Green grass clean air. Air and grass... What could be simpler, more necessary? Improves blood pressure and heart rate
Agree, you don’t really want to walk when it’s cloudy outside. Everyone knows that thanks to the sun we get vitamin D, but few people know that this happens even when the sun is not visible behind the clouds. We have collected as many as 6 benefits of walking on fresh air that literally push for a walk!
First, let's understand what happens when you for a long time are in indoors. Firstly, you breathe the same air, in which the amount of oxygen decreases. Breathing in this stale air does not provide your body with enough oxygen. This can lead to physical and psychological health problems such as dizziness, nausea, headaches, fatigue and exhaustion, irritability, anxiety, depression, colds and lung disease. Not a particularly attractive set, right?
Fresh air is good for digestion
Probably, you have often heard that after eating it is good to go for a light walk. Not only movement, but also oxygen helps the body to better digest food. This benefit of fresh air is really important if you are trying to lose weight or improve your digestion.
Improves blood pressure and heart rate
If you have problems with blood pressure, you should avoid polluted environment and try to stay in a place with clean and fresh air. Dirty environment makes the body work harder to get the amount of oxygen it needs, so blood pressure can rise. Of course, it is difficult for residents of megacities to find clean air, but try to get out into nature at least once or twice a week.
Fresh air makes you happier
The amount of serotonin (or joy hormone) depends on the amount of oxygen you breathe in. Serotonin can significantly improve your mood and promote feelings of happiness and well-being. Fresh air helps you feel more relaxed. This is especially important for those who are used to raising their spirits with sweets. The next time you feel down, just go for a walk in a park or woods and see how it affects you.
Strengthens the immune system
This is especially important in the spring, when immunity is significantly reduced. Mud, dullness, rain are not particularly attractive for a walk, so at this time of the year we go out for a walk less often. However, the white blood cells that fight bacteria and germs need enough oxygen to do their job properly. Therefore, make it a habit to go out for at least a half-hour walk to help your immunity strengthen.
Clears the lungs
When you breathe in and out through your lungs, you release toxins from your body along with the air. Of course, it's important to breathe really fresh air so you don't absorb additional toxins. Therefore, we again advise you to go to nature as often as possible in order to restore lung function.
Increasing the amount of energy
Fresh air helps you think better and boosts your energy levels. The human brain needs 20% of the body's oxygen, can you imagine? More oxygen brings greater clarity to the brain, improves concentration, helps to think more clearly and positive influence to the energy level.
And now we give specific advice on how to absorb more fresh air, and some of them can be done without leaving the city.
Try running outdoors. Find a wooded area or park in your city with big amount trees and go for a run. The combination of cardio and oxygen has a good effect on the respiratory organs and increases the endurance of the body.
Go hiking in the woods once a week or two. In addition to providing your body with oxygen, it can also become an enjoyable pastime and even a family tradition. And it is always good to combine business with pleasure!
Keep at home and at work a large number of plants to improve air quality. Plants produce oxygen and take in carbon dioxide(remember school curriculum?), and some of them can even remove toxic pollutants in the air.
Do every day physical exercise. If possible, do it outside. Sports help to start blood circulation more powerfully and supply the body with oxygen.
Ventilate the bedroom before going to bed and, if possible, sleep with the window open. But this item should be performed only for those who do not live in the center of the metropolis.
Ekaterina Romanova
The idea of improving the planet's ecosystem with the help of vertical gardens and gardens on the roofs of houses has long been embodied in many cities around the world.
But you can add even more greenery to the streets of our cities with green roofs in public transport.
A phyto-kinetic project for greening the roofs of buses was proposed by biologist Marc Grañén from Spain. This project is reported by the environmental news site urbangardensweb.com
Photo by Marc Granen
Marc Grañén calls himself a landscape painter. His concept of clean air in cities - the free roofs of buses should be bright from flowering vegetation and saturate the air with oxygen, and not just exhaust gases.
Two years ago, a similar project was already proposed by NYU graduate student Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s. But Marc Grañén is more successful than his predecessor.
The idea of the Spanish biologist Marc Grañén received the approval and support of leading scientists and engineers in the field of environmental projects.
Mark's phyto-kinetic project is more adapted to practical application, his way of installing gardens on the roofs of buses is more perfect, although it will take the test of time.
