March 2024
Add Some Green For a Healthier Environment
Eating a plant-based diet may reap health dividends. But surrounding oneself with plants may improve your health, too! There’s no need to turn your home into the Amazon rainforest. Positioning plants throughout your home or workplace may help improve your health in small, yet significant ways.
Can a humble houseplant help improve health? Plants improve air quality by removing toxins in the air and adding oxygen. Some plants are also thought to absorb electromagnetic radiation created by computers and other electronics.
Feeling under the weather? Indoor plants may help diminish coughs, sore throats and other illnesses related to the common cold. The reason? Plants help to increase humidity levels. Looking to subtract stress from your environment? Plants may help provide a soothing, calmer atmosphere and boost your mood too.
Better Living Through Chemistry
We often talk about the three types of stress, physical, emotional and chemical. The chemical stress on our bodies can be tremendous.
You probably have a favorite laundry detergent. If they supplied a list of ingredients it would require a chemical engineering degree to decipher. It gets worse.
After your whites are "whiter than white" many people add more chemicals to their clothing by using a fabric softener. All these chemicals attach themselves to your favorite shirt and lucky socks.
Better living through chemistry? We're not convinced. We think better living comes from less chemistry. Give some thought to the potential carcinogens, allergens and chemical stressors in your life. See what you can do to reduce them improving your health in the process.
Cause and Effect
When we get sick or experience aches and pains, it's tempting to look for causes outside ourselves. Convenient culprits:
Bad luck. Like accidents or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Germs. Blaming illness on germs overlooks one critical ingredient: being a hospitable host!
Genetics. The new 'fall guy' is bad genes. Yet, research shows that gene expression is a reaction to our environment.
We live in a world of cause and effect. Every symptom has a cause. It's tempting to look to outside causes, but many health problems are the result of our own choices, beliefs and habits. Sometimes the effects can take decades to appear.
Ill health is the result of your body's inability to accommodate physical, chemical or emotional stress. Similarly, good health results when your body works the way it was designed to.
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