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How to Improve Your Health by Gardening

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Working in and eating from a home garden can do a lot to improve your overall health. Not only can you get much needed daily exercise, you can also create healthy meals thanks to your daily labor. If you are interested in i mproving your health, you should focus on getting out into your garden regularly. Learning how to grow plants and doing the physical activity required to grow them can add variety and quality to your diet, as well as to your physical routine.[1] Method 1 Getting Exercise in the Garden Image titled Improve Your Health by Gardening Step 1 1 Warm up before gardening. Like you would with other types of exercise, it's important to warm up before you start exerting yourself in the garden. Stretch your legs, arms, and hands before you start so that they will be prepared for the work ahead.[2] You should spend at least 5 to 10 minutes warming up before gardening. Image titled Improve Your Health by Gardening Step 2 2 Work in the garden regularly. In order to improve you

How to Become a Health Inspector

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The term  health inspector  is a generic title that could refer to a number of different types of inspectors, such as: public health inspectors, environmental health inspectors, occupational health and safety inspectors, agricultural and food safety inspectors, animal and plant health inspectors, and mine health and safety inspector. Health inspectors can also work at the federal, state and local level for both governments and private industry. [1] [2] [3] [4] Method 1 Edit Becoming an Environmental/Public Health Inspector 1 Obtain the appropriate level of education.  Most environmental and/or public health inspectors are employed at the state or local (i.e. county or city) level, and each of these jurisdictions may require a slightly different level of education. The best location to find required qualifications is on that state’s department of health website. We’ll use New York State for our examples. Search for and go to the state’s department of health w