For styling rooftop gardens The Marc Grañén bus uses 7 cm thick hydroponic foam, which is much lighter than soil. This significantly reduces the load on the roof of the bus.
Photo by Marc Granen
The hydroponic system is supported on the roof with a perforated stainless steel grid. Waterproofing is also well thought out, it seals the roof and does not allow moisture to leak.
Photo by Marc Granen
for irrigation rooftop gardens condensate from the air conditioning systems in the bus will be used.
Usually the condensate is wasted, and in the case of a green roof, the water will water the plants. The hotter the weather, the more condensation will occur.
On cool days, you can drive through special car washes where there are no top brushes and soap suds so as not to damage the plants, or water by hand.
Green carpets on the roofs may have a unique design for different kind transport, and will also take into account climatic conditions regions and plant plants that grow in this climate.
Photo by Marc Granen
For many skeptics, Mark's project is utopian because there are too many "buts" in the implementation of this idea. First and foremost, it's about safety. Vehicle With green roof in case of emergencies and unforeseen situations.
But Mark thinks that more people support his idea, the cleaner the air in our cities will be, and green roofs will become part of urban culture.
rooftop gardens, green roofs urban transport, vertical gardens, and as a result of common efforts - a revived green Planet. It sounds optimistic, perhaps it will be, but there is a long way to translate the phyto-kinetic project into everyday life.
Being at home or in the office, we have to inhale air saturated with the fumes of furniture, working equipment, plastic, etc. In order to somehow smooth out all the negative influences on the atmosphere of the room of surrounding objects, you can start houseplants with the ability to purify and improve the air. Well-selected living plants are not only pleasing to the eye harmonious combination shapes and colors, but also improve the composition of indoor air. All green plants, absorbing carbon dioxide, release oxygen into the surrounding space, this has been known since school. But many of them, in addition, destroy pathogenic bacteria, purify the air from harmful gases and odors for a very short time. A unique indoor plant in this respect is chlorophytum. In just a few hours, it is able to clean the air in the kitchen from the products released during the combustion of gas. For a day, chlorophytum purifies the air in a 10-12 meter room by 80%. Monstera, ivy, asparagus, spurge, aloe, spathiphyllum are also effective in this regard.
To reduce the dryness of the air, especially in winter, and to enrich it with oxygen, sansevier will help - a real oxygen factory. In general, all houseplants with large leaves - monstera, arrowroot - moisturize the air well. Cyperus, whose homeland is Africa, evaporate a lot of water through the leaves. The pot with this plant should be placed in a pan or aquarium filled with water.
The air that we breathe while working at a computer for a long time is air devoid of phytoncides, live aromas, and negative ions. To “revive” such air will help placed next to the working equipment coniferous plants- araucaria, cryptomeria, juniper, thuja, cypress. Cereus and Croton will restore the ionic composition of the air. Familiar to all of us, geranium and violet are also able to enrich the air of the room with negatively charged ions. cacti filter different kinds radiation.
The air of our apartments contains large quantities of microorganisms, among which there are clearly pathogenic ones, such as staphylococci, pores of mold fungi. Getting on the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract of a person, they can cause various serious illnesses including asthma and allergies. Microbes in the air die under the influence of phytoncides secreted by certain plant species. Phytoncides are gaseous and easily evaporating substances of complex composition. They have a positive effect on the air environment in already very small doses. Especially generously saturate the air with these substances are plants such as myrtle, various citrus fruits, rosemary, geranium, azalea, dieffenbachia, anthurium, sansevera, begonias, tradescantia, lavender, mint, and this happens especially intensively during the day. The common laurel cleans the air very well. Volatile secretions of this plant inhibit harmful microorganisms in the air. With a long stay of such plants in the room, the bacterial background gradually levels off, approaching the minimum value.
It is no secret that our furniture emits substances that are very harmful to health - formaldehydes and phenols. Dracaena, chlorophytum, aloe, philodendron, ficus, sheffler, spathiphyllum will partially rid the air of these poisons, and asparagus can absorb salts of heavy metals. It is not necessary to have a lot of plants at home, especially if there is no time to properly care for them. It is enough to grow a few well-groomed plants that will significantly improve the condition of the air we breathe in our apartment.
