Synopsis
Mitch Spinach seems to be an ordinary kid, but his classmates have begun to suspect something. The notes in his custom-made, temperature controlled Nutripak lunchbox appear to have been written in code. While other kids eat their usual chicken fingers and pepperoni pizza, Mitch Spinach mixes up his meal in a battery-powered blender before their curious and envious eyes. He is the smartest, nicest, strongest kid in Ms Radicchio s class, but he often misses recess when he is called to Principal Lycopene s office. The truth is that his high-powered fruit and vegetable smoothies give him special powers, such as super-sonic hearing and amazing night vision to tackle problems and solve mysteries at Sunchoke Elementary. American culture is ripe for a new healthy, cool role model for kids. Parents will catch the allusion to their old friend Popeye, and kids will be asking for an extra helping of fruits and vegetables. Plus, what kid doesn t like stories about super-hero kids? With national campaigns like Michele Obama s Let s Move program and Jamie Oliver s Food Revolution, The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach is as timely as it is innovative. Every family, library, and elementary school should stock its shelves with the first adventure in the series, in which Principal Lycopene calls on Mitch Spinach to investigate a mysterious happening in the janitor s closet. What happens next . . . you ll have to order a copy and find out!
About the Author
Hillary Feerick and Jeff Hillenbrand have been married for 15 years and have two young children, a girl and a boy. Months before their first child was born, they began to delve more deeply into infant and maternal nutrition. Health and wellness were priorities for their family, and they wanted to give their children the healthiest start possible. Six years later, compelled by the difficulties of raising healthy children in a fast-paced, junk-food-filled world, they decided to combine their expertise in health (Jeff holds a BS in exercise science) and writing (Hillary holds a BA and MA in English and is an English teacher) to create Mitch Spinach, a healthy role model for children. They wrote the first book in the series, The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach, with a passion to help abate the trend in nutrition-related diseases, such as type II diabetes, childhood obesity, ADD, ADHD, and chronically low immune systems. As parents, they knew that kids do not like to be lectured about eating. However, they also knew that kids desperately needed a cool hero who espouses a healthy lifestyle for them to emulate. The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach provides children with an entertaining, motivating but subtle lesson about eating healthy. They knew that parents would catch the allusion to their old friend Popeye, and kids would love hearing about the new super kid on the block, Mitch Spinach. Dr. Fuhrman is a board-certified family physician, author and nutritional researcher, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. As one of the country's leading experts on nutrition and natural healing, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, TV Food Network, CNBC and many more. Dr. Fuhrman presides over the nutritional and medical aspects of the Mitch Spinach mission. His endorsement and collaboration have ensured that the Teaching Points section, recipe and the information presented in the books and on the website are based on sound medical and nutritional evidence. Dr. Fuhrman s book, Disease Proof Your Child demonstrates that good health begins in childhood and that scientific evidence suggests that the food children eat in the first 10 years of their lives can have a critical and profound effect on their life-long health.
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