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5 Benefits of Gardening at Home, Make Your Mind and Body Healthy

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia

There are many benefits of gardening at home, not just creating green open spaces to make them more beautiful. However, gardening is also able to help maintain mental and physical health, to build closer ties with family.

Quoting from Healthline, here are a number of benefits that you can get from gardening:

1. Avoid disease

Outdoor gardening activities, especially in the morning, unconsciously expose a person to sunlight. Morning sun has good benefits for the body.


The sunlight that enters the skin will be converted into vitamin D by the body. Vitamin D functions to maintain the immune system and strengthen bones.

The benefits of gardening at home are to prevent people from disease (Photo: istockphoto / shapecharge)-

In addition, other benefits of vitamin D also help reduce the risk of breast, prostate, bladder, colorectal, and multiple sclerosis cancers.

But keep in mind, to get the good nutrition of vitamin D from the sun, don’t do it deliberately by lingering in the sun.

2. Sports Facilities

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), having a garden at home is useful as a place to exercise. This concerns gardening activities that involve strength training in the body’s muscles such as sweeping, mowing grass, and digging the ground.

This activity is a form of light exercise. In addition, physical activity in gardening also helps balance body weight, especially for the elderly.

Meanwhile, for children who are overweight, doing gardening activities can also improve the quality of sleep for the better.

3. Preventing senility for the elderly

As we get older, the brain’s ability to remember slightly decreases. Therefore, gardening is a means of activity that can help improve cognitive function in the brain, especially for the elderly.

Researchers in Korea prove that gardening activity for 20 minutes in people with dementia can increase the growth of brain nerves associated with good memory.

An elderly mother trims her hair at a nursing home, Jakarta, Monday, December 22, 2014. No special activities are held for elderly mothers when commemorating National Mother's Day on December 22nd.  CNN Indonesia / Adhi Wicaksono.Illustration: One of the benefits of gardening at home is to prevent senility (Photo: Adhi Wicaksono)-

In fact, horticultural therapy (gardening) can also improve mental health and is effective as a method of treating people with dementia.

4. Improves Mood

People who spend their time gardening have been shown to have lower rates of depression and anxiety, according to research in the United States. The activity of watering plants in the garden also triggers the brain to release the hormone serotonin, which can boost your mood (mood booster).

5. Eliminate Stress or Saturation

Another benefit of gardening at home is to get rid of boredom and relieve stress, especially for someone who has experienced feelings of depression. Because, this gardening activity requires focus and is able to be a distraction from the cause of the stress.

The benefits of gardening at home are indeed many, but it is also necessary to pay attention to many aspects, so that this farming activity remains safe.

For example, it is important to properly observe the instructions for using chemicals on plants by using special gloves, closed shoes or safety equipment.

gardening hose illustrationThe benefits of gardening at home, maintaining mental and physical health (Photo: istockphoto / ArtistGNDphotography)-

Before gardening, don’t forget to apply an anti-insect moisturizer, to avoid animal bites and drink plenty of water and rest.

Sometimes, some people insist on keeping gardening even though the sun is hot, and forgetting to rest until it results in deteriorating body condition.

Furthermore, when gardening with children, it is important to pay attention to the use of sharp objects or the use of other chemicals, so that you can stay safe when gardening.

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