The Outside Interview: Florence Williams on The Nature Fix

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What’s the cure for our modern malaise of stress, distraction, and screen addiction? Nature, of course. But while many people advocate the benefits of getting outside, we are only just beginning to understand what really happens to us when we venture out the door. For her new book, The Nature Fix, Outside contributing editor Florence Williams expands on a 2012 feature she wrote about Japanese forest bathing, delving deep into the fascinating science behind the restorative power of wild places. Outside editor Christopher Keyes talks with Williams about the research being done around the world to investigate how spending more time in nature can make us healthier, happier, and even more creative.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Health IQ, a company that asks questions and uses your answers to figure out how much they can save you on life insurance.
0:10.0	Of course, ever since they started, Health IQ has been studying that data.
0:15.0	So let's take a look at some of their more interesting findings.
0:19.2	As you might expect, people that do well on the Health IQ quiz have about 10% lower obesity rates.
0:25.0	But among people with children, it's a 20% difference.
0:28.3	When looking at different generations,
0:30.0	Gen X has the highest health IQ score, followed by baby boomers, then millennials.
0:35.0	Sorry millennials, we're not dumb, we just don't test well.
0:39.0	People who are following a diet also tend to have a higher health IQ than everyone else.
0:45.0	And the Mediterranean diet seems to inspire the greatest lifestyle changes.
0:49.1	So if you're a Genex parent on the Mediterranean diet, or even if you just tried it once once there's a good chance you're going to qualify for lower rates on life insurance
0:56.7	To find out go to health IQ.com slash outside take the quiz and find out if all that fancy olive oil you bought might start to pay for itself.
1:06.0	That's Health IQ.com.
1:09.0	From Outside magazine and PRX, this is the outside interview.
1:16.2	I'm just going to test your guys' mics with Chris Kass.
1:20.8	We all sort of know in an intuitive way that nature is good for us. If it's not
1:29.7	intuitive for you, people like me have probably been telling you all about it recently.
1:34.0	It's in the news.
1:35.0	And if you're not hearing it from your favorite podcast hosts, well, how about 16th century
1:40.1	Dr. Paracelsus?
1:41.6	He wrote,
1:42.5	the art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.
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