5 Benefits of Gardening
Some feel that making or having a garden is not essential. But from research, it has been observed that when you have a garden and have yours hands filthy with the soil, then it has health benefits. What are some of those benefits?
1. Stress Relief
When you garden, you make your body more relaxed. There is nothing better than for you to be more productive with yourself by having a plant and nurturing it until it grows into something big and successful.
According to research, it has been observed that when you get your hands into the soil, then it reduces a level of cortisol that is known as stress hormone.
2. Healthier food
People who have a garden, and eat from it live healthier than those who do not. In Japan it has been observed that most families have a little garden where they plant their vegetables and make sure that they consume regularly.
Some gardens are filled with fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthier diets. Home-grown produce is better than some commercial planted produce.
3. Brain Nutrition
One long-term study followed nearly 3,000 older adults for 16 years, tracking the incidence of all kinds of dementia and assessing a variety of lifestyle factors. Researchers found daily gardening to represent the single biggest risk reduction for dementia, reducing incidences by 36%. Another study estimated the risk reduction at a whopping 47%. This is because gardening involves so many of our critical functions, including learning, problem-solving, and sensory awareness, that its benefits are likely to represent a synthesis of various aspects.
4. Strength and Agility
It has been observed that when people get older, their hands gradually loose the strength they needed to have. But when this happens, then gardening helps them to keep the hands and body agile.
When over gardening takes place in older ones, then it can lead to cause repetitive stress injuries, tendonitis, and carpal tunnel. Practice hand-healthy gardening by using a few simple warm-ups, positioning your body comfortably and ergonomically, changing tasks frequently before strain becomes evident, and also balancing tasks between both hands also helps the brain.
5. Vitamin D
Gardening gets you out in the sun and makes you have once essential element of the body. Vitamin D makes you have a educed level of heart disease, osteoporosis and other forms of cancer.
Gardening has a positive effect on the body. Make sure that you have a good garden today and enjoy the benefits of it.
