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Professor Looks To Gardening To Combat Child Obesity

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 16th, 2007

Candice Shoemaker thinks she might have an answer to the nation's obesity epidemic in children -- and is now working to show her idea can succeed.

Shoemaker, associate professor of horticulture, forestry and recreation resources at Kansas State University, has received a $1.04 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Research Institute to study whether gardening can promote a healthier lifestyle. The study is called Project PLANTS, or Promoting Lifelong Activity and Nutrition Through Schools.

With the grant, Shoemaker and colleagues will work to create gardens and high tunnels -- for gardening during the winter months -- in...

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