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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...growing group of psychologists believes that many of our modern-day mental problems, including depression, stress and anxiety, can be traced in part to society's increasing alienation from nature. The solution? Get outside and enjoy it. (See the top 10 odd environmental ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Eco-Therapy' for Environmental Depression | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...hadn’t seen it since my freshman year. There were no harried, sleep-deprived students hustling to class; no stumbling revelers on their way to the River, braving the New England winter in hopes of forgetting a week’s worth of stress. There were only dimly-lit walkways surrounded by trees and history, a picturesque tableau that someone with an engaging and fulfilling college career ahead of them would find easy to imagine...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: Throwback | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...results also shed light on how risk factors like stress can increase the vulnerability of the respiratory system to environmental pollution or allergens. Because asthma involves inflammation in the airways in response to particulates that enter from the air, a separate factor that also increases the body's inflammatory response - like stress - can help create especially fertile conditions for asthma to develop. So a child who feels anxiety in response to parental stress, for example, may already have inflammation in his airways, which makes him more likely to develop asthma because of exposure to environmental pollutants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

While McConnell and his group did not specifically measure stress levels in the study's participants - it's difficult to get a reliable reading in such a large number of youngsters quickly - other studies have shown that parental stress translates directly with more-anxious kids. McConnell hopes that these findings will spur additional studies to investigate why, for example, asthma rates tend to be higher among lower socioeconomic groups. "There are a lot of potential reasons why poverty might be associated with asthma," he says, including that poorer families tend to live in more highly polluted, densely packed urban areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...there might also be a psychological contribution, which his study has highlighted. "It's not poverty itself but something about poverty that increases the risk of asthma, and we are suggesting that stress is another exposure we ought to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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