She's the Nutrition Magician, and for 10 years she has entertained children with magic tricks while teaching them a thing or two about nutrition. She will work her magic in Southern California during a three-week tour that includes a visit Saturday at the Children's Museum at La Habra. The 45-minute program is geared to children from kindergarten to fourth grades, but all ages are welcome.

"I think if we develop good food habits as children, we won't have as many nutritional problems as adults," says [Donna] Weihofen, a nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison and a lecturer at the university's School of Nursing.

The tricks don't work unless the children sing the magic words. For instance, in another trick, the kids chant, "Fruit juice, fruit juice every day, helps my body run and play." Then, Weihofen pours a pitcher of orange juice into a funnel made out of the Sunday comics. The juice disappears, with nary a drop spilled anywhere. What happened? "Garfield drank it," Weihofen explains.