Medicine has come a long way, but modern world due to constant stress, rush and high pace of life, there are still many health risks. More and more people are beginning to think about this problem and monitor the work of their body. However balanced diet, regular exercise in the gym and the rejection of bad habits will not give the desired effect if an insufficient amount of oxygen enters the body. What is the use of fresh air, where to find it and how to breathe properly? Let's figure it out.
Surely you have noticed how, getting out of a stuffy room to the street, you become like a different person. Feeling better, sharpness of mind returns and good mood, there is a surge of strength. It is clear why this happens: after all, fresh air is necessary for the brain and every cell of the body. What other benefits does fresh air bring? Let's consider a few points:
- Improves digestion. This advantage is very helpful if you want to get in shape and lose weight. excess weight, - of course, subject to outdoor activity: walking, jogging or exercise.
- If you find that a cup of coffee no longer helps to cheer up - do not be surprised. Perhaps it provokes. When you give your brain more fresh air, the body can function more efficiently. Then you will think clearly and act with lightning speed.
- If you have problems with blood pressure, fresh air is essential. Many doctors advise leisurely walks to normalize pressure - especially for hypertensive patients.
- Fortified the immune system. To protect the body from pathogenic bacteria and viruses, white blood cells require a certain amount of oxygen, which can be found in fresh air. Therefore, many lovers of long walks, as a rule, are less likely to get colds.
- Fresh air is good for health and strengthening the whole organism as a whole: it improves the functioning of blood vessels, lungs, heart and other organs.
It becomes clear that the impact of fresh air on health is invaluable - for both adults and children. Irritability, overwork, lack of initiative, laziness, nervous breakdowns- all this disappears when we inhale the "correct" air. Therefore, try to enjoy the time spent on walks and get the most out of it. This may not be easy, because sometimes we think that we should not be distracted from important work on the promenade. But it is very important to take at least five-minute breaks from business and “ventilate”. This will help you regain your previous concentration and allow you to work much more efficiently.
We spend most of the day indoors. Many find themselves outside only for 5 minutes - when they leave the house and get into the car. But the benefits of walking in the fresh air are extremely significant:
- First, as we said above, oxygen has a positive effect on our health and mood.
- Secondly, such a gentle physical activity, like ordinary walking, will not take much strength, but the effect will still be noticeable.
- And finally, every walk is a new emotion! You can wander into amazing places hometown who have never been seen before, think about plans for the future or meet interesting people.
That's why regular walks in the fresh air are useful. Only they are often limited to going to the grocery store once a month. Meanwhile, scientists and doctors say that every day a person should walk at an average pace of at least five kilometers.
What to do if on a working day, due to a busy schedule, you can’t find time for a full walk? First, you should try to walk to work - or at least walk part of the way if the job is on the other side of the city. Lunch breaks should also be spent actively, walking in the nearest grove and admiring nature. You can "recoup" on the weekend: call friends or family for a walk, go out of town or to the country. Good way get not only the necessary dose of oxygen, but also a lot of new experiences - travel. It is not necessary to spend sky-high money on luxury resorts - just go to a neighboring city to change the situation.
If you love animals, get yourself a walking companion! Among the "dog lovers" are often very fit and healthy people: after all, they walk a lot and play with their four-legged comrades, thus showing physical activity.
If you lead a sedentary lifestyle and are not accustomed to physical activity, do not try to get around the whole city in a day. Start with short walks of 15 minutes, gradually increasing the time. Then the walk will bring not only benefit, but also pleasure!
To find the load you need, use the pedometer. You can buy a "smart" bracelet that reads your physical activity, or download a special application to your smartphone.
Looking for fresh air: from the mountains of the Caucasus to your own home
Fresh air doesn't always equal outdoor air. His search for major cities is not an easy task, as natural freshness is destroyed by tobacco smoke, urban smog, car exhaust, etc. So you need to choose the right place for a walk.
It's no secret that walking in the fresh air through a forest area is more beneficial than walking along a busy highway. Indeed, many trees (for example, fir, poplar, juniper) emit phytoncides - substances with a strong bacterial effect. In Japan, for example, there is even a special term "shinrin-yoku", which means "forest baths". Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun, practicing "bathing", claim that walking in the forest improves health and mood.
