Why living around nature could make you live longer
This is an interesting article from the Washington Post on the heath benefits of valuing trees. I hope this study adds incentive for our officials not to allow clear-cutting of developments in the Pinelands. Considering that about $3-trillion dollars are spent in US health-care costs each year, the expense of forest conservation is a pittance when compared to the health benefit return brought by forest preservation. Medical expenditures are pared in the long-run. Our well-being is worth the effort.
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The researchers found that people living in the greenest places — that is, people who had the most vegetation within 800 feet of their homes — had a 12 percent lower rate of mortality from any non-accidental cause than people living in the least green places...
This is an interesting article from the Washington Post on the heath benefits of valuing trees. I hope this study adds incentive for our officials not to allow clear-cutting of developments in the Pinelands. Considering that about $3-trillion dollars are spent in US health-care costs each year, the expense of forest conservation is a pittance when compared to the health benefit return brought by forest preservation. Medical expenditures are pared in the long-run. Our well-being is worth the effort.
S-M
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