Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Feeling good in the garden
Yes there is a strong connection between gardening and good notion by a survey in the UK that has it scientifically proved.
Extensive research has shown that as many as 80 percent of those that spent in the garden more than 6 hours per week were satisfied with their lives, and even 93 percent of them believe that working on the land positively affects their mood. Additionally, they were healthier, had fewer chronic diseases, and live longer.
In the UK the gardening increasingly affirmed itself as a therapy for depression. In a pilot study, one group were attributed to anti-depressants, while the second part of the 12-week course in gardening. Positive effects were noticed not only by movement on the fresh air but also, socializing with people.
Gardening also brings a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction because we can see the fruits of hard work very soon.
Contact with nature is comparable with the return to home, likewise nature is our home, it provides us with a sense of security and belonging. We want to be in nature because we are, after all, a part of it. Humans have cultivated the land for 10,000 years, even when we were hunters and collecting fruits alike, we were in contact with nature all the time. It is therefore in our blood.
Gardening can be considered as a form of meditation because we allow our thoughts to wonder,and this calms us down.That is how our mental energy regenerates.In addition gardening yields and develops a sense of presence here and now. When we do some gardening work we focus, we exclude ourselves from everything that is happening around us and don’t bother what awaits us. This enables us once again to be able to see all the beauty of the world in which we live.
My Fellow Fazan enjoys the garden because he has plenty of food and feels free
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Mediterranean intangible cultural heritage
The Mediterranean diet (as a component of the Mediterranean style of life) among seven Mediterranean countries, including the Croatian, was incorporated on December 4th 2014 in the list of UNESCO's protection of intangible culture, which is a significant confirmation of the value of olives and olive oil as part of the planetary heritage. This lists Croatia as the second in Europe and fifth in the world in the number of enrolled cultural items at UNESCO lists of intangible cultural heritage.
On the Croatian Adriatic Coast, as well as in other Mediterranean countries, the Mediterranean type of diet is manifested in the social, spiritual and material level of everyday life and also the foundation of the identity of the people who live here, are a result of different cultures and influences that are passed from generation to generation.
In the food chain and with its olive oil, not only are precious ingredients of Mediterranean cuisine, but it is extremely important that their properties in the mental health system are almost irreplaceable.
Oblica Olive Trees are the most common along the Nothern Dalmatian Croatian Coast.
Mediterranean Olive Oil and Red wine, Herbs from DalmatinskiVrtal are part of my everyday meal.
Mediterranean Olive Oil and Red wine, Herbs from DalmatinskiVrtal are part of my everyday meal.















