Perspective: 5 reasons to grow a vegetable garden, beyond the vegetables
, but if you’ve ever simply put your phone down and gone for a walk, you know exactly what it feels like.
I could find, published in 2020, found that overall, gardening is — and I’m paraphrasing here — pretty good, with a smorgasbord of benefits for health and well-being. Little of this is ironclad, but weigh it against the harms, which are … wait … there are none! Easiest risk/benefit calculation ever.While I can envision a kind of gardening strenuous enough to make you break a sweat, that’s not the kind I do.
The discovery that the adult brain is still plastic — it can continue to change and adapt — has opened up a brave new rationale for learning new things as we get older. It’s reasonable to conclude, from the large body of evidence on how acquiring a new skill can affect cognition, that aging brains — and every single one of us has one — thrive on fresh challenges.The late neurologist Oliver Sacks has written about this in a way that is moving and compelling in several books and a 2011.
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