Birdwatching helps students reduce distress and improves mental health: Study
Birdwatching enhances mental health in college students, leading to higher well-being and lower psychological discomfort. | Health
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Birdwatching enhances mental health in college students, leading to higher well-being and lower psychological discomfort. | Health
The study reinforces the importance of green spaces in urban areas.
Surrounding ourselves with nature does wonders for our bodies, from better mental health to healthier hearts and stronger developing immune systems.
A new research indicates that exposure to parks, trees and other green spaces can slow the rates at which our cells age. According to The Guardian, the study found that people who lived in neighborhoods with more green space had longer telomeres, which are associated with longer lives and slower aging. Telomeres are structures that sit on the ends of each cell’s 46 chromosomes, like the plastic caps on shoelaces, and keep DNA from unraveling.
Greener neighborhoods can slow ageing process of human cells but effects of environmental racism can erase any benefits