Wednesday, March 23, 2011

GARDEN! IT’S GOOD FOR YOU

 

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A study found that older gardeners have more zest for life. The study revealed that more than 84 percent of gardeners agreed with the statement, “I have made plans for things I’ll be doing a month or a year from now” compared with 68 percent of non-gardeners.

In addition, significant differences between gardeners and non-gardeners were also noted in the energy level statement, “I feel old and somewhat tired” — 70.9 percent of the gardeners disagreed versus 57.3 percent of non-gardeners disagreed, while 38 percent of gardeners considered themselves to be very active compared with 19.6 percent of non-gardeners.

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