Gardening for health: a regular dose of gardening

Thompson, R.C.A.

doi:10.7861/clinmedicine.18-3-201

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“…Considering this, the four horticultural activities in this study had a relaxing effect on the elderly. Moreover, previous studies showed that blood pressure is significantly lower in the horticultural therapy program [ 27 , 51 ]. However, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were not significantly lower after every activity in this study.…”

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“…However, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were not significantly lower after every activity in this study. It might be that previous studies were mostly long-term programs which could explain the tendency for the blood pressure to decrease [ 16 , 27 , 51 ]. This study mainly focused on relatively short-term activities, so there was no significant decrease in blood pressure.…”

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Effects of Types of Horticultural Activity on the Physical and Mental State of Elderly Individuals

Cheng

Hou

et al. 2020

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This study aimed to evaluate the effect of types of horticultural activities among elderly individuals in a senior citizen learning camp. We arranged four horticultural activities: Grass Doll, Kokedama, Rocky Leaf Prints, and Herb Tasting and Smelling. Twenty-seven senior citizens (60 to 76 years) were recruited to participate. We assessed their physiological and mental state before and after the activities by measuring heart rate variability (HRV), pulse rate, blood pressure, salivary amylase activity (SAA), and Profile of Mood States (POMS). Results showed that SAA was significantly lower after the Rocky Leaf Prints, Herb Tasting and Smelling, and Kokedama. Pulse rate had a downward trend after the four horticultural activities. The ratio of low frequency (LF) over high frequency (HF) results showed that the Rocky Leaf Prints had a larger downward trend, followed by Herb Tasting and Smelling. POMS scores indicated significant improvement for Rocky Leaf Prints and Herb Tasting and Smelling. The types including artistic creation and food tasting were promising methods for psychological relaxation, stress reduction, and vigor enhancement for elderly persons. Findings showed that the impact of activities involving contact with plants was more significant in short-term activities. We hope this study can help plan the horticultural activities of the elderly in the future.

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Effects of Types of Horticultural Activity on the Physical and Mental State of Elderly Individuals

Cheng

Hou

et al. 2020

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“…In the eight municipalities, the median of farm surface per owner was 3.70 hectares (rank 2.06 Castelló de la Plana, 9.97 Benicarló). The health effects of gardening have been indicated and Benicarló has a high agricultural occupation percentage [ 79 ].…”

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Production of Vegetables and Artichokes Is Associated with Lower Cardiovascular Mortality: An Ecological Study

Arnedo-Pena

Puig-Barberà

Bellido-Blasco

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Mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), including cerebrovascular disease (CED) and ischaemic heart disease (IHD), was considerably different in eight municipalities of the province of Castellón, Community of Valencia (Spain) during the period of 1991–2011. In addition, these villages showed differences in agricultural practices and production. Since high vegetable consumption has been linked to decreased all-cause, CVD, and CED mortalities, we hypothesized that the diversity in vegetable and artichoke production, used as proxies for their consumption, could be associated with the diversity of mortality rates. In order to test our hypothesis, we estimated the smoothed standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) of CVD, CED, and IHD mortalities and a directed, age-adjusted mortality rate (AMR). We used a multilevel linear regression analysis to account for the ecological nature of our study. After adjustment, the CVD and CED SMRs were inversely associated with vegetable and artichoke production, with a reduction in SMRs for CVD: −0.19 (95% Confidence Interval [CI] −0.31 to −0.07) and −0.42 (95% CI −0.70 to −0.15) per hectare/103 inhabitants, respectively. The SMRs for CED also decreased: −0.68 (95% CI −1.61 to −0.19) and −1.47 (95% CI −2.57 to −0.36) per hectare/103 inhabitants, respectively. The SMRs for IHD were not associated with vegetal and artichoke production. When the directed AMR was used, CED mortality was consistent with the previous results, whereas the CVD mortality association was lost. Our results indicate that vegetable and artichoke production may act as protective factors of CED and CVD mortalities.

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“…In scholarly accounts concerned with 'green exercise' (Pretty et al 2007), for instance, nature is said to be beneficial when it is 'directly experienced' by (human) exercisers, that is, when people make a positive decision to go to places where there is green nature. Equally important, according to these researchers, is the 'incidental' physical activity whereupon exercise is secondary to other motives, such as commuting via bicycle through woodland environments or raising ones heartrate through gardening (Thompson 2018). In addition, Coon et al (2011) describe the mental health benefits that can be accrued through one's exposure to views of nature, whilst Yeh et al (2016) analyse the supposedly synergistic relationships between emotional wellbeing and 'green' physical activity.…”

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Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage

Cherrington

Black

2019

Int J Sociol Leis

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Through research that was conducted with mountain bike trail builders, this article explores the processes by which socio-natures or 'emergent ecologies' are formed through the assemblage of trail building, mountain bike riding and matter. In moving conversations about 'Nature' beyond essentialist readings and dualistic thinking, we consider how ecological sensibilities are reflected in the complex, lived realities of the trail building community. Specifically, we draw on Morton's (2017) notion of the 'symbiotic real' to examine how participants connect with a range of objects and non-humans, revealing a 'spectral' existence in which they take pleasure in building material features that are only partially of their creation. Such 'tuning' to the symbiotic real was manifest in the ongoing battle that the trail builders maintained with water. This battle not only emphasized the fragility of their trail construction but also the temporal significance of the environments that these creations were rendered in/with. In conclusion, we argue that these findings present an ecological awareness that views nature as neither static, inert or fixed, but instead, as a temporal 'nowness', formed from the ambiguity of being in and with nature. Ecologically, this provides a unique form of orientation that re-establishes the ambiguity between humans and nature, without privileging the former. It is set against this ecological (un)awareness that we believe a reorientation can be made to our understandings of leisure, the Anthropocene and the nature-culture dyad.

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Gardening for health: a regular dose of gardening

Cited by 67 publications

References 43 publications

Effects of Types of Horticultural Activity on the Physical and Mental State of Elderly Individuals

Effects of Types of Horticultural Activity on the Physical and Mental State of Elderly Individuals

Production of Vegetables and Artichokes Is Associated with Lower Cardiovascular Mortality: An Ecological Study

Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage

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