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Gracie Cavnar
Founder of Recipe for Success
In Living Smart, Cavnar shows us how to combat childhood obesity by changing the way our children eat.
 Gracie CavnarContact Information
Phone: (713) 307-7005
Fax: (713) 307-7015
Website: http://www.recipe4success.org/
Email: info@recipe4success.org
By Mail: 1401 McKinney, Suite 925, Houston, TX 77010
Biography
Gracie Cavnar was born and raised in San Antonio Texas, and worked as a fashion model in Texas, New York and California. She attended The University of Texas in Architecture/Graphic design and worked as a residential and commercial architect for ten years. Cavnar’s career shifted next to marketing and sales for the Meridian and Mandarin Hotel groups. She later began producing special events and fundraisers with the Houston Mayor’s office and the Houston Read Commission, and for corporations such as Xerox and Browning Ferris Industries. In the early 1990’s, Cavnar became co-owner and vice president of ProHotel International, a company that provided hospitality clients with marketing, promotions and public relations services. Within a few years, she became President and owner of Cavnar Companies, a business that offered services similar to ProHotel. Today Cavnar works to combat childhood obesity through a program she founded called Recipe for Success. She is married to energy executive Robert Cavnar and lives in Houston, Texas.
“Kids don’t like to be preached to. They love sugar. We can introduce sweet things to them in healthy ways, through fruit and through… even molasses is healthier than corn syrup, and all of these things. So we can show them how to have their cake and eat it too, so to speak.”
-- Gracie Cavnar
Related Websites
- Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/obesity.html
This website from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides information on a range of obesity-related topics including overviews, treatment, prevention and screening tools, as well as research and clinical trials.
- Action for Healthy Kids
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/index.php
1-800-416-5136
This organization is a public-private partnership of national organizations and governmental agencies that have programs addressing childhood obesity. Go to their website to see what the teams in your state are doing. This site also has a variety of resources to improve school nutrition and physical fitness programs.
- Kids Nutrition
http://www.kidsnutrition.org/
(713) 798-4710
This site from the USDA/Agricultural Research Service’s Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine has news articles on nutrition and health, information on joining a study, and Nutrition on the Web a series of resource and “hot topic” links.
- Childhood Obesity - American Obesity Association
http://www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/
(202) 776-7711
This page from the American Obesity Association contains information on prevalence and identification of obesity in children, causes, prevention, health risks and treatment.
- It’s Childs Play Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7536.cfm
(650) 854-9400
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has concluded a comprehensive analysis on the nature and scope of online food marketing to children. Their report shows that approximately 85% of the top food brands that target children using TV marketing also use branded websites to reach children online.
- Overweight and Obesity Resources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/resources.htm
1-800-311-3435
This page is packed with links to resources on weight, nutrition and health, weight loss and maintenance, education and research, as well as specific information on childhood overweight and obesity topics.
- The Wellness Outreach Foundation
www.wellnessoutreach.com
Books And Publications
- Chew on This: Everything you Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food
-- Eric Schlosser
- Fast Food Nation
-- Eric Schlosser
- Fat Land
-- Greg Critser
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
-- Marion Nestle
- The Healthy Start Kids’ Cookbook: Fun and Healthful Recipes that Kids can Make Themselves.
-- Sandra K. Nissenberg
- Healthy Foods: An Irreverent Guide to Understanding Nutrition and Feeding Your Family Well
-- Leanne Ely
- Healthy Treats and Super Snacks for Kids
-- Penny Warner
- How to Teach Nutrition to Kids
-- Connie Liakos Evers
- Dig, Plant Grow: A Kid’s Guide to Gardening
-- Felder Rushing
- Dinner from Dirt: Ten Meals Kids Can Grow and Cook
-- Emily Scott and Catherine Duffy
Quotes
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
-- William Londen
“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
-- Humboldt
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
-- Ben Franklin
“To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party”
--Adelle Davis
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