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

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Hello friends of Healthy steem, welcome to a new week of engagement. Our health is really important and as steemit is known to be a platform where we learn everyday, writing about our health is very necessary.

This week's engagement challenge will be an eye opener to a lot of people who didn't know how important their environment is to them.
When I was younger, my Parents always wanted us to keep our surroundings very clean and tidy. We really never understood because it always seemed like a normal routine to keep the surrounding clean.

On a different occasion, we were taught the importance of our environment to our health. This enlightenment was the best one we received in regards our environment. We started Keeping our surroundings clean and tidy.

The environment influences our health everyday of our lives. An unclean environment means bad health for every living thing there, and a clean environment means good health.

The word Environment means the surrounding where we live. It is the ecosystem we find ourselves and interact. The environment can be likened to a cup which contains water. We are the water in the cup and the environment is the cup. The cup shapes the liquid inside and this can be likened to how the environment we live in can shape the way we are. The environment is an important aspect of life and we need to cherish it.

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Our surroundings has a big impact on our wellbeing. The way we think and live is a big result of how we interact and react with our surroundings. As humans, our bodies react to dangers and also to places we feel safe. If the surrounding we live in is safe, this contributes to our mental and physical well-being. But when we are faced with dangers, our body tries to react to this.

In school one time, it was very dark and cloudy, so the pupils came into their once bright and coloured classes and they couldn't recognise it again. They started crying, because their brain was signaling danger to them. They kept quiet when we turned on the generator. The kids felt safe in the bright and coloured classrooms.
Our health and wellbeing is really impacted by the kind of surrounding we get to find ourselves.

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Water and air pollution has affected our lives more than we can imagine. Air pollutants like Nitrogen oxide which can be released from the combustion engines of cars and big industries, Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur oxide and other pollutants can affect our hearts and also the lungs.

There has been a major decrease in the quality of lives in the world, this is due to the emission of these dangerous gases into the environment. Cardiovascular diseases has been attributed to the poor quality of air we breathe.

The environment is the house we live in, the environment can't be in a degradable form and then the life forms present will be in good health.
The following are ways water and air pollution affects our health:

• Oil spillage and harmful substances like used drilling mud poured into water bodies are deposited into the bodies of fishes and other sea creatures. This can cause carcinogenic diseases to those who eat this fishes. Thereby causing lots of sicknesses to humans

• Bad water can also cause poisoning to our body system causing cholera and other sicknesses like skin diseases.

• Carbon Monoxide is known as a silent killer. Excess of this gas in the lungs could cause even death.

We breathe in air and use water for a lot of domestic and industrial purposes. Bad water/air can cause a lot of reduction in the quality of life we live.

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Like our teacher used to say, the little acts of good you do to your environmental can go a long way to better our health. The following are simple actions I take to make my environment better:

• Participation in Environmental clean up: Every last Saturday of the month, I join other people in my surrounding to keep the surrounding clean. I keep the bushes clean, take away stagnant water to avoid mosquitoes, dispose waste materials.

• Reduction in the use of paper, plastics and nylons

• I also reduce how I use water, I try to tell my kids not to waste water also.

• Planting trees and having gardens. Planting trees will help to take away carbon from the air and also keep the environment beautiful and reduce ozone

A lot of people don't know that the environment plays a big impact on their health. If a person knows that carbon monoxide and Nitrogen Oxide is being released from combustion engines daily, they will reduce the use of cars and generators daily.

We learn and relearn things daily and this is as a result of being educated.
Education can play a very big role in the fight against pollution. We need to educate people on the diseases caused by these gases. The diseases we face when we don't keep our environment clean.

A healthy environment means a healthy life. We have to be role models in keeping the surrounding clean and better. The future generation should always be educated on the impact of not keeping the environment healthy too, else there won't be no environment to live in.

Thanks for going through my post, I hope you had a good read.

I invite @imohmitch , @bossj23 and @davidmarkgeorge to take part in this contest of keeping our environment clean and better.

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