Gardening

Do you like gardening?

Gardening can burn calories and good for health. When gardening, you will be doing activities such as cutting grass, trimming plants, change the pots, planting flowers and trees, fertilizing and watering the plants. Gardening activities will burn about 280 calories to 380 calories per hour. Total calories burned is equivalent to jogging or running for 30 minutes or run a distance of 2.5 km. Even the activity of gardening can burn more calories than cycling. Gardening equivalent of exercising in the gym to be spending a lot of money. Gardening can also reduce the stress of a person. Gardening while enjoying the beauty of plants and garden can calm the mind. For those who are elderly, gardening activities provide many benefits. Caring for plants can make the elderly feel that they are needed and not lonely.

For those who are experiencing mental health problems or have psychological disorders, gardening activities also have a positive effect. With the garden, one feels calm. Especially when working with plants and flower gardens are beautiful and tranquil surroundings. Furthermore gardening activity may help a person gain confidence.

However, gardening is not just people who benefit from the green environment, people who live or be around the house with a beautiful garden will also benefit. Several observations indicate that the person will feel more happy with the environment that many green plants.