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How immersing yourself in nature benefits your health
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1840" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-immersing-yourself-in-nature-benefits-your-health" target="_blank"><strong>How immersing yourself in nature benefits your health - PBS</strong></a></p><p></p><p>How long does it take to get a dose of nature high enough to make people say they feel healthy and have a strong sense of well-being?</p><p></p><p>Precisely 120 minutes.</p><p></p><p>In a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44097-3" target="_blank">study</a> of 20,000 people, a team led by Mathew White of the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter, found that people who spent two hours a week in green spaces — local parks or other natural environments, either all at once or spaced over several visits — were substantially more likely to report good health and psychological well-being than those who don’t. Two hours was a hard boundary: The study, published last June, showed there were no benefits for people who didn’t meet that threshold.</p><p></p><p>The effects were robust, cutting across different occupations, ethnic groups, people from rich and poor areas, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1840, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-immersing-yourself-in-nature-benefits-your-health'][B]How immersing yourself in nature benefits your health - PBS[/B][/URL] How long does it take to get a dose of nature high enough to make people say they feel healthy and have a strong sense of well-being? Precisely 120 minutes. In a [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44097-3']study[/URL] of 20,000 people, a team led by Mathew White of the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter, found that people who spent two hours a week in green spaces — local parks or other natural environments, either all at once or spaced over several visits — were substantially more likely to report good health and psychological well-being than those who don’t. Two hours was a hard boundary: The study, published last June, showed there were no benefits for people who didn’t meet that threshold. The effects were robust, cutting across different occupations, ethnic groups, people from rich and poor areas, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. [/QUOTE]
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