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

I'm always happy when I see contest that concerns health, it's essential for us to keep our environment clean, In other to live healthy, I'm grateful to "Healthy steem" community for organizing this wonderful engagement challenge topic, before I start I'll love to invite @pandora2010 @paholags and @bossj23 to comment on this post, and also drop their entry.

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According to my understanding, Environment means everything around us. Be it the water we drink, the air we breathe, or the land we walk on, even the animals and plants we see. It also consists of non- living like the man-made buildings, roads and cars etc. One thing we should know is that the environment can affect our way of life, so it's essential to take care of our environment, as we take care if ourselves, because when the environment is clean, the chances of falling sick will be low.

Do you know our surroundings are at times in-charge of our behavior?. If you ask me how I'll say, when we stay in a quite, clean and peaceful environment, we tend to be very happy at all times, as it calms us down, because the air that we will be receiving will be fresh as well. But if we find ourselves in a dirty, noisy and crowded environment, it adds to our stress and makes us feel uncomfortable and unhappy always. Now you see why I said our environment can at times be in-charge if our behavior, that's why there's this saying I always hear that says "No matter what, always arrange your bed before leaving the house, so that if you end up having a bad day, atleast you would have a well arranged bed to run back to for comfort".

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Inhaling polluted air can result to diseases like lung problems ( example asthma) or even worst a heart disease. Drink dirty water on the other hand can also cause stomach upset and sickness like diarrhea. There are pollutants in water that can enter our bodies, causing a long-term health problems ( example cancers). This also affects our plants and animals, and by doing this, it makes our meat and vegetables very unsafe for our consumption.

• Make use of reusable bags instead of plastic ones when shopping.
• Save up energy by turning off lights and appliances when you are not using them.
• We can store our papers, plastics, glass, and metals and later take them for recycling.
• We should learn to plant trees around our home.
• Reduce your meat consumption to lower carbon footprint.
• Avoid non-useable plastics like straws and some other utensils.
• Participate in environmental cleanup, once every week.

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There are people out there who didn't finish school, so they are ignorant of these things, they are people who don't know about the health damage dirty environment causes us, especially people living in the river line areas. But by teaching this locals about the importance of environmental conservation, they can understand the impacts of some of their actions on the environment. This knowledge encourages behaviors suck as conserving water and energy, reducing waste, recycling and encouraging environment cleanup. Lastly, education and awareness brings about a sense of responsibility and stewardship towards our environment, leading to positive environmental outcomes.