绿色环境改善健康

More contact with nature helps both body and mind BY LYDIA DENWORTH | ILLUSTRATION BY JAY BENDT LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE, I took refuge in the outdoors during the worst of the COVID pandemic. Being outside reduced the chance of infection, but it also helped in other ways. “I think everybody got that nature seemed to be the solution for a lot of the stress people were dealing with,” says Jay Maddock, an experimental psychologist and director of the Center for Health & Nature at Texas A&M University. More time in the green is associated with lower blood pressure, strengthened immune systems, lower risk of cardiovascular disease and improved sleep. …