Last month I posted about  Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious cookbook. The recipes in the book are designed to trick your kids into eating vegetables. Now thanks to Oprah.com and Jessica you can try some of these secret recipes for free.

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BREAKFAST:

Scrambled eggs with hidden cauliflower

Pancakes with sweet potato

MEALTIME:

Mac and cheese with butternut squash or cauliflower

Chicken nuggets with broccoli, spinach, sweet potato or beat

Italian meatloaf with carrot

Quesadillas with butternut squash

DESSERT:

Blueberry oatmeal bars with spinach

Chocolate cake with beats

Brownies with carrot and spinach

Enjoy these nutritious recipes!

Watching Access Hollywood last night I learned that Tori Spelling did in fact lose the baby weight via NutriSystem. Believe it or not NutriSystem happens to be the first and only diet the Beverly Hill's 90210 star has ever followed.

“I went on the NutriSystem program after I had the baby and it took the weight off,” Tori told Access Hollywood. “I’m actually a few pounds thinner now, than I was before I had Liam."

Because Tori had never dieted before she was worried if it would be difficult. “I was terrified! I thought, ‘Oh my God! I can’t be so strict. I can’t be on flavorless food, tiny portions. What am I going to do? Am I going to starve to death?’” Tori recounted. “Then I went on NutriSystem it was convenient. It was easy.”

As for exercise this naturally thin mom admits she barely hits the gym . “It’s not like I had to workout heavily for a workout every day, except my baby is really heavy now, so that is a little of an arm workout,” Tori said.

To watch Access Hollywood's interview with Tori CLICK IT!

When its television screens go blank on Saturday, the Nickelodeon cable network is advising its viewers not to fiddle with the buttons -- but to go outside and play.

The three hours of dead air the children's network will begin broadcasting at noon (EDT/PDT) is part of its fourth annual world wide day of play, an encouragement to kids to get outside and work on getting in shape.

Later that day, any kids who have gotten the exercise bug might tune into the network's "Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge" (6 p.m. EDT/PDT) and compare what they did with other kids whose exercise regimens have been spotlighted on the show.

I think it's great that Nickelodeon is taking part in such an important cause. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimate that approximately 19 percent of children (ages 6-11) and 17 percent of adolescents (ages 12-19) are considered overweight. And then, there's the future: Researchers predict that nearly half the children in North America will be overweight by 2010. An alarming 80 percent of these children will likely be overweight as adults, placing them at a higher risk of developing health problems like high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes.

To learn more about combating child obesity CLICK HERE!

SOURCE: CNN

Her recipes including donuts made with pumpkin and sweet potato and chocolate chip cookies made with chic peas sound mouth watering. You don’t have to be a mother to enjoy the creatively healthy recipes featured in this book.  Deceptively Delicious sells HERE for $17

CNN reports that heavy kids miss more school. A new study observing more than 1,000 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from the Philadelphia school system found 4 main predictors for missing school including

• RACE
• AGE
• SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
• GENDER

Digging deeper research discovered that overweight students were absent 20% more often than other kids. They suggest that the heavier children are avoiding school because of bullying and athletic performance in gym class. They interviewed one overweight girl who said " They would call me cupcake as a joke and I would just sorta laugh about it cause you know I knew I couldn't do anything about it."

Doctors say that their research shows being overweight not only causes health problems in children but psychological ones as well. They say that schools need to look at how they can help kids with weight issues over come these issues so that they can feel more comfortable at school.

SOURCE: CNN Video