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 WEEKLY NEWS

 WEEKLY ARTICLE: 

Clear The Air And Green Your Life With Live Plants

Visions of Christmas trees and mistletoe abound.

The scent of pine is floating through the air.

There is green everywhere.

'Tis the season to open your windows and enjoy the health benefits of pure, fresh air. At least for us here in Florida!

What's that you say?? You don't think that the air out side your home is clean and pure?

That may very well be true. The planet we live on is sadly polluted. And depending on where you live, the air outside your home may not be as clean as you would like.

But the air inside your home may be even more polluted than the air outside!

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "we generate toxic fumes when we cook and clean".

I beg your pardon?? We here at Wholly Macro do not generate toxic fumes when we cook and clean, because we use organic foods that do not release toxic residues when heated, we use all natural stainless steel and cast iron pots and pans, no plastics whatsoever, and we clean with beautiful, organic, all natural cleansers. They release aromatherapy as we clean. And we do love to clean here at Wholly Macro. Just ask anyone who has been here!

YOU can use natural and organic foods, cooking utensils, and cleaning products too. No need then to be part of the Environmental Protection Agencies grim statistical data that states that activities of daily living such as cooking and cleaning are toxic! Especially when they should, in fact, be completely natural.

There are just too many home pollutants to even keep up with unfortunately.

Plastic grocery bags, non-green paper products such as chemically bleached and treated paper towel and toilet paper, and synthetic carpeting, furniture, and drapery, give off formaldehyde which can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, and allergic reactions.

Non-green household cleaners, laundry detergents, and bath and body products can cause skin irritation, headaches, drowsiness, and are laden with chemical estrogens (the bad kind of estrogen).

ANY furniture that you buy, if not made entirely of natural materials, can release such chemicals as formaldehyde and benzene.

Researchers at NASA and other institutions have labeled these chemicals CANCER CAUSING.

Did you know that?

What a dilemma.

Keep all of your doors and windows closed to stave off air pollution from outdoors.

OR, open your doors and windows to release toxins from indoors.

Which brings us to The Second Option, and the one that we are going to focus on for the remainder of this newsletter. Utilize live green plants within both your living and working space, and around the perimeter of your dwelling.

Surround the perimeter of your balcony with green plants if you are a condo dweller.      

If you have ever been to Wholly Macro, our green plants are cascading over the railings, trailing along the walls, completely surrounding the perimeter, and making their presence very pleasantly well known.

There are several reasons for cultivating live plants inside and outside of your living and working space.

Visually they are pleasing. In Oriental medicine, the color green is good for the health of the liver and gallbladder, and the color green also brings financial prosperity. Wearing green clothing, and having the color green around you improves the health of your liver. It is also very fortuitous to keep things that represent money in green purses, bags, and wallets!!

Green plants produce chlorophyll. And chlorophyll purifies the air that we breathe. It is excellent to have a green "wall" of foliage surrounding the outside of your home, and equally important to have lots of live green foliage inside your home.  

Plants act as natural filters, natural air purifiers if you will, filtering out all sorts of pollutants and toxins from within your home as well as from without.

So OPEN those windows, and enjoy naturally filtered fresh air within and without, courtesy of your green plants.

Of course, eating lots of fresh and live green foods is of utmost importance as well.

Remember NASA from up above??

If you are like me, you are wondering what NASA has to do with anything! 

Here is what they have to do with all of this:

NASA researchers have been testing various houseplants for 25 plus years to determine their ability to cleanse the air of toxins. Their research was initially aimed at creating a livable moon base. But via their research they discovered that a number of houseplants remove the three main gas pollutants that are often trapped within our dwellings here on earth, and in outer space dwellings as well: formaldehyde, benzene, and carbon monoxide. The plants take these pollutants, and many others both known and unknown, into their pores, translocate them to their roots, and break them down with plant and soil microbes.

This same principle is behind probiotics, which are found in soil based organisms (aka organic vegetables), and naturally fermented pickles and miso, and is how they create healthy "gut" bacteria within our bodies.

How great is that??!!

If nothing else, it is advisable to place plants within your personal breathing zones, those places where you usually hangout, work, sit, and sleep, at the very least, if not throughout your entire living space!

Some of the best houseplants to grow based on both their ability to adapt to indoor conditions, and their ability to remove toxins, are areca palms, english ivy, rubber plants, ficus, ferns, Gerber daisies, and bamboo.

Have fun clearing the air and greening your life!

Wholly Macro wishes us all, green, fragrant, happy, healthy, and pure holidays.

Blessings and thanks to everyone who has entered our lives.

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!

We will happily reconvene with you on January 8, 2014.

Until then, Peace. Love. Happy planting, and Happy Christmas treeing!