Role of access to parks and markets with anthropometric measurements, biological markers, and a healthy lifestyle

Mena, Carlos; Fuentes, Eduardo; Ormazábal, Yony; Palomo‐Vélez, Gonzalo; Palomo, Iván

doi:10.1080/09603123.2014.958134

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“…Despite the lack of evidence of our results for obesity, other studies found an inverse relationship between the increased availability of green spaces and obesity [27]. We hypothesize two main reasons that could explain why we did not find an association between the density of green spaces and obesity.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Previous studies support the idea that greater availability of green spaces around home reduces blood pressure in adults [31,32], especially by harm reduction (e.g., exposure to noise or air pollution) [33], psychological and physiological stress alleviation, increased social cohesion, or physical activity [15]. Similarly, we found a relationship between green spaces and hypercholesterolemia, consistent with other previous studies [27,31,34], that suggested that green spaces could reduce cholesterol levels via physical activity, harm reduction or psychosocial pathways. However, we did not test the mediating pathways through which green spaces might reduce blood pressure or cholesterol levels.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Density of Green Spaces and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the City of Madrid: The Heart Healthy Hoods Study

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the density of green spaces at different buffer sizes (300, 500, 1000 and 1500 m) and cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes) as well as to study if the relationship is different for males and females. We conducted cross-sectional analyses using the baseline measures of the Heart Healthy Hoods study (N = 1625). We obtained data on the outcomes from clinical diagnoses, as well as anthropometric and blood sample measures. Exposure data on green spaces density at different buffer sizes were derived from the land cover distribution map of Madrid. Results showed an association between the density of green spaces within 300 and 500 m buffers with high cholesterol and diabetes, and an association between the density of green spaces within 1500 m buffer with hypertension. However, all of these associations were significant only in women. Study results, along with other evidence, may help policy-makers creating healthier environments that could reduce cardiovascular disease burden and reduce gender health inequities. Further research should investigate the specific mechanisms behind the differences by gender and buffer size of the relationship between green spaces and cardiovascular risk factors.

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Density of Green Spaces and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the City of Madrid: The Heart Healthy Hoods Study

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“…Most alarmingly, discretionary foods (often energy rich food and drinks high in saturated fats, sugars and/or salt) contributed 39% of energy intake for children and young people during 2011-2012 [103]. It is commonly accepted that diet plays a crucial role in chronic disease and obesity prevention and has been linked with environmental factors (e.g., distance to parks and markets) [79,105]. Due to lifestyle choices and the limitations of the current food system, obesity and chronic diseases will increasingly be a burden on the medical system and challenge the sustainability of cities.…”

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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“…While green space and local biodiversity are associated with health and vitality [96][97][98] (and biodiversity losses/environmental degradation with ill-health [99][100][101]), these links require complex considerations. For example, closer residential proximity to green spaces and greater access to open spaces and safe, local parks, is associated with healthier dietary habits; however, this could be explained by experience through opportunity-more green spaces and parks may simply be a surrogate marker for lower density of fast-food outlets, convenience stores and an unhealthy food environment in general [102][103][104]. At this stage it is unknown if those scoring high on nature relatedness scales avoid ultra-processed foods, consume more fermented foods and/or maintain healthier dietary habits in general; however, a greater understanding of the emotional/cognitive drivers of a sustainable planetary health diet (a plant-based diet with minimal emphasis on animal products [105,106]) will require a closer look at nature relatedness.…”

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Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

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2020

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Extensive research underscores that we interpret the world through metaphors; moreover, common metaphors are a useful means to enhance the pursuit of personal and collective goals. In the context of planetary health—defined as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political and otherwise)—one enduring metaphor can be found in the concept of “Spaceship Earth”. Although not without criticism, the term “Spaceship Earth” has been useful to highlight both resource limitations and the beauty and fragility of delicate ecosystems that sustain life. Rene Dubos, who helped popularize the term, underscored the need for an exposome perspective, one that examines the total accumulated environmental exposures (both detrimental and beneficial) that predict the biological responses of the “total organism to the total environment” over time. In other words, how large-scale environmental changes affect us all personally, albeit in individualized ways. This commentary focuses the ways in which microbes, as an essential part of all ecosystems, provide a vital link between personal and planetary systems, and mediate the biopsychosocial aspects of our individualized experience—and thus health—over our life course journey. A more fine-grained understanding of these dynamics and our power to change them, personally and collectively, lies at the core of restoring “ecosystems balance” for person, place and planet. In particular, restoring human connectedness to the natural world, sense of community and shared purpose must occur in tandem with technological solutions, and will enhance individual empowerment for personal well-being, as well as our collective potential to overcome our grand challenges. Such knowledge can help shape the use of metaphor and re-imagine solutions and novel ways for restoration or rewilding of ecosystems, and the values, behaviors and attitudes to light the path toward exiting the Anthropocene.

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Role of access to parks and markets with anthropometric measurements, biological markers, and a healthy lifestyle

Abstract: The results of this study suggest the importance of the role of environmental factors such as parks and markets in the development of cardiovascular risk.

Cited by 26 publications

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Density of Green Spaces and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the City of Madrid: The Heart Healthy Hoods Study

Density of Green Spaces and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the City of Madrid: The Heart Healthy Hoods Study

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

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