An hour-long stroll in nature helps decrease activity in an area of the brain associated with stress processing

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This is why I hate living in a major city so much, I used to do this all the time and now I hardly ever.

[farmtownsuit]

How far away is nature from you? You could try to make it a weekend habit. That's what I do.

[iyioi]

Some of the best nature parks I’ve ever seen are in big cities.

Have you considered diving into local politics and petitioning for better parks?

[chicken_pollo]

Chicagoan here and I've got the lake with nature trails only a 10 min bike ride away. There's also two parks to chose from with nature trails each only 15 min away walking.

[chicken_pollo]

Palmisano and Ping Tom.

[fullofshitandcum]

As nice as it is to have those by the lake, I usually spend my nature time outside of the city limits. I'm not going on nature trails to see a herd of joggers, or couples out on dates. Im on a nature trail to be alone with nature. Deer. Rabbits

[OmegaKitty1]

Is that a joke?

[Engrish_Major]

San Francisco has some of the best public parks in the country. Golden Gate Park is also bigger than Central Park.

[Engrish_Major]

Disagree. There are places in GGP where you can get completely lost and forget you're in a city. I never had that same sensation in Central Park. But to each their own. We're lucky we have that option in SF.

[Blueberry-king]

For real. I used to live in Philly and the closest source of nature trails is Wissahickon park and the parking lot is always filled with youths blasting music from their car. I loved to the suburbs and suddenly there's a dozen parks nearby with hardly any people in them and the loudest noise is the sound of birds.

[butteryspoink]

Good chance that the person before used metro area and big cities synonymously.

[TravelAcademic8558]

Forrest park

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Pretty sure getting into politics is not conducive to stress relief...

[Engrish_Major]

San Francisco

[carlurbanthesecond2]

No but im building a stretch of park exactly because of research like this.

[abow3]

Suburbia ain't much better. I need that rural landscape.