A child was once asked. "What does the color red mean to you?" "Red is when I'm in the hospital bed and sick because of asthma", he replied. "How about green?" another one asked. "Well, that's what my mother did to prevent 'red'!".
As a person breathes in, they inhale this particulate matter that can be found in polluted air, and it becomes stuck in the lungs. This leads to a number of lung problems, which includes asthma.
As air pollution increases, more and more people are getting hospitalized due to asthma. On the contrary, hospitalizations are less common as air quality improves. A person, who uses one or more green living procedures to reduce air pollution, is lowering the risk of asthma for those in the community.
Air pollution can also be associated with lung cancer. Long-term exposure to the sort of air pollution found in large cities and industrial pollution combined with auto exhaust, produced results similar to a non-smoker living with second-hand smoke.
Each individual who works to reduce air pollution by going green lowers their risk of lung cancer, as well as their neighbor’s risk. Green living techniques that help reduce air pollution include:
Use the car less (carpool, use public transportation, walk, or ride a bicycle)
Reduce idling time by shutting your car off when running errands or in long traffic delays
Mow your lawn with a push reel or electric mower
Buy water-based paint and use a brush instead of a sprayer
Clean with non-toxic household products
Recycle and use recycled products
Plant trees in your yard and buy houseplants for your home
Growing green in the house not only reduces the risk of asthma, but also improves breathing. Those toxic cleaning products you have at home like air fresheners and other home chemicals contain compounds that increase the risk of asthma. This content can reduce lung function. Many of these toxic home chemicals are contained in spray bottles or aerosol cans, which makes it even worse.
Aside from air fresheners, everybody knows that cigarette smoke and car emissions are the kinds of chemicals that can trigger asthma. You can try to go green inside the house by starting with your cleaning products. Nobody can control pollution or pollen, but you can reduce your exposure to cleaning products.
Currently, a large line of environmentally safe cleaning products, including all-purpose, kitchen & bath, laundry, disinfectants, and carpet cleaners have been made. This way, many were alerted to stop using products which has harm ingredients. 'Eco-safe' products were made to help the environment and efficiently make use of the natural resources we have in our homes.
The color red is often associated with danger or could simply mean, 'to stop', while green means 'go'. If we stop or simply avoid the things that can harm the environment, we are in the 'go' of living 'green'. It's a good idea to control anything you can, because these changes occur slowly over time. So we better start early, before it gets too late.
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