Living in an eco-friendly neighborhood can impact our lifestyle but what researchers found was that green spaces with more trees could lead to positive health outcomes. Humans have always lived alongside nature and there is an interdependence among all organisms in an ecosystem. So it's no surprise that having more trees in our neighborhoods would help us maintain good health.
...when it comes to promoting human health, not all green spaces are created equal. That's the conclusion of new Australian research, which finds higher levels of wellness in areas marked by one particular manifestation of the natural world: leafy trees.
"Protection and restoration of urban tree canopy specifically, rather than any urban greening, may be a good option for promotion of community mental health," write Thomas Astell-Burt and Xiaoqi Feng of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales.
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Correlation is not causation. I could use the same data to make the argument that wealthier people are healthier and like to live around trees.
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