Breathe Clean Purified Air at Home or Work with Plants

by Barbara Minton
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(The Best Years in Life) The amazing health benefits we derive from eating plants and drinking their juices are just the beginning of the story. Research shows that when we bring plants inside to share our environments, we multiply those benefits exponentially.

Houseplants clean the air we breathe

Many of us think of the indoors as a safe haven from pollution. Yet research has found that the indoor environment may be as much as 500 times more polluted than the outdoor environment, even in major industrialized cities.

Indoor air pollution is linked to allergies and other chronic illnesses. The EPA currently ranks indoor air pollution as one of the top five threats to public health. People today spend as much as 90% of their lives indoors where they are bombarded with chemical emissions from building materials, paint, varnish, glues, dyes, synthetic carpets, household products, chemical fragrances and personal care products. If you have a relatively new house or one that has been recently renovated, your pollution index is probably quite high. Read More.