Hartselle Enquirer
Michelle Blaylock
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I read an interesting article this week about gardening with children. An associate professor at Kansas State University was given a $1.04 million dollar grant in 2007 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Research Institute to study whether gardening can combat childhood obesity.
The professor’s idea is to create gardens at schools for children to tend encouraging them to be active and also creating “ownership” so the children will be more likely to want to eat the vegetables and fruits that they grow. All of this together will promote a healthier lifestyle reducing the chances of obesity.