Super Hero Inspires Kids To Eat Their Veggies

CORAL SPRINGS (CBS4) - As parent getting your children to eat their fruits and vegetables is probably a difficult task, but there is a new superhero in town that could make your life a whole lot easier.

His name is Mitch Spinach and he is the main character in the book "The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach".

Coral Springs parents Hillary and Jeff Hillenbrand felt something needed to be done to get their children to eat healthier so they decided to write a book in collaboration with Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a family physician, about a kid who gets super powers after eating super foods.

"We wanted to make eating these foods cool, not have kids say 'Broccoli, oh no' but rather 'Oh Wow'," said Hillary Hillenbrand.

In the first book, readers meet Mitch Spinach who seems to be an ordinary kid. But soon his classmates realize there is something very different about him, from the "notes in his custom made lunchbox appear to have been written in code" to mixing up his lunches in a battery powered blender while they eat the same old chicken nuggets and pizza. What the kids don't realize is that his super smoothies of fruits and veggies give Mitch Spinach super powers which help him solve mysteries and tackle problems at their school Sunchoke Elementary.

"The kids want to be like him," said Jeff Hillenbrand "That is our goal to have the children who read the book want to eat their fruits and vegetable too so they could feel the same way."

The book is geared towards children between 3-10 years old.

Find out more about "The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach" at www.mitchspinach.com.