Prescription for healthier humans: More time at the park

Prescription for healthier humans: More time at the park | Grist

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Prescription for healthier humans: More time at the park

“Parks are a part of our healthcare system,” said Daphne Miller , a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. These green spaces are crucial to solving hypertension, anxiety, depression, diabetes — “the diseases of indoor living.” But parks officials and the medical profession still need more data to take aim at the many “naysayers on the other side” who don’t believe in what landscape architects (and many urban residents) value, Miller said. Luckily for all of us, a few scientists are doing innovative research, trying to capture that data. Miller was speaking at a recent conference in New York City called Greater & Greener: Reimagining Parks for 21st Century Cities . In a separate panel on healthcare and parks, Deborah Cohen , senior natural scientist at RAND, and Sarah Messiah , a research professor at the University of Mi...

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Next steps on the Park Prescriptions path in this article featuring the Institute's key collaborator Dr. Daphne Miller [link]
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Avg US boy spends 2 minutes or less in Vigorous Physical Activity. Avg US girl spends 1 minute or less doing same. [link]
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Thanks Sharon for this post. Very interesting research. [link]
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