Health Benefits of Walking in Nature: A Randomized Controlled Study Under Conditions of Real-Life Stress KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2018. We investigated the effects of recreational exposure to the natural environment on mood and psychophysiological responses to stress. We hypothesized that walking in nature has restorative effects over and above the effects of exposure to nature scenes (viewing nature on TV) or physical exercise alone (walking on a treadmill in a gym) and that these effects are greater when participants were expected to be more stressed. ...