Today about 1 in 3 children (ages 2-19) in the United States are already overweight or obese.  Obese & overweight children are at risk for serious health problems like type 2 diabetes, asthma and heart failure. Extra weight can make it harder to breathe and can inflame the respiratory tract. Also, being overweight or out of shape makes the heart work harder. This breaks my heart to hear that children are suffering, and WE can do something to change this. How can reverse this trend?  Health and nutrition starts at home. Make sure your children are eating five or more servings of fruit and green vegetables. There are great cookbooks…

With Cupcake Camp Dallas less than a week away, I think it’s fitting for me to share my top 5 cupcake bakeries found courtesy of Bizzy, a local business recommendation website & mobile app based on the favorite places of people like you. To test the strength, accuracy and reliability of Bizzy recommendations, they created “Top Secret Mission #1: Cupcakes.”Mission: Use Bizzy to identify your Top 5 recommendations for cupcakes. Further identify the best recommendation based on the quality of the cupcakes available at those five venues. Details: Cupcake quality is to be determined by this specific methodology. Obtain one “specialty of the house” cupcake from each bakery. Observe and document the aesthetic beauty of each cupcake.…