Improve Your Health By Planting Trees
Improving ones health is not just an inside job.
I know that many naturopaths and nutritionists etc are always ranting on about self-care and healthy food and exercise.....are you still awake? But what use is eating copious amounts of Organic Spinach when it's been grown on a sick earth and the air you breath and the water you drink are dirty. Health is not just about the food you eat but the environment you live in. I am not saying......stop eating that Organic food, keep eating it, but there won't be good organic, chemical-free soil left if we don't look after the planet that has done a fabulous job looking after us.
Many years ago when I was training to be a Medical Herbalist we were told by one of the Southern hemisphere's leading Herbalists, Isla Burgess, that you cannot be a Herbalist without being an environmentalist and conservationist also. This is true.
Overtime I have noticed the increase of health supplements on the market and more people training in the natural health industry, but I'm not seeing a decrease in disease in general, in fact I think there has been an increase. You can blame the food, the government, your neighbor, but it really is a reflection of the general state of the planet. And we are part of this planet.
So why plant trees?
Plant trees and you will improve your health. How? By keeping you alive. This is not a silly whimsical thing, this comes from science. Science that thing that many people don't like because it tells you the truth with evidence.
Here are some statistics from the wonderful would of science -
On average, one tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year. Two mature trees can provide enough oxygen for a family of four. An acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people to breathe for a year.
A mature leafy tree produces as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year.
One acre of trees annually consumes the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to that produced by driving an average car for 26,000 miles.
Are you convinced? If you have no room to plant a tree, then plant wild flowers for the bees. We all know what future we will have without bees.
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