from journal Environmental Health Perspectives
Living green may just have been given a
new definition. Researchers at Harvard
School of Public Health and Brigham and
Women’s Hospital used data from more
than one hundred thousand women in the
Nurse’s Health Study to show those who
live in homes surrounded by more
vegetation have lower death rates.
Women living in the greenest surroundings
had twelve percent lower death rate than
those living in homes with the least green
areas. Researchers wrote in the journal
Environmental Health Perspectives that
women living in areas with the most
vegetation tended to have one-third lower
rate of respiratory disease and thirteen
percent lower risk of death from cancer.
The health benefit of planting vegetation
adds to already-known environmental
benefits.