Saturday, May 21, 2011

How gardening improves your health?

  • Your garden can create a place of meditation, contemplation and relaxation for you.
  • Gardening helps you fight stress.
  • Gardening is a wonderful form of exercise that is good for your body and mind. Researchers compared gardening to bicycling, aerobics, dancing and weight training. Yard work is the best work shown to be significant for maintaining healthy bone mass.
  • You can shed your extra weight by gardening .Weight-bearing activities such as digging and lifting can build muscle, and aerobic activities such as raking, mowing and hoeing can burn your calories.

A sneak peek of my garden!




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