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Those who know me also know that my wife, Gracie Cavnar, founded Recipe for Success, a school based effort to combat childhood through teaching school kids proper nutrition and making the right choices, as well as growing and preparing their own food.  When she began the concept, she enlisted the help of Houston based chefs to volunteer their time to teach cooking in the schools.  Since, the program has become the largest program of its...

Guest-blogged by Gracie Cavnar.  Original piece appeared on the Houston Chronicle opinion page today, February 21, 2010:First lady Michelle Obama recently announced her sweeping national initiative to combat childhood obesity. For the first time since this epidemic emerged, a comprehensive federal effort will coordinate with nonprofit organizations and the private sector to address the broad spectrum of contributing factors to obesity that together threaten generations of Americans with chronic disease and early death. It's not...