The benefits of walking through the forest are obvious to everyone. Is mountain air good for you? Certainly! Surely you have heard some small stories in the news about long-lived highlanders: after all, the mountain climate is practically free from dust, exhaust gases and industrial waste. However, due to the low air pressure in the mountains, there is much less oxygen. Then why does one feel full of energy when he goes to a mountain resort or a trip to the snowy peaks? The answer is simple: when the amount of oxygen in the inhaled air decreases, the body's reserve forces come into play. Improves blood circulation, lung and chest function. But it’s better not to overdo it with height: there is always a risk of hypoxia, and it can lead to loss of consciousness.
If you stay in a closed, unventilated area for a long period of time, you will breathe the same air over and over again. will rise
June-Khleborost. Nature woke up by the beginning of summer and now its active growth is coming, therefore the month is called - Khleborost. The rye is earing, the gardens are filled with vigorously blooming greenery. The sun rises high above the sky and begins to bake even stronger, the day becomes long, and the evening is long and warm.
June: warmth envelops the earth
Description of the nature of summer in its very beginning in June(I - II week).
Summer has come. June. Nature blooms and ripens in summer, the gardens are full of greenery, the meadows are covered with a wide train of green grass. Heavy cumulus clouds soar slowly in the sky, like huge ships. And although the month of May at the end indulged in warm and summer-like hot days, the first days of June are often cool, sometimes rainy. You should not be upset, because it is lingering overcast at the beginning of the month for a while. A dry anticyclone will bring warm winds, and the high sun in the sky will provide warm and hot weather. In June, the air temperature is moderate without sharp jumps and averages +15 +17 ° C.
Summer needs time to heat up. There are still long hot, sultry and simply warm pleasant days ahead, when the sun wakes up early and sets very slowly, giving plenty of work up before plunging into twilight. And here the sun begins to bake, hot days come. The greenery is in full bloom, endowing with edible herbs. The sky is blue and clear, from time to time fluffy clouds float across it. Warm air exudes the aroma of flowering.
And, suddenly, unexpectedly, hot summer sun replaced by the rising clouds. The sky is rapidly darkening. After all, there had just been the sun, and now it was swallowed up by formidable darkness, advancing in front, covering all living things in darkness. Nature is on the alert, the birds calm down, only strong gusts of wind grow stronger each time, ready to pluck the branches from the tops of the trees on their way.
Thunder strikes with the first volleys, and then, with water like from a bucket, it charges a downpour. The sky is not visible, only the reflections of lightning with a crackle alternate with peals of thunder. The storm subsides as suddenly as it began. The sky is brightening, lightning flashes are becoming less frequent, thunder is receding. The first rays of the sun peep through, brightly reflected in the puddles. And life again summer forest comes to life, the birds chirp happily, the animals come out of their hiding places. Meanwhile, in the forest, in the most hidden dark places, the first mushrooms appear.
Beginning of summer in the folk calendar
"The swallow begins the morning, and the nightingale ends the evening"
At the very onset of summer, from ancient times in Rus', a unique rite "the cuckoo's baptism" was performed. After the complete departure of winter, cold winds and bad weather, it was necessary to appease the summer nature for new plant forces, good weather and a noble harvest. IN ancient Rus' the description of summer from the first days was like this. Early morning on the first Sunday of summer, Russian girls went into the forest to find orchid grass - they called it cuckoo's tears, and then, plucked it, carried it to the hut to sew outfits, each for its own cuckoo. Then the cuckoos cummed, meeting each other, people hugging and kissing. After all, becoming related to each other, becoming closer, together they brought the generosity of summer closer to themselves.
Bread sprouts in June, not for nothing that the month of June was called "grain-growing". Throughout the first ten days of the month, active sowing took place in the fields, starting from the days of Falaley-Borage and Olena, June 2 and 3, from the names of which it is clear that cucumbers, flax, belated wheat, as well as barley and buckwheat were planted these days. On June 7, aphids appeared, feeding on plant sap, releasing honeydew. By June 11, ears of bread were already rising on Fedosya-Chariot, by this time beans were planted. From the earliest dawn until late sunset, people worked in the field in order to be in time before the end of the sowing, which fell on the second half of June on the day of the equinox.
Summer in Russian poetry
Summer… One of the most amazing, beautiful and vibrant seasons. Summer nature is special, impressive. Everyone associates summer with something of their own: sounds, smells, sensations. These are juicy meadow grasses, aroma wildflowers and even dusk, coolness spruce forest. All the natural splendor of summer is reflected in the work of famous Russian poets. They dedicated beautiful time a huge number of romantic, exciting lines.
