2019
DOI: 10.1177/1559827619842068
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Healthy Lifestyle Through Home Gardening: The Art of Sharing

Abstract: This article offers a solution to promoting healthy lifestyle through home gardening and how gardening activities create social capital through social interactions among family members and people within communities, through sharing. This article begins by reviewing general social, psychological, and physical health benefits of home gardening followed by barriers associated with starting a garden that include lack of time, scarce resources, insufficient knowledge and skills, and inadequate space. This article a… Show more

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“…Walking or running in nature can result in less sadness [43], tension, confusion and anger [45], while cognitive capacity [47] as well as energy, such as vitality and enthusiasm, can increase [43,45]. Community gardening among the elderly [48] and children [49] can lead to physical and social benefits [50]. People visiting green spaces and having a stronger relatedness to nature more frequently experience better social cohesion [28], and activities in green spaces stimulate personal development, e.g., increased body appreciation [33].…”
Section: Nature Relatedness and Its Association With Wellbeing And Pementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Walking or running in nature can result in less sadness [43], tension, confusion and anger [45], while cognitive capacity [47] as well as energy, such as vitality and enthusiasm, can increase [43,45]. Community gardening among the elderly [48] and children [49] can lead to physical and social benefits [50]. People visiting green spaces and having a stronger relatedness to nature more frequently experience better social cohesion [28], and activities in green spaces stimulate personal development, e.g., increased body appreciation [33].…”
Section: Nature Relatedness and Its Association With Wellbeing And Pementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Community gardening in the elderly [48] and children [49] can lead to physical and social benefits, but no differences in health and wellbeing can be found for the elderly compared to younger gardeners [50].…”
Section: Nature Relatedness and Its Impact On Wellbeingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A positive relationship between gardening and psychosocial and physical health benefits is clearly evident. Community gardening has also been found to be positively associated with a population's lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes, such as increased consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) [6][7][8][9][10], physical activity [6,8], self-rated health [7], psychological well-being [6,10], and social interaction [6,7,10,11].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…"Healthy lifestyle through home gardening" published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine shows how gardening can generate social interactions among family members and the social, psychological, and physical health benefits of home gardening. With schools closed, having time for gardening becomes easier and this activity bonds individuals together, encourages a healthy lifestyle in children, brings joy, and healing to them and build up social relationships, trust, and sharing [8]. Simultaneously, reading books helps in the intellectual growth of a children when they are gradually taught to critically analyze the moral of a story.…”
Section: Peer To Peer Social and Language Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%