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> Greener neighborhoods can slow ageing process of human cells but effects of environmental racism can erase any benefits So it's a racist article. Got it. Yo
by pyinstallwoes 3y ago
> Greener neighborhoods can slow ageing process of human cells but effects of environmental racism can erase any benefits
So it's a racist article. Got it.
You know, rates.
> But new research indicates that exposure to parks, trees and other green spaces can slow the rates at which our cells age.
> Scott Ogletree, a lecturer in landscape and wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh and the report’s lead author, said that green spaces had little impact on telomere length when participants lived in low-income or segregated areas, raising new questions about the relationship between human health and the environment. “It does seem that the neighborhood context” of pollution and segregation “might be washing out any benefit we see from the green space on this particular aspect of people’s health.”