The Green Ambassador provides Gardening services: A Healthful Medicine for Everyone

Cathy Allen, The Green Ambassador, is an award-winning environmentalist, is certified internationally with Eco Broker in Real Estate provides Environmental Education, Environmental Consulting, Sustainability Consultant, Sustainability Consulting, Energy Efficiency Consulting, Energy Efficiency Consultant, Green Homes, Green Home Solutions, Green Realtor, Green Real Estate services.

Environmental Education is important for everyone. Environmental protection is our responsibility and we must take it seriously. By educating ourselves, our children and our neighbours about its importance, we are taking a huge step to sustaining our planet and making a difference for the future.

In today’s society, we as humans have detached ourselves from nature.  As we become more obsessed with technology we are becoming more deprived of the natural connection we have with the Earth, which is causing alarming effects to our health and the environment.

The senior population is among the 90% of people in the U.S. living indoors.  This causes extreme sedentary, disconnection, unhealthy and unnatural behaviors.

Studies show that seniors that garden or are involved in some kind of regular planting activities are happier, healthier, smarter and more alert then those who don’t.

Here are my reasons why gardening is good for our growing senior population.

• The Soil-Mycobacterium Vaccae is a strain of bacterium found in all soil all over the world. Research shows that this bacterium elevates one’s mood and decreases anxiety by promoting happiness.
  


• The physical activity associated with gardening helps lowers the risk of dementia. A recent study that followed a group of 60 and 70 year-olds for 16 years found that those who gardened regularly had a 36% to 47% lower risk for developing dementia then non-gardeners.
  


• When gardening outdoors, the body is taking in natural vitamin D from the sun which absorbs into the body as calcium promoting strong and healthy bones and immune systems while supporting a better sleep.
  


• When you dig, plant, weed, cultivate in the soil, it requires the individual to stretch the major muscle groups to complete the planting task; thus decreasing the risk of osteoporosis in seniors.
  


• According to the American Heart Association, gardening can reduce the risk of stokes because planting and tending a garden is considered exercise like jogging and swimming.

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