© LUISA RIVERA FOR YALE ENVIRONMENT 360
Precisely 120 minutes.
In a study of 20,000 people, a team led by Mathew White of the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter, found that people who spent two hours a week in green spaces — local parks or other natural environments, either all at once or spaced over several visits — were substantially more likely to report good health and psychological well-being than those who don't. Two hours was a hard boundary: The study, published last June, showed there were no benefits for people who didn't meet that threshold.
The effects were robust, cutting across different occupations, ethnic groups, people from rich and poor areas, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
Comment: If you ever needed more evidence that the anti-meat brigade are, at the top echelons, a bunch of crazy people, here it is. That academics, who one would hope would be open to contradictory evidence and opinions in the pursuit of truth, would go into overdrive using such under-handed tactics to censor evidence that runs counter to their position is truly eye-opening. And as pointed out above, the old adage to "follow the money" never fails to bring a blurry picture into focus.
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