most popular garden blog post of 2013...Gardening: Nature's Anti-depressant
photo by Jan Johnsen
This post got many thumbs up on Google + this year:
Are you feeling a little down? depressed? Well here is a way to fix that - go out and plant something...
Studies have found that an hour of gardening a day reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke and increases bone density more efficiently than aerobics or swimming!
In fact, even looking at nature can result in a drop in blood pressure within five minutes and lower our stress hormones.
One 16-year study in Australia revealed that those who did daily gardening even cut their risk of getting dementia in later life.
(Gardening boosts endorphins, the body’s good-mood chemicals. Personally, my theory is that we need the sunlight on our pineal gland and this can delay dementia, but I have no proof, its just a 'knowing')
Here is a lovely story from Timesonline United Kingdom, dated March 27, 2010
"...Jane Robertson was earning a small fortune in the pressured world of derivatives markets when she had a …
This post got many thumbs up on Google + this year:
Are you feeling a little down? depressed? Well here is a way to fix that - go out and plant something...
Studies have found that an hour of gardening a day reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke and increases bone density more efficiently than aerobics or swimming!
In fact, even looking at nature can result in a drop in blood pressure within five minutes and lower our stress hormones.
One 16-year study in Australia revealed that those who did daily gardening even cut their risk of getting dementia in later life.
(Gardening boosts endorphins, the body’s good-mood chemicals. Personally, my theory is that we need the sunlight on our pineal gland and this can delay dementia, but I have no proof, its just a 'knowing')
Here is a lovely story from Timesonline United Kingdom, dated March 27, 2010
"...Jane Robertson was earning a small fortune in the pressured world of derivatives markets when she had a …