Show 1082: How Does Being in Nature Make You Healthier?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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When you listen to bird song, smell pine needles or watch tree branches swaying in the wind, what is happening in your brain? For that matter, what is happening in your body? Does your level of stress drop when you are out in nature? The Nature Fix: When writer Florence Williams moved from Boulder, Colorado, to […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:30.5	Do you feel overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of city life?
0:35.5	What is it about nature that relaxes us and improves our outlook?
0:39.6	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:47.9	Our electronic screens aren't necessarily inimical to exposure to nature, but they do tend to distract us.
0:57.6	Many kids today would rather play video games than run around outside.
1:01.7	Would some youngsters with ADHD do better if they spent more time at recess or playing in the park?
1:07.5	When I walk on the beach and hear the waves, I can feel my stress melt away. What
1:12.8	natural exposure helps you relax? Coming up on the people's pharmacy, find out how nature can
1:19.2	make you happier, healthier, and more creative. First, this news.
1:33.0	In the people's pharmacy health headlines.
1:37.8	Public health experts have been exhorting Americans to eat less salt and thus reduce their risk of high blood pressure.
1:40.8	New research shows that packaged food purchased in 2014 had significantly less
1:46.8	sodium than that in grocery bags in 2000. The scientists used data from the Nielsen
1:52.5	Homeskam Consumer Panel. Approximately 170,000 households participated nationwide during this
1:59.1	time, scanning every package of food they bought.
2:02.4	The barcodes allowed the investigators to calculate how much sodium was in each food per person
2:07.5	it was serving. They concluded that there's been a 12% decline in sodium content during this time,
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