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Green Surroundings Not necessarily encourage us to exercise |
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Health
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Written by Team Josh
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
If you think that the nice neighborhood park will encourage you to jog daily, think again. A new study, in fact, contends that people with more greens around them walk and cycle less often and for shorter periods.
"In this study we investigated whether a green living environment encourages people to undertake physical activity.”We found there was no relationship between the amount of green space in people's environment and whether they played sports, walked or cycled for leisure." said Jolanda Maas, who led the study.
In this study the researcher found out that people living near green spaces walked less often, probably as their shops and facilities were further away, so they relied more heavily on the use of their car.
Apparently closeness of destinations is more important for walking and cycling during leisure time in the Netherlands than availability of green space.
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