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Why living around nature could make you live longer (Not PC!)
Washington Post ^ | 04/19/16 | Chelsea Harvey

Posted on 04/20/2016 7:27:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

Living closer to nature is better for your health, new research suggests — and may even extend your life.

A study just published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that people who live in “greener” areas, with more vegetation around, have a lower risk of mortality. The health benefits are likely thanks to factors such as improved mental health, social engagement and physical activity that come with living near green spaces.

The research relied on data from a vast long-term Harvard study funded by the National Institutes of Health called the Nurses’ Health Study, which has collected health information biennially on more than 100,000 female registered nurses in the U.S. since 1976. The new paper analyzed participant data from between 2000 and 2008, taking note of any deaths that occurred and their causes. At the same time, the researchers used satellite data to assess the amount of green vegetation surrounding each participant’s home during the study period.


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KEYWORDS: agenda21; longevity
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Better keep this news away from the socialists! They want us living on top of each other in cities where they can keep an eye on us.
1 posted on 04/20/2016 7:27:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
A study just published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that people who live in “greener” areas, with more vegetation around, have a lower risk of mortality.

We all have a 100% risk of mortality.

2 posted on 04/20/2016 7:32:02 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

great info on trees in a book I have called Drunk Tank Pink.


3 posted on 04/20/2016 7:33:35 AM PDT by MarMema ("if voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it" mark twain)
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Oh, no. Keep the Socialist effers in their stinking cities. Don’t come out here in the boonies and wreck our life expectancy with their BS.


4 posted on 04/20/2016 7:34:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The longer I am here and see the collapse of our country and culture the less I feel like fighting to stay when the time comes (hopefully in about 25-30 years).


5 posted on 04/20/2016 7:36:53 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
a lower risk of mortality

Seriously?! What a maroon.

6 posted on 04/20/2016 7:40:29 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Unless you are eaten by a bear,


7 posted on 04/20/2016 7:42:56 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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Keep the Socialist effers in their stinking cities.

But, in the cities, there is a lower risk of morality.

8 posted on 04/20/2016 7:42:59 AM PDT by C210N (Supporting the Constitutional Conservative in the race. Constitutional Conservative Cruz.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
The health benefits are likely thanks to factors such as improved mental health, social engagement and physical activity that come with living near green spaces.

"social engagement" would not be increased with living in rural green areas, it would be decreased. That being said, I recover mental energy from being away from people so the original point is true that being in green areas would benefit my health and stress levels.

9 posted on 04/20/2016 7:44:14 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

So living in a natural environment is more natural and healthful. Big surprise.


10 posted on 04/20/2016 7:45:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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The folks I know that stayed young into their 80s and 90s were ALL gardeners.


11 posted on 04/20/2016 7:48:33 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: I want the USA back

As soon as we can afford to get the hell out of the socialist centers we do! (feet don’t fail me now!)


12 posted on 04/20/2016 7:55:54 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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“Is a it a view out the window or do you need to get out and walk among the trees?” Frumkin said. “Does a bush do the trick or do you need a tree?

Old trees work best...

13 posted on 04/20/2016 7:58:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (Insiders with unchecked control over 'rules' will CREATE rules that increase their own power.)
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Living in the country is great until you need emergency services.

Good luck then.

Have a heart attack on the farm and die.

In the city, you have a paramedic with you in a little over five minutes.


14 posted on 04/20/2016 8:00:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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Not true. Small towns and rural communities have more socially MEANINGFUL interaction. Cities encourage social anonymity. Many people in rural areas bitch about “all your neighbors know what you do”.....but that same snooping neighbor is likely to be the one to call 911 when you fall off your roof, or check on you when you fail to “follow your usual routine”. I’ve lived in both environments, and rural/small town is WAY preferable.


15 posted on 04/20/2016 8:13:16 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; Whenifhow

Pinging Whenifhow for data which can refute a few elements of Agenda 21...fwiw


16 posted on 04/20/2016 8:15:45 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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But, in the cities, there is a lower risk of morality.

I see what you did there. Yes, the anonymity of large populations is fertile ground for the libertine.

17 posted on 04/20/2016 8:38:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

We lived in a small town for 16 years. When we moved back to the city I felt like I had awakened from a long nap No more small town gossip for me ever!!!!


18 posted on 04/20/2016 8:55:13 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Quality of life is inversely proportional to population density.


19 posted on 04/20/2016 9:21:38 AM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: TEXOKIE; george76; laplata; GnuThere; bushwon; Fiddlstix; driftdiver; stephenjohnbanker; MarMema; ..

Agenda 21 ping!

Source of info on Agenda 21 - list of articles

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/

Example:
Agenda 21 — The Blueprint to Advance Sustainable Development
Good article to read if you are new or have friends that are new to Sustainable Development!

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/agenda-21-the-blueprint-to-advance-sustainable-development/


20 posted on 04/20/2016 9:31:11 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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