Pot Plants for Cube Farm Syndrome
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Does going to work make you sick? Do you flinch every time the person across the partition in your local cube farm sneezes? Have you resorted to lashings of hand sanitizer and frequent sickies?
It probably won’t surprise you that studies have found that the indoor air your office, and even your home is giving you is up to 12 times more polluted than outdoor air. The culprits are paints and varnishes, ozone from old photocopiers and printers, pesticides, cleaning products, building materials and even the coolants in your air conditioning system. Dodgy air conditioners that don’t filter out enough carbon dioxide and humidity can make the whole situation much worse.
According to the World Health Organization, indoor pollutants are responsible for more than 1.6 million deaths each year. Yes deaths! Because more severe cases can set off asthma attacks or ‘irritant pneumonitis’, a form of pneumonia. And because there are people in some countries who burn kerosene stoves and the like indoors….
But still, even for your average office worker, the symptoms are still incredibly annoying; They include sore or itchy and watery eyes, nose, and throat, headaches and fatigue. Sounds a lot like a cold right? You betcha! A lot of ‘colds’ I see in office workers are probably from ‘cube-farm syndrome.’
OK so what do you do? Quit work? There might be an alternative; a study from Uni of Georgia found that putting pot plants in indoor spaces can reduce stress, increase task performance, and reduce the other symptoms of cube-farm syndrome. Pot plants actually remove ‘volatile organic compounds’ or VOCs by a process called "phytoremediation"
The gurus put 28 pot plant species through the ringer and Hemigraphis alternata (purple waffle plant), Hedera helix (English ivy), Hoya carnosa (variegated wax plant), and Asparagus densiflorus (Asparagus fern) were top guns for removing indoor pollutants.
Save Your Brain By Dr Ginni Mansberg
The evidence is clear almost half of all cases of dementia and cognitive decline are preventable. But sadly none are treatable.
So what are the lifestyle changes that really make a difference to our brain health? What do the experts do to protect themselves from cognitive decline? And what can we do right now to preserve our quality of life as we age?
Save Your Brain answers all these questions and more. As we age, dementia and Alzheimer's pose a serious threat to our health and wellbeing. To give us a running start in the fight against cognitive decline, GP and acclaimed broadcaster Dr Ginni Mansberg presents the very latest evidence based research on how to protect your most valuable asset your clever, vulnerable, powerful brain. As the health of our brains increasingly takes centre stage, Ginni gives up to the minute advice and strategies you can implement now to protect your brain as you age.
A must read for anyone looking to maintain their quality of life, or that of loved ones, into old age.
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