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The Connection Between What We Eat and How We Feel and How Healthy We Are

They're eating food grown in the White House vegetable garden.

The Obamas' first harvest,

Working with a few professional supervisors under the eye of their host, they pulled up a big bounty: 73 pounds of lettuce, 12 pounds of peas and one cucumber (which had originally been white but was yellow by the time the kids got to it). And then they all went inside to cook, before returning to the garden to eat.

First Lady Michelle Obama said,
"My hope is that [through] this garden, we can continue to make the connection between what we eat and how we feel and how healthy we are," she told the kids...

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