Crowded cities: health concerns grow

Crowded cities

Crowded cities: health concerns grow as Brits admit to spending less than an hour a day outside. Two in five (38%) adults in the UK spend less than an hour a day outdoors, with lack of access to green spaces having a knock-on effect on mental and physical health. This is according to new research […]

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Diminishing health benefits of living in cities for children and teens

children

The advantages of living in cities for children and adolescents’ healthy growth and development are shrinking across much of the world, according to a new global analysis of trends in child and adolescent height and body mass index (BMI) led by Imperial College London and published in Nature. The research, by a global consortium of […]

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