Gardening Health by Izabella Marozzi

Blair (1112)

maroz437 — 2024-09-30 14:33:47 UTC

"Emerging evidence suggests that school- or community-based garden programs promote healthy eating attitudes and behaviors in children and adolescents. Participation in these intervention programs has led to increased nutrition knowledge [8], preference for vegetables [8,9], or consumption of fruits and vegetables [10], and among younger children, an increased willingness to taste fruits and vegetables"

Blair (1112)

maroz437 — 2024-09-30 14:39:03 UTC

"Vegetable gardening is an integrated approach to promote a healthful diet, physical activity, and psycho-social well-being."

Thompson (201)

maroz437 — 2024-09-30 14:39:40 UTC

"In a Japanese study, viewing plants altered EEG recordings and reduced stress, fear, anger

, and sadness, as well as reducing blood pressure, pulse rate, and health inequalities related to deprivation." (Green Care, therapy exposure to plants)

Connection

maroz437 — 2024-09-30 14:40:02 UTC

This provides more information on areas offering Green care therapy exposure. I can talk about and explain what Green Care is and how it has been helping then add the studies and the location that have been using this and how it has helped with mental health

Thompson (202)

maroz437 — 2024-09-30 14:40:25 UTC

In northern Europe, Green Care Farms have proved popular and have grown in number so that there are now hundreds of such facilities in Norway and in the Netherlands. Patients who have impaired mental health, learning disabilities or drug dependency, as well as older people, are referred for a period of work in functioning farms, often involving animals.

Blair

maroz437 — 2024-10-02 04:17:52 UTC

"In summary, a mentored gardening intervention among cancer survivors represents a novel and holis- tic strategy to improve physical function, fruit and vegetable consumption, and physical activity in can- cer survied.'

Explination

maroz437 — 2024-10-02 04:21:38 UTC

the first two quotes talk about the benefits of school and community gardening in health and the last quote talks about the outcome of the experiment of gardening helping cancer survivors (more info in the article about the experiment)

Connection

maroz437 — 2024-10-02 04:23:48 UTC

These talk about the mental benefits of gardening and add some info about physical health as well.

Park

maroz437 — 2024-10-02 05:21:24 UTC

"The increase of this key protein, BDNF, by gardening activity intervention can promote memory by increasing cell proliferation and growth, as well as neuronal development and function in the hippocampus and cortical regions"

Michigan state

maroz437 — 2024-10-07 04:02:52 UTC

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), moderate-intensity level activity for 2.5 hours each week can reduce the risk for obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, depression, colon cancer and premature death.

M STATE

maroz437 — 2024-10-07 04:04:30 UTC

An experiment published in the Journal of Health Psychology compared gardening to reading as a stress-relieving activity; test subjects that gardened experienced a more significant decrease in stress when compared to the subjects that were assigned to read.

Gardening for health: a regular dose of gardening

maroz437 — 2024-10-14 03:08:12 UTC

"It combines physical activity with social interaction and exposure to nature and sunlight." Sunlight lowers blood pressure as well as increasing vitamin D levels in the summer,⁴² and the fruit and vegetables that are produced have a positive impact on the diet.

Gardening for health

maroz437 — 2024-10-14 03:19:24 UTC

The social interaction provided by communal and therapeutic garden projects for those with learning disabilities and poor mental health can counteract social isolation.