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Healthy Hearts Healthy Parks

If the brain benefits from time spent outdoors, what about its storied counterpart, The Heart? Consistent research findings conclude visiting nearby nature lowers blood pressure, reduces headache and fatigue, improves mood and hastens recovery from stress. A recent study on hypertension compared elderly research participants who spent seven days in a city with another group spending a…

"Just for today I am grateful for being alive and to have this quiet space."

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