Forest – The Need For Conservation and Expansion

Our lives largely depend on the forest resources. Therefore, the need for forest conservation is of great importance today. Due to widespread growth of cities, it is observed that forest is being targeted as a land for prosperity. However, the case truly is of deforestation. If humanity follows the same style of clearing forest areas, it will soon see a climax and nature to balance itself will create imbalance in human life.

The threat:

It is observed that about one and a half acre of land is lost every second. Now that is a serious threat to the forest life. This loss is due to human expansion in areas such as industrial growth and mineral extraction. Forest land is rich in many aspects, and man is trying to use all the resources for his benefit, not knowing that a part of ecological system is being lost every second.

Growing trees is our moral responsibility. If you see barren land, you will understand the need for trees and gardens. Trees and plants add great value to human life and contribute to the growth of a perfect system. Wherever trees are found in abundance, you will see natural balance there. Therefore, to maintain a natural balance, you must take responsibility to grow trees wherever possible.

Forest is of various kinds such as tropical, rain forest, temperate and boreal zones, etc. All the types of forests play a role in maintaining a form of balance in the earth and losing such a land for human expansion might prove costly in the years to come. If you do not take conscious efforts to grow our forest land, time is not far, when ecological imbalance will lead to chaos, and mankind will be responsible for the same. Let’s make a conscious effort to bring about a change in forest growth and save the future of the earth.

Herbal Products And Its Health Benefits

Every culture practices herbal medicines as the herbs have therapeutic capacities. Tree leaves, roots and flowers are commonly used for medicinal fabrications. According to the experts, these herbs are capable enough to treat disorders like diabetes, cough, hypertension, insomnia, hormonal imbalances, depression, anxiety, blood pressure and many more. It acts as effectively as pharmaceutical medicine on the human body without any major side effects. It can be managed by herbalist or therapists.

History of Herbal medicine

Herbal medicines has been practiced from ancient age, it was popular in cultures like Greeks, Celts, Romans, Arabs, Chinese and Indians. Some herbal medicine practice has been originated from ancient Egypt, around 1700 B.C. A widespread philosophy of herbal medicine was originated in Greek, they had discovered the behavior of herbs i.e. which herbs works in which season and their nature according to the four elements likes air, water, earth and fire. The Romans duplicated the Greek philosophy of herbal medicine and modified them with few of other herb ingredients, some of those medicine are still been used by the herbal medical practitioners. 

Health Benefits of herbal medicine

There are number of health benefits of herbal medicine over pharmaceutical medicines, few benefits are listed below.

Herbal medicines are safer

Herbal medicines reduce the chance of side effects. Most of the time people don’t get any side effects of herbal medicines and some time there is minor side effects. It is always safe and don’t cause any harsh reaction on your body. These medicine are safe, therefore it can be given to children without any worries.

Cure long-lasting diseases

Herbal medicines are proven to cure chronic diseases better than the pharmaceutical medicines. Disease like arthritis can be very well cured by the herbal medicines; there are alternative remedies for arthritis treatment in herbal medicine which includes few alterations in diets.

Easy availability

One of the major benefits of the herbal medicine is that they are easily available. There are few herbs which you can grow at your home without any prescriptions, these herbs includes peppermint, basil and many more. Few remote areas in the world use herbs majorly for all types of treatments.

Low cost

It cost significantly less than the traditional medicines. It can grow anywhere and there is very less use of chemical therefore it cost less and has more effect on the body.

Food Pollution And Its Bad Effects On Health

Food pollution, commonly known as food contamination and adulteration, happens when harmful chemicals or toxin gets mixed in the food. Food contamination is caused by multiple reasons such as contaminated ground water, industrial waste, air pollution, genetically modified food and many more. Food ‘adulteration’ is one of the most popular parts of the food pollution. Earlier, people used to cook food at home with healthy ingredient and nutritional vegetables. But in modern era, people are more attracted towards outside food. Processed or restaurant food may satisfy your taste bud but it contain zero nutritional value.

Ready to eat and restaurant food are mostly adulterated; the food is prepared with poor quality ingredient which causes multiple health problems. 20 to 30% of the processed foods are intentionally adulterated. Food adulteration cause serious health hazard, it acts like a slow poison and slowly damage your internal organs. It causes heart problem, loss of vision, respiratory problem, appendix problem, small intestine problem, Anemia, epilepsy and many more. When you eat out, the food is exposed to harmful gases released through automobiles, various insects, garbage, sewage, etc. these pollution gets mixed in the food and makes you sick once you consume it. 

The health problem caused by food poisoning includes nausea, stomach pains, fever, chills, sweating, weakness, vomiting, headache and diarrhea.  In some cases food poisoning causes death as well. The only way to get rid of these health issues is prevention, to avoid adulteration you need to do background check on the retail shops your buy groceries from. Shopkeepers often mix harmful chemicals in food in order to cheat the customers, avoid buying food ingredients from such places. 

To avoid food poisoning ensure that your eat food at good and hygienic place; avoid eating on the street, especially in the rainy season. Food contamination is hard to detect as it often spread through wastewater and industrial waste, contaminated vegetable looks fresh and fine from outside because the toxins are mixed inside. It is even more harmful and causes dangerous health problem, to avoid contaminated food, don’t make purchases from suspicious areas or price. Always purchase your food from trusted shop and always make sure you do you research on the shop or store you go to.