A real hymn to awakening nature is Sergei Yesenin's ode to a summer morning. Its summer is warm, washed with silvery dew, charming in its calmness. This delightful natural idyll shatters every day with the onset of the day into fragments of everyday worries, in order to be reborn again the next morning.
Golden stars dozed off,
The mirror of the backwater trembled,
Light shines on the river backwaters
And blushes the grid of the sky.
Sleepy birches smiled,
Tousled silk braids.
Rustling green earrings,
And silver dews are burning.
The wattle fence has an overgrown nettle
Dressed in bright mother-of-pearl
And, swaying, he whispers playfully:
"Good morning!"
Afanasy Fet in his work deeply describes nature in the summer, in particular, the lines of the poem "I came to you with greetings ..." evoke an association with the maturity of feelings, relationships. The allegory of the lines conveys the special sharpness of life and semantic fullness through romantic feelings, the lightness of being and the aura of carelessness.
I came to you with greetings
Say that the sun has risen
What is hot light
The sheets fluttered;
Tell that the forest woke up
All woke up, each branch,
Startled by every bird
And full of spring thirst;
Tell that with the same passion
Like yesterday, I came again
That the soul is still the same happiness
And ready to serve you;
Tell that from everywhere
Joy blows over me
I don't know what I will
Sing - but only the song matures.
Summer is different. Everyone sees it in their own way, sometimes experiencing mixed and conflicting, but invariably strong feelings.
June: the sun is turning
Description summer nature June (III - IV week).
The lilac continues to bloom, the smell of fresh grass spreads through the districts. Summer nature fills the air with herbal incense. The poplar has already spread fluff in the seeds, just to wait for light gusts of wind that carry new life around. In the forest, in stalls and ponds, the smell of spices spreads, no longer floral, but sweet herbal.
The greens are ripening with might and main, and now the strawberries have hatched by the end of the month. And blueberries are already keeping up with her, just have time to collect. In the morning, the cry of swallows is heard, in the afternoon frogs croak in the reservoirs, and the evening ends with the lullaby of a nightingale. This time describes summer nature as the most fertile warm time of the year for working in the field, evening walks and nightly gatherings around the fire.
A white blizzard is blowing through the park alleys poplar fluff, a kind of winter in fluffy warm snows. The clearings are covered with white heads of hordes of dandelions, as if hundreds of small astronauts have landed on the ground. Just about the wind, shaking the dandelions from side to side, will pluck the seeds in parachutes and carry them home. The squeak of chicks is heard, coming from the crowns of trees, parents barely have time to feed the voracious maturing chicks. The young growth grows quickly, you will not notice how it will already jump out of the nest, once or twice and flew.
The second half of the month in the folk calendar
"The sun from Petra-turn softens the course, the month goes to profit"
The most blooming in June different plants, medicinal herbs, Ivan da Marya rises, at every step plantains, buttercups, Ivan Chai is smoothed by the warm winds. Forest edges crumble in juicy points of berries. In the forest, you can pick up a lot of ripe strawberries, and a little later, wild strawberries will turn red on the bushes higher.
June 25 is the day of the solstice. From now on, the sun turns in the direction of shorter days. Now, in the morning, cold dew covers the grass low above the ground. This natural water you can drink it, because it is very clean, collected from the settled air vapor, summer dew does not contain salt deposits. At the end of June, on the 29th, Tikhon comes, and, indeed, the sun shortens its course, yes, and the birds subside. The sun slowly, with unhurried steps, hangs in the sky. Only in the shadow of hiding deciduous trees there is salvation from the incandescent rays growing in strength. Summer turns into hot July.
Summer in Russian painting
Russian artists convey the picture of the summer landscape in a very colorful and varied way. Here you can see majestic green trees, and an eared field, and an unusual turquoise sky with light gentle white clouds.
(Painting by B. V. Shcherbakov "June in the Moscow region")
The description of summer nature is unusually colorful in B. V. Shcherbakov's painting "June in the Moscow Region", which depicts the real greenery of the forest. From the front right corner into the depths of the picture, meandering along the laid channel, lies the smooth surface of the river. On both sides of it are mighty trees, it seems that these are pines mixed with hardwoods. To the right, almost by the river, a slender birch stands alone. In the foreground on the left are stacks of harvested hay. top paintings takes clear sky, which shows only fluffy white clouds.