
Healthy Living
The benefits of gardening
Many of us love being surrounded by nature and its serenity and peace, but not everyone likes to engage in gardening. Some people might think that gardening is the job of elderly people only, which is incorrect as every individual can benefit from gardening. There are a large number of benefits that any individual can enjoy by engaging in gardening as a daily activity: Effective exercise that also helps prevent heart disease Engaging in gardening daily can help you to burn a lot of calories as gardening, in itself, is a high-intensity exercise. Research says that you can burn over three hundred calories in just one hour of gardening. Heavy gardening is equal to thirty minutes of moderate exercise. This means that gardening five times a week can reduce the risk of heart stroke or heart disease. There are also people who recommend gardening to reduce the risk of high blood pressure or to prevent the condition from getting severe. Provides healthy food Another great benefit of gardening is that you can get healthy food from your own garden. As we are all aware, eating healthy fruits and vegetables supplies the body with the required vitamins and nutrients and help you to stay fit and healthy.
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