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Manuel Perez City of San Jose Community Gardens Program 200 E Santa Clara St 9th Floor Tower San Jose, CA 95113 Ph: (408) 793-5533 Fx: (408) 292-6416 ________________________________________ From: Community_garden <community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org> on behalf of Pernitz, Sandy <sandy.pern...@seattle.gov> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 11:12 AM To: Jean Taddie; community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Research showing gardening is good for health Hi at the ACGA conference this summer in Denver, Denver Urban Gardens and Jill Litt from the University of Colorado school of Public Health presented on a study on this very subject, including elements of how cg's make communities healthy. Here is a link: http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/Apply/youridentity/Profiles/Pages/LittJ.aspx ACGA also has some links to other studies you might find helpful: https://communitygarden.org/resources/research/ Thank you for your time, Sandy Pernitz-Community Garden Coordinator sandy.pern...@seattle.gov 206-684-0284 http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/p-patch-community-gardening “More grows in the garden than the gardener sows.” -spanish proverb Public Disclosure/Disclaimer Statement Consistent with the Public Records Act, Chapter 42.56 RCW, all records within the possession of the City may be subject to a public disclosure request and may be distributed or copied. Records include and are not limited to sign-in sheets, contracts, e-mails, notes, correspondence, etc. Use of lists of individuals or directory information (including address, phone or E-mail) may not be used for commercial purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Jean Taddie [mailto:j...@necic-ohio.org] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 9:41 AM To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: [Community_garden] Research showing gardening is good for health Greetings fellow community gardeners, I am on the quest for research based evidence that gardening is good for health. Can you suggest studies or references to support this claim? For example, here’s one recent overview that includes scientific references and tags to more topics like nature deficit disorder: http://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/benefit-outside-games-zbcz1511.aspx <http://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/benefit-outside-games-zbcz1511.aspx> Here’s an excerpt: > ...European Association for the Study of Diabetes on September 15, > 2015 looked at data from 19,000 children. They found significant > associations between obesity and low levels of access to green space, > as well as not having a garden.[3] Specifically, they found that no > garden access from ages three to five years old increased the risk for > being overweight or obese at age seven by 35 percent. Low levels of > green space raised the risk by 14 percent.[3] > Can you share other resources? Thanks for any and all help, Jean Jean Taddie Community Garden/Local Foods Program Coordinator The North End Community Improvement Collaborative 199 N. Main Street Mansfield, OH 44902 www.necic-ohio.org 419-525-3101 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20151203/914edc57/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
