SEC-S16 / W4 | "The Environment and Our Health"🌍👩⚕️
There is a tin line between our environment and our health. This is to say that our environment is closely related to our health. The way our environment is in most cases determine what our health conditions will be. This week's engagement challenge contest in @healthysteem we will help us to know how we are affected by our environment. The topic is The Environment and Our Health. Apart from life, our health is the next important thing to us and the environment plays a vital role in ensuring that we live a healthy life.
Let me now use the contest tips to explore more on this topic.
What do you understand by the Word "Environment"?
There are many times we use the word environment. In our homes, outside when discussing with our friends and colleagues but give little thought to it.
The word environment refers to our living space or surrounding where we live or inhabit. This is applicable whether it is a plant, animal or person.
It can also be extended to include the whole world in general or a particular area where activities of humans are felt.
So it is about everything we see around us, the people, trees, birds, plant, grasses, oceans and seas, mountains, forests, etc, all these make up our environment.
How do our surroundings impact our well-being?
A good environment contributes to good health of people, animal and plants. Each of all these things from our ecosystem is responsible for life sustenance on earth. When our environment is not good and healthy, every living thing is affected and will become unhealthy.
So a good and sound health devoid of persistent sickness and illness is brought about by a healthy and good surrounding or environment.
What are some ways pollution, like air or water pollution, can affect our health?
The air and water are life givers today. We breath in every day to sustain our lives. We take in Oxygen and give out Carbon IV Oxide (CO2), which the plants absorb, use it in the photosynthesis processes to produce the food we enjoy today, thus giving us the balance we need in the air.
But today, the air has been polluted such that we have less Oxygen, which the body require and more CO2.
This has contributed to a lot of health problems, for instance
° People exposed to pollution have more risk of heart and cardiovascular diseases.
° Increased rate of respiratory diseases
° it has brought about multiplicity in the rate of cancer spread.
° increased level of skin diseases.
Water too is vital and we cannot do without it in life. Its pollution can be disastrous for human health.
° water pollution can lead to increased risk of cancer .
° It can also be responsible for hormone disruption.
° It can have a damaging effect on the brain, altering brain function.
° It can be responsible for the damage of the immune and reproductive system
° Not to be forgotten is that it can also cause kidney and cardiovascular problems.
° Contaminated water can lead to increased chances of contracting Hepatitis.
etc.
What are some simple actions you take every day to promote environmental health?
There are many ways and actions to be taken to reduce environmental pollution. I will not be able to exhaust all of them but the following holds:
© There is need to reduce or possibly eliminate the use of plastic and even nylon bags, since they cannot decay. We should learn to recycle plastics whenever it is possible.
© Chemicals used at home should be properly disposed, their containers would be disposed well too.
© Our vehicles should be maintained to ensure that harmful substances like CO2 will not be emitted.
© Where possible, we should avoid the use of pesticides at home.
© Animal waste especially dogs and cats should be properly disposed to avoid contaminating our food.
© If possible we should dine more on vegetables grown without chemical fertilizers.
![]() | my grown vegetable |
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© We should try and plant trees since it helps a lot with sanitizing the environment and ensuring clean oxygen in the atmosphere.
How can education and awareness play a role in promoting environmental health?
There is need to educate people generally about ways they can promote environmental health. They need to be taught of the need to use degradable materials like paper bags instead of nylons.
The Government needs to bring up a legislation forbidding the use of nylons and plastics. Both of these adds to the degradation of the environment.
There is need to also ensure that we minimize the use of pesticides and chemical as much as possible.
Instead of providing chemical fertilizers, poultry manure should be used to grow plants which helps the soil too.
Families should recycle materials and maintain a clean environment in their homes.
Planting of trees should be encouraged. So when building, create space for trees. It helps with a cleaner air and oxygen.
![]() | the tree planted in my village compound |
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![]() | the tree I planted in my compound |
Conclusion
Our environment can make or mar our health. A clean environment contributes to a healthy living but the reverse is thee case if the environment is contaminated.
We all can contribute to a healthy living by maintaining a clean environment via our activities.
I will like @josepha @bossj23 @sahmie @uzma4882 and @irawandedy to take part. here
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Your suggestions for promoting environmental health are crucial and comprehensive. Educating people about using degradable materials like paper bags, advocating for legislation to restrict the use of plastics and nylons, minimizing pesticide and chemical usage, promoting organic fertilizers like poultry manure, encouraging recycling, and emphasizing tree planting are all essential steps towards creating a cleaner and healthier environment. Implementing these measures collectively will contribute significantly to preserving our planet for future generations. Thank you for your commitment to environmental stewardship.
Thank you, friend!
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Great.. good post
Thank you dear for coming around.
Do you also have trees around your compound? Do you think that a clean environment contributes to our well being?
We sometimes forget that plants are not just for beautification but also for our health and food, thank you so much for the reminder. Your fitness consistency is enjoyable, I will like to be like you when I grow up.
Thank you for your kind words. I agree with you. I wish everyone can learn to plant more plants and trees around their environment
Really, it is needed as it will favour us all
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Congratulations! Your post has been upvoted through steemcurator08.Hi friend, I really enjoy reading your entry I have learnt Alot from your entry, I can see how you have tried in caring for yourself and your environment, that so nice of you, we should all try to keep our surrounding clean because by doing that our health is saved. As people go to school more knowledge and skills are shared, and it will be helpful in our surrounding. Wish you success...
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