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Foundations of Health

Part 7: Nature

We all have likely experienced positive feedback from getting out into nature. These sensations are often our body giving us the feedback that we enjoy being outside, and these sensations have been studied to prove there are benefits of getting out into nature.

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Citations:
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  3. Rhodes LE, Webb AR, Fraser HI, Kift R, Durkin MT, Allan D, O’Brien SJ, Vail A, Berry JL. Recommended summer sunlight exposure levels can produce sufficient (> or =20 ng ml(-1)) but not the proposed optimal (> or =32 ng ml(-1)) 25(OH)D levels at UK latitudes. J Invest Dermatol. 2010 May;130(5):1411-8. doi: 10.1038/jid.2009.417. Epub 2010 Jan 14. PMID: 20072137.
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