University. She is also a graduate of
Economic Development Institute.
Ian Ashley, MD | Board Certified
Physician | Medical Advisor
 After
years of seeing patients seeking treatment for preventable illness,
Emergency Room Physician Ian Ashley, MD, decided to team with
Robin Jeep to develop a more holistic and individual approach
to patient care. His enthusiasm, warm smile and youthful spirit
encourage patients to make the diet and lifestyle changes necessary
for optimal health.
Ian works as a fulltime emergency room physician at Providence
Health Center in Waco and serves as the director of emergency
medicine education for the McLennan County Family Medicine Residency
program. He received his doctorate in medicine from Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston in 1996.
Chef Sergio Garcia | Owner &
Chef, El Siete Mares Restaurant | Culinary Consultant
 Chef
Sergio prepares Robin’s delicious Vibrant Cuisine menu for in-restaurant
dining at El Siete Mares as well as Vibrant Cuisine To Go meals.
He was raised in Veracruz, Mexico, on a super antioxidant diet.His
love for good food led him to the United States where he trained
under the famous Chef Geoffrey Michaels. He opened his own restaurant,
El Siete Mares, ten years ago and word spread quickly.
His delicious cuisine has become well known around the country
and has been requested for President Bush's press corps when Bush
visits Texas. Sergio has been recognized in many publications,
including Texas Monthly.
Ellen Chernoff Simon,
M.Ed., MS, LPC, BCIAC| Board Licensed Psychotherapist |
Psychology Advisor
 Ellen
Chernoff Simon is a board licensed psychotherapist who specializes
in pain management, meditation, medical hypnosis, neurofeedback,
biofeedback and interactive guided imagery. Her guided imagery
programs are currently in use nationwide by insurance and healthcare
providers to help patients manage pain, reduce stress, lower blood
pressure, heal after surgery, quit smoking and lose weight.
Ellen is the founder and president of Imadulation International,
LP, and owns a private practice in Richardson, Texas. She received
her BA from the University of Texas at Austin and two Master degrees
from the University of Memphis in 1980 and 1981. She is married
and the mother of five children.
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