SEC-S16/W4|"The Environment and Our Health"

Hello healthy Steemians, i believe this week has been fruitful. Its been a fulfilled eeek for me too. I thank the health steem community for this week challenge season 16 week 4 for the topic "The Environment And Our Health". It is very interesting for all of us to talk about our environment and how it adds to our healthy living.

Environment can be termed as the sum total of all the living and non living things and what influence human well-being. The places you spend more of your time frequently can also be said to be an environment.
Living things include Man, animals, and plants,
Non-living things includes water, air, and sunlight.
We are all dependent in the environment for food, air, and water. Therefore, there is need to save and protect our environment.

Our surroundings can have a negative or positive impact on our well-being. The places we hang out, what we see, hear, breathe, smell and experience can have impact on our stress level and mood, which in turn can affect our mental health.
Some of the things that happens in our surroundings that brings negative Impact on our well-being incudes;

○Noise: Loud neighbours, loud music can increase the stress hormones, making you feel tense. It can deprive you from sleeping.

○Pollution: Smoke and mold, polluted air can affect our breathing and can contribute to conditions like asthma, and other respiratory diseases.

POSITIVE IMPACT INCLUDE
○Social Interaction: Having a quality conversation with family and friends that can help culb any problem, or depression you find yourself has a great impact on our well-being.

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○Effective Pest And Disease Control: getting your surroundings fumigated with Insecticides and pesticides to keep the surrounding neat can create a positive impact on our well-being.

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Air and water pollution is the major thing that causes harm to our surroundings and our well-being.

Air Pollution happens when there's a release of toxic gases, dust particles, and smoke caused by both natural and man-made

Causes of Man-made Air Pollution

1. Carbons released from vehicles

2. Toxic gases released from Industries

3. Wilfires

4. Open burning of waste

Natural causes of Air Pollution

1. Wind-blown dust

2. Gases released from volcanic activities like nitrogen oxide, and sulfur oxide.

Water Pollution happens when a harmful substances like chemicals or micro organisms are released into a stream, river, lake, ocean or other water bodies. It makes the water toxic for human consumption.

Causes of Water Pollution

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1. Sewage and waste water

2. Ocean oil spills

3. Insecticides and pesticides

Air and water pollution can cause several diseases to human health. Diseases like lung cancer, increases the risk of respiratory infection, heart disease, discomfort such as irritation of the nose, throat, eyes, and skin.
For our surroundings, these pollution can kill crops and reduce their yield. It can also kill young trees and plants.

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These are my contributions to promote environmental health

○I emptied my waste bin in the refuse for waste scavengers to carry it ti the appropriate place for dumping or recycling.

○I weed the grasses in my surroundings, fumigate my surrounding to keep the environment neat and tidy. This will prevent mosquito and other crawling insert to come close.

○I make sure that all switches in my house are off, inorder not to cause fire outbreak, which can be a problem to other people in my surrounding.

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It is certain that many people will want to do something about environmental issues we face today, once the understanding of how things affect each other is consolidated through education.

.Education will help people understand how their decisions and actions affect the environment, builds knowledge and skills necessary to arrest complex environmental issues, as well as ways actions can be taken to keep our environment healthy and sustainable for the future.

.Education encourages people to use energy and water more efficiently, and recycle household waste.

.Education can empower individuals to make decisions that regards conservation, reduction of waste and different preservations.

.Education can inspire positive change and contribute to the long term protection of the environment.

Thank you for reading through my post

I invite my friends @missyleo, @glorious1 to follow in this challenge

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