Imagine having kids eager to eat spinach? What if you could sneak it into desserts? And how about secretly filling hamburgers with mixed vegetables? Or adding yellow and orange veggies to macaroni and cheese? And what if the kids would gobble them all up and never know the difference! Well, now you can.

It took a health food magazine editor (who had children who were picky eaters) to come up with The Sneaky Chef, a delightful cookbook that features recipes like Breakfast Ice Cream and Breakfast Cookies. You won’t believe all the vegetables that can be hidden in the foods that children love.

This is also a great book for adults who turn up their noses at vegetables. Since you can’t taste the difference, they never have to know that you are feeding them things that are good for them. You can even make these goodies for yourself.

How about highly nutritious (and delicious) cookies and cupcakes for snackers on the go? Can you imagine the possibilities for healthful holiday treats?

Well, see for yourself how easy it is….

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Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby, and other TV shows and DVDs for making babies smarter have been shown to actually slow down their development of language skills. While the study found no evidence that such programs make babies smarter in any way, a new study shows that they do cause babies to be slower to learn to talk.

In fact, the more TV and DVDs babies watch before the age of three years old, the poorer their language skills. A chart in the following video shows the direct relationship: more TV, fewer words learned. This is serious business.

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