Story Title: Staying Healthy
Episode: Eleven
TX Date: 21st January 2012
Presenter: Kim Syrus

We all want to stay healthy this season and one of the very best places to visit to help and maintain a healthy lifestyle is right outside in the garden.

Tips to staying healthy

• Research is showing that gardening for just 30 minutes daily will help increase flexibility, strengthen joints, decrease blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower your risk for diabetes and slow osteoporosis.
• While enjoying yourself in the garden, you are also working all the major muscle groups: legs, arms, shoulders, neck, back and abdomen.
• Gardening tasks that use these muscles build strength and burn kilojoules.
• Maintaining a good garden will go a long way to maintaining your good health.