What's Growing This Spring in the White House Garden?
Furthermore, the First Lady's brand new White House vegetable garden will hopefully encourage Americans to think more about the foods they're stuffing down their throats.
The "first garden" will grow fruits, vegetables and herbs to be harvested in the coming year and used in the White House kitchen, but Michelle Obama's patch of green won't be the first garden dug at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
In the 1800s, the nation's second president, John Adams, planted the very first garden so that he and his family could enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables. Then during the 1940s Eleanor Roosevelt brought it back, calling them "Victory Gardens" to support the war effort, but eventually the garden was scrapped again.
So now the return of the White House garden is being welcomed by many. Calling it a superb way of persuading Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. Given our addiction to disease-causing processed foods and saturated fat and our staggering rates of cancer, obesity, diabetes and heart disease. This lead-by-example couldn't have come at a better time.
And it's catching on already. Haagen-Dazs ice cream, yes it's ironic, but well-intentioned, plans to distribute two million bee-friendly flower seeds aimed at encouraging American families to plant gardens and let bees to pollinate them.
Across the pond, Great Britain's National Trust has pledged to create 1,000 new plots of land over the next three years to allow local communities to grow their own fruits and vegetables.
For more history on the White House garden check out The Garden of Eatin': A Short History of America's Garden.
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I welcome any good role models who have the kind of influence the Obama's do. How fabulous to have them doing something that could have a major filtering down effect on the many people who look up to and want to emulate them. Maybe they'll also donate (a type of food bailout) the excess to some of their needy constituents as well.
ReplyI agree! I said it all in my post under comments on Michelle Obama's arms.
ReplyTotally agree with you Cari. I think it's even more impactful because she's a parent of young children.
ReplyThat is so great! What a fantastic example she is setting! I wish I had the knowledge and patience for a garden, I really admire people that do! I miss picking fresh veggies from the backyard like I could as a kid. Good on the Obama's.
ReplyHa, I'm pretty sure Michelle Obama isn't going to be out there pulling the weeds and actually looking after the garden. They probably hired a professional gardener for that...all the Obamas probably had to do was pick out their seeds and then wait until they get to eat everything.
Reply"addiction to disease-causing ... ... ... saturated fat"
what's wrong with saturated fat? - the healthiest thing for humans...
ReplyWhat?!!!
Replywhat what? humans' cells are made of saturated fat, and all claims about its "disease-causing" nature is just a big and nasty scam...
ReplyI'm afraid you are quite misinformed. While a very small amount of saturated fat is required in our diets the majority of fat we consume should be UNsaturated, unless of course the goal is develop heart disease.
Replythe so called "Lipid Hypothesis" upon which the theory that sat.fat causes heart disease is essentially flawed;
many indiginous peoples'(Inuit, Masai... not to forget French paradox) diet consisted of high amounts of sat.fat. and they knew no heart diseases - until they adopted high-carb.(western) diets
another issue is that a diet low in sat.fat. reduces testosterone level;
and you get satiated faster when eating high-saturated fat foods.
ReplyI agree with Cari, it's great to see prominent people doing things that will have a positive impact on the population.
It's such a nice feeling to eat something that's been grown in your own garden, and it always tastes so much better to the supermarket bought produce.
ReplyThe Inuit have short life spans and many other types of diseases, the Masai's health was primarily due to their very high activity level in the wild, and the French paradox isn't.
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