Kids learning about gardens by gardening…
Kids learning about gardens by gardening…
I don’t think everyone has to grow their own vegetables organically in order to be healthier. I do think that everyone who eats should, and has a right to know what they’re eating. From my daily observations the vast majority simply doesn’t have a clue.
The food choices of otherwise well educated people who take an interest in their diets for health purposes too often rely on biased statistics, mis-information and lies distributed by media supported by industries that have products to sell. Complete truth and honesty are not comfortable things to deal with. More often than not we just accept what’s easy and immediate. If they tell us a double burger with cheese, onions, lettuce and ketchup gives us all the food groups, why argue with that? If they say that ketchup is an anti-carcinogen because of the licopenes in tomatoes, we accept it without wondering how much white sugar or stabilizing chemicals we’re consuming along with the licopenes.
We accept tasteless, nutritionally vacant vegetables as simply the way vegetables are. Most people are staggered to find that daily fresh, nutrient loaded organically grown vegetables actually taste so good that they think they’ve never had vegetables before.
They tell us that we get all the nutrients we need from our food based on an analysis of their nutritional content. What they don’t tell us is that by the time our vegetables land on our dining room table, they have lost as much as 75% of the vitamins and minerals they originally had.
I think that’s got something to do with the fact that over 50% of us are on some kind of medical drug or another. I think it’s a very big factor in America’s over-weight problem.
I think if we want to really do something for our children, we’ll get them off the high tech gadgetry for an hour or so every day. I think we would take them out in the yard, dig up some earth, plant a vegetable, and learn along with them something about what they’re going to be consuming every day for the rest of their lives.
That’s what I do think.
Lee O’Hara
