What are the health benefits of gardening? VETERAN CULTURE By: J.Alicea

Working the land can bring you more benefits than you thought. What are they?

The garden is a favorite space in the home for many people around the world, who enjoy spending time there relaxing, reading, or gathering with friends and family. But working the land has more benefits than you might think. Besides creating a special space in your home, filling it with color and joy, it can also help improve your health. Perhaps that's why gardening is one of the favorite pastimes for so many people.

Connecting with nature may hold the key to relaxing your mind and improving your physical well-being. Discover the benefits that await you here.

It reduces the risk of developing osteoporosis

Because it involves movement, gardening is a physical activity that puts a certain amount of strain on the muscles of your arms, legs, and back, even if you don't realize it. Gardening generally involves pulling up plants, digging, carrying some heavy things, and all of this together will help keep you active.

It helps lower blood glucose levels

Because of the exercise it involves, it can help diabetic people, who are advised to exercise to regulate their blood glucose levels.

Improves mental health

By concentrating in the garden, the mind focuses and relaxes simultaneously. The benefits are so numerous that there's even a field of medicine, horticultural therapy, that helps people with psychiatric disorders through working with the soil.

Relieves stress

Contact with the outdoors clears the mind, and the sensory stimulation of aromas and warmth promotes relaxation, calms anxiety, and improves cases of depression.

Stimulates creativity

Gardening also allows you to try new things, improvise, and create, putting all your perception and intuition into play. Where will the flowers be best protected from the sun? Should I build a greenhouse here? Does this plant need more shade? These are some of the questions you can answer as you work on your garden.

All of this, in turn, affects one's mood, paying more attention to the present moment and leaving worries aside, to return later with a clearer mind and a more cheerful spirit.

Let's go to the Home Growing!

VETERAN JUAN ALICEA

@aliceajuanarmando