Category: Time Outside is Essential to Overall Health- Research
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Trust For Public Land
We Believe Everyone Should Have Access to the Outdoors We create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. The outdoors are essential to our well-being, but unfortunately, access to green spaces isn’t equal. Millions of people in the U.S. don’t have a quality park close to home. What’s more, …
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Our Commitment to Breaking Down Barriers Caused by Racial Inequality
BestStart Washington is committed to ensuring that all children and youth in Washington state have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. We recognize that entrenched structural racism is an unacceptable barrier to child health and potential. In our pediatric practices, we see first-hand the negative health outcomes that arise from racism including increased infant …
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Exploring Nature From Your Doorstep
During this extraordinary COVID Pandemic you have created a schedule for your family. It includes outdoor time, but what can you actually do? Nature exploration! Even though we have a Stay-At-Home order, with social distance we can still enjoy nature. Governor Inslee said: “If you feel like going for a walk, gardening, going for a …
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Nature Play Kits Bring Smiles to Little Faces
A bag to collect pine cones and rocks. A bug jar to safely view insect pals. A kite to send soaring in the sky. A child’s beautiful smile. In my practice as a pediatrician, I see a range of emotions in my clinic. When a little face lights up, it makes my day. My colleagues …
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Access to Parks and Green Space Improve Health
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.” – John Burroughs We often think of parks and green space in terms of recreation. More than 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in urban and suburban areas, and we spend an increasing amount of …
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3 Steps to Boost Outdoor Time — and Health
Project Nature is in the news! Click here to read Drs Pooja Tandoon and Kyle Yasuda’s OpEd in the Seattle Times. Op Ed, reprinted below. Kids today spend less time outside than any previous generation. That’s probably not a surprise — we live in a world filled with big screens, small screens, screens that attach …
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Nature for Health
Nature and Health seeks to understand the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work to translate that understanding into programs, practices, policies, and the design of healthcare, educational, and community settings that benefit all people and nature. Nature and Health is a collaboration of nearly 400 researchers, healthcare providers, policymakers, and community members …
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The Time is Now for Project Nature
Welcome to Project Nature As a pediatrician, I am passionate about the health benefits of a childhood spent in nature. These benefits are many—increased curiosity, attention, school performance, and pro-social behaviors as well as lower risk to develop obesity, ADD/HD, anxiety and depression. Children who are connected to nature are more willing to protect nature …
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Parks and Your Health
We often think of parks and green space in terms of recreation. More than 80% of the U.S. population lives in urban and suburban areas, and we spend an increasing amount of time connected to electronics and detached from nature. We visit parks for fun – a picnic, a playground, or a walk in the …