To optimize wellness in your home and office, add potted plants. Not only will houseplants add natural charm to your indoor decor, the potted plants can help make you healthier, too.
Whole Living Magazine's January/February issue highlights a book titled "Plants: Why You Can't Live Without Them" by former NASA scientist Bill Wolverton, Ph.D. of Wolverton Environmental Studies. Dr. Wolverton emphasizes that potted plans can reduce indoor air pollution by filtering volatile organic compounds, also called VOCs, released into the air from carpet, paint, and certain furnishings.
In addition to purifying air, making breathing easier, potted plants also lift people's spirits and increase productivity, according to studies conducted by Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Uppsala University in Sweden.
Some plants, including certain members of the ivy family, are especially effective air filters. But just about any healthy green plant improves indoor environments. Get growing!
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Colleen Smith gardens in and writes from a historic neighborhood in central Denver. Her second book, "Laid-Back Skier," was released in September 2011 and is available through FridayJonesPublishing.com or Amazon.com and in bookstores and boutiques.
Colleen Smith's first novel, "Glass Halo," was a finalist for the 2010 Santa Fe Literary Prize.
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