{"id":543,"date":"2011-03-19T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-03-19T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T03:39:16","slug":"gardening-is-good-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/2011\/03\/19\/gardening-is-good-for-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening is good for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-medium wp-image-544\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-544\" title=\"plantation-gardening\" src=\"http:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plantation-gardening-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plantation-gardening-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plantation-gardening.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>London, March 20 (IANS) Tending your garden can make you feel younger and happier, say experts.<\/p>\n<p>Gardeners are also more likely to be organised and optimistic than non-gardeners, they said.<\/p>\n<p>A regular spot of gardening gives the over-50s more of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zest for life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d than those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have have an inclination for it, express.co.uk reported citing researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from two universities in Texas analysed about 300 people over 50, dividing them into gardeners and non- gardeners.<\/p>\n<p>They found that 71 percent of gardeners said they did not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153feel old\u00e2\u20ac\u009d compared with 57 percent of non-gardeners.<\/p>\n<p>The gardeners also felt more energetic, got more exercise and were shown to be more mentally active.<\/p>\n<p>There were also higher scores for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life satisfaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d among gardeners while they were also more likely to eat fresh fruit and vegetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, March 20 (IANS) Tending your garden can make you feel younger and happier, say experts. Gardeners are also more likely to be organised and optimistic than non-gardeners, they said. A regular spot of gardening gives the over-50s more of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zest for life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d than those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have have an inclination for it, express.co.uk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikhil.kunder.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}