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Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City

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Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City

The escape of a trip into mountains or a day lying by the beach may feel like an extravagance to city dwellers confined by a traditional work schedule. But exposure to green and blue spaces is far more than just a luxury. For kids, growing up without regular exposure to nature seems to have ripple effects that persist into adulthood, according to research published in International Journal of Environmental Health and Public Health.

Using data from 3,585 people collected across four cities in Europe, scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (also called IS Global) report a strong relationship between growing up away from the natural world and mental health in adulthood. Overall, they found a strong correlation between low exposure to nature during childhood and higher levels of of nervousness and feelings of depression in adulthood. Co-author Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Ph.D., director of IS Global’s urban planning, environment and health initiative, tells Inverse that the relationship between nature and mental health remained strong, even when he adjusted for confounding factors.

Goats and Soda : NPR

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New Guidance From WHO On When To End A Coronavirus Lockdown : Goats and Soda : NPR

Any government that wants to start lifting restrictions, said Tedros of WHO, must first meet six conditions:

1. Disease transmission is under control

2. Health systems are able to "detect, test, isolate and treat every case and trace every contact"

3. Hot spot risks are minimized in vulnerable places, such as nursing homes

4. Schools, workplaces and other essential places have established preventive measures

5. The risk of importing new cases "can be managed"

6. Communities are fully educated, engaged and empowered to live under a new normal

With everything shut down these days, time passes by so strangely. ⏳

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With everything shut down these days, time passes by so strangely. ⏳

Working from home, everything has an odd rhythm, a kind of timelessness. I clock in and out, and some days I’m quite busy but others not so much so. No packing a lunch, no bus to catch.

April hasn’t seen much of a warm up yet, but time drifts on as the PAUSE in life continues. One day the switch will flip and it will be warm. But without the daily commute and the lunch time walks around downtown, it’s not the same.