Spring Garden is Fitness Health Goodness as a Lifestyle

United States First Lady Michelle Obama led the way to dig and sow a vegetable garden on the south lawn of the White House. Local primary school (elementary school) students helped, and are scheduled to continue sharing the work and knowledge and benefits of planting, weeding, caring for, and harvesting vegetables and herbs for the White House kitchen.

The first lady is developing programs to promote healthy eating for American families. In an interview, she stated, "My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities… Its most important role, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern."

Plans involve the entire First Family. President Barack Obama is scheduled to help weed and tend the garden.

In the 1990's US President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton tended a rooftop vegetable garden.

In 1943, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden in front of the White House. (In the 1920s she was also prominent in the movement to allow women to vote in US elections.) Her White House war effort Victory Garden inspired millions. By 1945, 40 percent of produce in the US was grown at home.

White House Garden:

• White House Blog

Start Your Quick Kitchen Garden In 5 Minutes:

• Fast Fitness - Sprouts Inside and Out

Get Outdoors for Healthy Gardening:

• How to lift, bend, carry, squat - Yard Work - Limiting the Person Instead of the Injury Again?
• Read about teaching neighborhood children self-respect instead of vandalizing, and to reap what they sow, and share what they harvest for healthier neighborhoods - Lifestyle Fitness for Kids Through Gardening
• From Reader Ivy - Farm Work, Lifestyle Exercise, and Preventing Overuse Pain
• See reader photos of healthful bending, reaching, cleaning, playing, washing, and gardening - Household Fitness in the New Year

Better Warm-Up and Stretching For Gardening:

• Fast Fitness - Quick Warm Up
• Sitting Badly Isn't Magically Healthy by Calling It a Hamstring Stretch
• Fast Fitness - Don't Shorten Hip When Stretching Hamstring
• The Stretch You Need The Least
• Free Exercise and Free Back and Knee Pain Prevention - Healthy Bending
• Change Common Exercises to Get Better Ab Exercise and Stop Back Pain

For more Fitness Fixer on each topic, click labels gardening and green fitness under this post. The label children gives fitness of all kinds for children.