What's the Big Deal?
| While to many people,
Get Fit Through Gardening is funny, I feel that it can have an serious impact on
some of the greatest challenges facing us today. While it is not the
solution or the only solution,
it is a
specific solution.
If only a small fraction of the population in the United Stated adopted the Get Fit Through Gardening lifestyle, it could favorably impact the following issues:
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| Lack of Exercise - Considered by many experts to be one of main problems in contemporary society. Get Fit Through Gardening Solves this problem. |
| Overweight Population: People are not eating enough fresh fruits and vegetables and are not active. Again, Get Fit Through Gardening to the rescue. |
| Heart Disease: Aerobic garden both provides moderate exercise and cholesteral-lowering fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a two-for-one proposition. |
| Cancer: Vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, beans, spinach, carrots and tomatoes are packed with anti-oxidants, fiber and other cancer-fighting properties. |
| Diabetes (Type II) Directly related to a lack of exercise, overweight and poor eating habits. |
| Healthcare Costs: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure..." With the billions we spend on healthcare costs: expensive operations, hospital rooms and care - what would happen if we spent billions on prevention - Get Fit Through Gardening? How much of an impact would that have on the problems listed above: Obesity, Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes? How much would a 1% reduction save? How about a 10% reduction? |
| Environment / Recycling: Get Fit Through Gardening promotes recycling, sustainable agriculture and environmentally-safe gardening techniques. Organic gardening is physically more challenging than traditional gardening. |
| Poverty / Hunger: For only pennies a seed packet, the poor and hungry can eat well and learn to be self-sufficient with small gardens. |
| Physically and Mentally-Challenged individuals: Unlike sport and exercise, Get Fit Through Gardening can be modified to suit the individual's unique needs and abilities. It is non-competitive and is easily adapted to suit individual styles and personalities. |
| Depression / ADD / Isolation: The social nature of Get Fit Through Gardening can help those who are depressed, suffer from ADD or feel isolated (to name a few). |
| Children: Pick one or all - lack of exercise, poor diet, overweight, too much TV, too much violence, too much videogames, too many movies. Get Fit Through Gardening teaches a fundamental and age-old activity with a new, unique slant. Get dirty, get sweaty, get fit. |
| Job Opportunities (the family farm): With the reduction in the number of family farms, Get Fit Through Gardening offers teaching opportunities to small farmers. |
| Educational impact: Get Fit Through Gardening offers a medium to teach horticulture, physiology, nutrition, exercise mechanics, pest control, sustainable agriculture, biology, chemistry and many other useful subjects. |
| Crime: Gardens created in abandoned plots in Urban centers have been very successful creating pride in the community and a feeling of self-worth in the citizens. Get Fit Through Gardening in the prisons could be used to teach the inmates a healthy lifestyle and introduce them to the many subjects as listed above. |
| Can you think of others? . . . . send me an E-Mail |
For more information, my books, Get Fit Through Gardening (2008) and Fitness the Dynamic Gardening Way, are available!
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