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August 26, 2011
In Today's Issue
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- Why This Outside Activity Is Good For Your Health...
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Why This Outside Activity Is Good For Your Health...
Dear Reader,
Any gardener will tell you that there is something very special about being outside, working in the dirt to plant and weed and tend your little patch of earth. For a population who spends more and more time seated behind a desk using technology away from nature, working outside in the fresh air and sunshine, with your hands in the dirt is a novel way to pass the time that just happens to be good for you too.
Gardening can ease your stress levels, keep your body limber and certainly improve your mood.
A new study from the Netherlands suggests that working in the garden can fight stress even better than other leisure time activities.
After doing a stressful task, two groups of subjects were instructed to read indoors or work in the garden for 30 minutes. Afterward, the gardening group reported an improved mood compared to those who read. They also had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
Experts believe that all of us have only a limited capacity for the kind of directed attention called for in our 24/7, always on world, and that we're maxing ourselves out in terms of having to pay attention so much of the time. When we've reached our limit, we get irritable, make mistakes, are distracted and over stressed.
The good news? The effect can be reversed with an effortless form of attention that comes from being outdoors, enjoying nature.
The rhythm of nature and the repetitive nature of many of the tasks involved in gardening are all sources of effortless attention.
Gardening helps improve your mood.
A Norwegian study on those with depression, a lingering low mood or bipolar disorder involved subjects spending 6 hours a week growing vegetables and flowers.
At the three-month mark, half of the subjects had noticed a measureable improvement in their symptoms of depression. And their mood continued to be improved three months after the program ended. Perhaps it was the novelty of a new experience that helped, or perhaps it was something in the soil itself that might be responsible.
Pursuing this idea, Christopher Lowry, Ph.D. a professor from the University of Colorado has been injecting mice with a harmless bacteria that's found in soil known as Mycobacterium vaccae. This appears to increase the release and use of serotonin in the part of the brain that's responsible for thinking and mood. This is the same mechanism impacted by serotonin boosting antidepressant medications in wide use today.
So should we all toss our pills and get our hands dirty instead?
Lowry isn't advocating that, but rather suggesting that until now, we've spent lots of time with M. vaccae and lots of other friendly microorganisms, and maybe the lack of these long standing companions has impacted our bodies in ways we've yet to understand.
Gardening does get you up and outside... in the open air. It also gets your blood pumping and fills you lungs with good, fresh air. The needs of the garden call for lots of different movements, bending, digging, weeding and other repetitive tasks are great forms of low impact exercise, especially good for those who find more vigorous workouts to tough to handle. What's more, when the gardening's done, not only have you exercised, but you surroundings look wonderful too.
This makes gardening the workout that people are more likely to stick with and do on a regular basis. Rather than being exercise for exercise sake, gardening has a purpose and a visible, tangible goal that you can see right away. Hard to beat.
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Why This Outside Activity Is Good For Your Health... Continued...
Gardening encourages good nutrition. If you're a vegetable grower, you have the
peace of mind knowing that the food you've grown and put on your table is the
freshest you can eat. Not to mention
being super healthy and absolutely delicious.
A few studies have shown that those who garden eat more fruits and veggies than
those who don't. Studies of after-school gardeners show that kids who work in
the garden are more likely to eat good foods like fruits and veggies, and are
more adventurous when it comes to trying new foods.
Gardening is good for the brain too. There's some evidence that the activity
called for in gardening can help bring down the risk of dementia. Two different
studies that examined subjects in their 60s and 70s for up to 16 years discovered
that those who worked in the garden on a regular basis had a 36% in one, 47%
in the other lower risk of dementia than non gardeners. This drop held even after
accounting for a number of other
health factors.
While more work needs to be done; these findings suggest that working outside
in the garden brings a combination of physical and mental activity that could
have a positive impact on the mind.
To get your garden growing...
You don't need a big backyard or tons of experience and special tools to get
your own garden going. You can start with some houseplants or container gardening.
While there's lots of guidance on the Internet and in the bookstores, some of
the best advice you'll find, especially for the beginner, comes from other gardeners.
Visit local garden clubs, your community garden, or a local farm stand or nursery
- these are the haunts of gardeners everywhere who will be happy to share what
they've learned with you.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/08
/why.gardening.good/index.html
National Gardening Association:
http://www.garden.org/
Better Homes and Gardens info on gardening:
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/
About.com info on gardening for stress management:
http://stress.about.com/od/generaltechniques/a/gardening.htm
WebMD information on gardening as natural therapy:
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/nature-therapy-ecotherapy
About.com info on gardening as good exercise:
http://gardening.about.com/od/allergiesarthritis/a/Garden_Fitness.htm
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