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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Michelle Obama Shops At White House Farmers Market, Talks Healthy Eating
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:20:56 -0600


Michelle Obama Shops At White House Farmers Market, Talks Healthy Eating
NATASHA T. METZLER | 09/17/09 05:35 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/michelle-obama-buys-groce_n_290522.html



WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama bought cheese, fingerling potatoes,
eggs, black kale and other items Thursday at the launch of a new farmers
market blocks from the White House.

Before shopping, Mrs. Obama spoke about the importance of healthy eating to
about 300 shoppers gathered in the drizzling rain.

"I have never seen so many people so excited about fruits and vegetables,"
she told the cheering crowd.

The first lady said she wasn't always so invested in healthy foods.

"I was a working mother trying to put it all together," she said. "Takeout
food was a primary part of our diet."

But Mrs. Obama explained that she gradually saw the effect eating better had
on the health and habits of her children.

"The kind of food that we put into our body gives us the energy to get
through the day," she said.

Mrs. Obama praised farmers markets as places where Americans can learn more
about how their food is produced.

"You get to know the people who grow your food, how they do it, you know, who
they are as people," she said.

These markets play an especially important in neighborhoods where access to
healthy options are limited, she added.

The first lady has been promoting locally grown food and healthy eating with
a popular vegetable garden at the White House.


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