5 Health benefits of camping

There are endless benefits to going camping like escaping the busyness of daily life, exploring new places and making memories with your family. But for this blog post we specifically wanted to focus on the health benefits of camping and why making the time to go camping is more important than you think.

• Stress relief.  With a technology saturated world, its incredibly challenging to step away from all the screens. Going even just a few hours without your cellphone, computer, a television is not an easy task. But going camping forces you to go without most of those things. So how is it stress relieving? Being constantly plugged in can leave you feeling like your missing out or forgetting something. Research ( Learn more from this article https://www.huffpost.com/entry/health-benefits-of-unplugging_n_3528710) suggests too much tech may lead to anxiety and even poor sleep. So going off the grid is good for both your mood and your sleep.
• Better food options. The more time you spend outdoors the more you’ll be craving real nourishing foods. Also, camping requires at least a little bit of cooking. With no options for pizza delivery or drive-through from fast food restaurants you will be cooking more nutritionally filling meals! And bringing along healthy snacks like trail mix and granola bars or beef jerky can help you reap even more benefits.
• Exercise and burning calories. From hiking, to canoeing, to biking, to swimming, and much more, exercise comes naturally when your spending time outdoors and you will find yourself partaking in more physical activity than you would on an average day at home.
• Extra vitamin D. When you’re out in direct sunlight you take in extra vitamin D which additionally helps your body to absorb calcium better. Taking all the vitamin D supplements isn’t the same as extra sunshine. Sunshine also causes your body to produce more serotonin - a chemical produced naturally in your brain. Serotonin affects your mood, digestion, memory and so much more.
• Better sleep. It might seem impossible that you could get better sleep in the wild than at your comfy bed at home. But the more active you are the better sleep you’ll have. And decreased use of technology means less blue light disrupting your natural sleep patterns.

We hope you feel healthier just reading about all the health benefits of camping! Camping will help you establish a real connection without your phone and return to your present with a clear mind and the value of that is priceless. We hope this post inspires you to go camping soon! Don’t forget to join us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and Pinterest for more inspiration and education!