{"id":4186,"date":"2015-07-10T13:19:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:22:35","slug":"living-near-trees-leaves-people-feeling-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/living-near-trees-leaves-people-feeling-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"Living near trees leaves people feeling healthier<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A new study of 13,000 residents of Toronto, suggests that living in a neighbourhood with more (and or larger) trees leads people to report feeling healthier. The research team used Toronto tree density data and combined this information with a self-reporting questionnaire of general health perception and certain medical conditions including heart disease, stroke and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The study, which controlled for such demographic factors as income, age and education found that an extra 10 trees per block increased people\u2019s health perceptions to the same degree as if they were seven years younger or made an additional $10,200\/year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If an eleventh tree were to be planted on each block it would raise health perceptions as much as an extra $20,000 in income.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature14664\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ori<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2015\/150709\/srep11610\/full\/srep11610.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ginal research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports <\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Marc Berman, Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of 13,000 residents of Toronto, suggests that living in a neighbourhood with more (and or larger) trees leads people to report feeling healthier. The research team used Toronto tree density data and combined this information with a self-reporting questionnaire of general health perception and certain medical conditions including heart disease, stroke and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,51,1647,476],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-human-behaviour","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-15w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}