Air Pollution And Increasing Earth Temperature

Air pollution is the term given to contamination of air; a chemical and biological alteration to the air is known as the pollution. Air pollution happens when smoke, dust or harmful gases enters in the atmosphere of the air and makes it unbeatable for living species. This contamination of air making survival plants, animals and humans on earth difficult. The ozone layer is very important for the survival of planet earth as it filters the harmful rays and doesn’t let pass in earth’s atmosphere. But the ozone layer is depleting due increased amount of pollution in the air. Pollution causes imbalance in the atmosphere, this imbalance of the harmful gases in the atmosphere causes ‘Global warming’.

Global warming has become the biggest threat to the ecosystem. It causes the rise in temperature due to which ice cap of south pole and north pole have started melting, rivers are drying and earth have started experiencing less rain every year. Due to rise in heat, the summer season has become even hotter and causing drought in many areas. Many species are on the verge of extinction due the hot climate. Air pollution also causes respiratory, heart problems and cancers. Millions of people have died to respiratory infection and children often suffer asthma and pneumonia due to the high contamination of the air.

Acid rain is also the result of air pollution, there are billions of automobiles in the world which releases harmful gases like sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere. These harmful gases combines with the water droplets (contaminate it and makes it acidic) and fall on the earth in the form of acid rain. Acid rain is very harmful to humans as well as animals, it also destroy massive amount of crops and makes it inedible. Air pollution is harmful for the animals as well, toxin spread in the atmosphere makes animal change their habitat and migrate to other place. The change in habitat causes inconvenience in wildlife and eventually they die due to lack of resources and fresh air to breath. If we won’t act now, the increasing pollution and heat will destroy the planet sooner than scientist have predicted.

Yoga Exercise And Health Benifits For Stresfree Life

India is the origin of Yoga; it is a practice of physical, mental and spiritual discipline. Yoga is beneficial for human body in many forms. If you want to lose weight, strong & flexible body, glowing skin, peaceful mind and good health then yoga is perfect for you. Yoga practice also unite your body, mind and breathe together, this alignment creates harmony which makes your journey through life much easier and happier. The benefit of yoga is profound; it transforms your life and body in many ways, few benefits are mentioned below.

Fitness: Yoga provides all-around fitness to your body; you are healthy only when you are emotionally and mentally balanced. Yoga helps you to reach at mental calmness and control your emotions. The body posture, Pranayama and meditation provide you serenity and gives new perspective towards life.

Weight loss: Everyone wants to lose weight and yoga is the perfect solution for losing weight the correct way. Regular practice of yoga exercise like Sun Salutation and Kapal Bhati Pranayama are best to lose weight. Yoga also makes you sensitive towards food which you body demands and you tend to start eating healthy and nutritional food.

Stress Release: To release daily stress and tension, you should practice yoga exercise everyday for few minutes. It will calm down the brain and relax your body.  Yoga posture, Pranayama and meditation are effective in releasing tension and help to detox your body. 

Serenity: People perceive a common misconception what to achieve peace and calm one need to be in the center of rich natural beauty. Whereas, peace and serenity can be found anywhere, you just need to practice yoga and meditation everyday for few minutes. It provides inner peace and makes us calm from the inside.

Boost immunity: In today’s world people tend to fall sick regularly because of poor diet and lack of nutrition. The poor health is also somewhat connected to the pollution but yoga practice can help you increase your immunity and prevent diseases. It poses massage organs which helps to strengthen your muscles and breathing exercise boost up your immunity.

Raise energy level: Today, due to heavy work pressure and shuffling makes people tired and exhausted by end of the day. Few minutes of yoga practice will make you feel fresh and energetic, it the best secret of feeling alive again. 10 minutes of meditation will show instant results and recharge your body and mind completely.

Overuse Of Plastic And Its Ill Effect On Planet

Plastic usage have become habit of our daily lifestyle, almost everything we use is made of synthetic material. Products like bicycle, computers, helmet, microwaves, fridge, AC and many more are made by synthetic material. It is a quite versatile material; lot of things can be made out of it, in a way it has made our life so much easy. But not many people know that this synthetic material is quite harmful for planet and species living on it.  Plastic has long life-line; they take hundred/thousands of years to degrade in the environments. Plastics are inexpensive material and lightweight, that’s why, is it is preferred by people to carry goods. But after a single use, it is dumped in the garbage and eventually in the river or ocean.

Plastic is not easily biodegradable and gets accumulate in the water as well as on the land. It pollute the water, makes it poisonous for people and other water species. Lately so many birds, animals, fishes have died after consuming plastics as it does not get digested, many whales ate it because it has strong resembles to squid, they eat it and eventually they die of plastic poisoning. Most of the species have already become ‘endangered species’ because of plastic pollution.  According to scientists, harmful chemical component are used in making plastic and it leaves nasty imprint on the environment. Chemical used in synthetic get absorbed by human bodies and alter the hormones and cause other potential problems. Plastic debris often injures marine animals/species as well as poisons the water body and makes it highly unusable for the civilization. Floating synthetic debris on water becomes transport device for invasive species which disturb the habitats and eventually destroy the ecosystem.

The piles of plastic garbage excrete chemical in the air, which pollute the air and makes it difficult for breathing. Even if you bury it in deep soil, it leaches out the harmful chemical and gets mixed into underground water making it poisonous. Additionally, about 4% of oil production and energy goes into making plastic. Also, people are exposed to deadly chemicals on daily basis; the exposure of chemical comes through air, water, food, dust, etc.  Government of Bangladesh, Australia, and Europe has already banned the production of plastic and many other countries are following the same step. It is highly advisable not to use such harmful product which is sucking out the life of the planet.