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Title: Do People Live Longer among Trees?
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URL Source: http://www.icr.org/articles/view/7250/208/
Published: Oct 27, 2014
Author: Brian Thomas, M.S.
Post Date: 2014-10-27 00:11:40 by A K A Stone
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Comments: 23
Could living near trees possibly affect human health? Increasingly, studies indicate that trees can improve human health. Evolution doesn't expect this, but biblically speaking, trees and people have close ties. New research included steps to demonstrate that living longer was not linked to living among trees, but instead linked to more sensible factors "like income, race, and education," according to the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service based in Portland.1 But the researchers found that cardiovascular health clearly declined in people from very different ethnic, income, and educational backgrounds in the absence of trees. Geoffrey Donovan of the U.S. Forest Service was the lead author in the study, which appeared in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.2 The study included data from 15 states spanning 18 years. What is the real cause of these phenomena? The researchers don't know, but the data fit with the strange idea that broken trees may lead to broken hearts. In the evolutionary mindset, what survival advantage would people have from just seeing strong trees? And how can evolution explain people's health deteriorating when trees wither? In contrast to evolutionary origins myths, trees play a surprisingly strong role in actual human history. The book of Genesis uses the word "tree" 28 times, for example. Its fourth instance occurs in Genesis 2:9: "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food." So, right from the beginning, trees were identified as sources of food and of beauty.3 The Bible also says about the believer, "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon."4 Clearly, God made trees for the purpose of bringing pleasure to people.5 Are researchers uncovering evidence of this God-made link between man and trees? References * Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
For example, during the last decade, the emerald ash borer beetle parasitized and killed untold numbers of 22 species of North American ash trees across the eastern and Midwestern United States. After that happened, 15,000 additional people in those areas died of cardiovascular disease.
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
I's not hear of this before, looked it up and found: The natural range of the emerald ash borer is eastern Russia, northern China, Japan, and Korea. It is invasive outside of its native range. Its first confirmed North American detection was in June 2002 in Canton, Michigan. It is suspected, that it was introduced by overseas shipping materials. Think of all the crap that gets imported from China, and look what hitchhiked along for the ride to our forests. Protectionism would not just have protected our jobs, families and communities from destruction, it would have protected our ash trees in the bargain. Bringing that beetle here where it does not belong is waging war against nature, just the same as the sodomites do when they stick things where they don't belong.
Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good. It does me. Sometimes in the middle of the work day I will go out in the woods for a while. Then i'm ready to get back to work.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Trees are awesome, I like birds and the trees are alive with birds in the Summer. When you see a street lined with trees it looks so much nicer, and helps to cool the neighborhood when it's hot. My wife and I gather wild mushrooms this time of year, and it is the trees that make the little zones where various types of mushrooms thrive. Hesiods "Work of Days" pays tribute to trees: The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst. I believe that you are correct about the spiritual benefits we gain from trees, and spiritual health seems to be a very important component of physical health. I wonder how many references the Bible has to trees and vines? We have Palm Sunday because of a tree, and the observation that you will know a tree by its fruit. For vines, there was Naboth's vineyard, and a vine played a role in Jonah's journey to Ninevah. A book I really like is "Tree Crops" by J. Russell Smith, he goes into the potential uses of trees to provide feed for our livestock, there is tremendous potential, and that book was written sixty years ago.
Found this quote and it made me think of this thread. There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. Speech given by telephone to a Boy Scouts gathering in New York, July 25, 1924
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest...during the last decade, the emerald ash borer beetle parasitized and killed untold numbers of 22 species of North American ash trees across the eastern and Midwestern United States.
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Replies to Comment # 9. Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good. It does me. Sometimes in the middle of the work day I will go out in the woods for a while. Then i'm ready to get back to work.
#23. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good.
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