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Title: Do People Live Longer among Trees?
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URL Source: http://www.icr.org/articles/view/7250/208/
Published: Oct 27, 2014
Author: Brian Thomas, M.S.
Post Date: 2014-10-27 00:11:40 by A K A Stone
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Comments: 23
Could living near trees possibly affect human health? Increasingly, studies indicate that trees can improve human health. Evolution doesn't expect this, but biblically speaking, trees and people have close ties.
New research included steps to demonstrate that living longer was not linked to living among trees, but instead linked to more sensible factors "like income, race, and education," according to the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service based in Portland.1 But the researchers found that cardiovascular health clearly declined in people from very different ethnic, income, and educational backgrounds in the absence of trees.
Geoffrey Donovan of the U.S. Forest Service was the lead author in the study, which appeared in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.2 The study included data from 15 states spanning 18 years.
For example, during the last decade, the emerald ash borer beetle parasitized and killed untold numbers of 22 species of North American ash trees across the eastern and Midwestern United States. After that happened, 15,000 additional people in those areas died of cardiovascular disease.
What is the real cause of these phenomena? The researchers don't know, but the data fit with the strange idea that broken trees may lead to broken hearts.
In the evolutionary mindset, what survival advantage would people have from just seeing strong trees? And how can evolution explain people's health deteriorating when trees wither?
In contrast to evolutionary origins myths, trees play a surprisingly strong role in actual human history. The book of Genesis uses the word "tree" 28 times, for example. Its fourth instance occurs in Genesis 2:9: "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food." So, right from the beginning, trees were identified as sources of food and of beauty.3
The Bible also says about the believer, "His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon."4 Clearly, God made trees for the purpose of bringing pleasure to people.5 Are researchers uncovering evidence of this God-made link between man and trees?
References
- Tree and human health may be linked. Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service press release, January 16, 2013.
- Donovan, G. et al. 2013. The Relationship Between Trees and Human Health. Journal of Preventative Medicine. 44 (2):139-145.
- This biblical link deepens when one considers that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, "whom they slew and hanged on a tree" (Acts 10:39), is mankind's only hope of eternal pleasure. "In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore" (Psalm 16:11).
- Hosea 14:6.
- Of course, the right response to this provision of pleasure is to praise God.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research. (1 image)
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
...during the last decade, the emerald ash borer beetle parasitized and killed untold numbers of 22 species of North American ash trees across the eastern and Midwestern United States.
I's not hear of this before, looked it up and found:
The natural range of the emerald ash borer is eastern Russia, northern China, Japan, and Korea. It is invasive outside of its native range. Its first confirmed North American detection was in June 2002 in Canton, Michigan. It is suspected, that it was introduced by overseas shipping materials.
Think of all the crap that gets imported from China, and look what hitchhiked along for the ride to our forests. Protectionism would not just have protected our jobs, families and communities from destruction, it would have protected our ash trees in the bargain. Bringing that beetle here where it does not belong is waging war against nature, just the same as the sodomites do when they stick things where they don't belong.
#3. To: nativist nationalist (#2)
I's not hear of this before, looked it up and found:
Around here everyone is losing their ash trees. I don't think my Dad has any left. One guy I know told me he found some powder stuff he mixes up on the internet. His trees are doing good so far.
#4. To: nativist nationalist (#2)
Think of all the crap that gets imported from China, and look what hitchhiked along for the ride to our forests. Protectionism would not just have protected our jobs, families and communities from destruction, it would have protected our ash trees in the bargain.
I support tariffs on foreign goods. Also support them not having to be approved by the WTO. China should have very high tariffs.
But we should still trade with other countries.
You live up to your screen name. :)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#3)
Around here everyone is losing their ash trees. I don't think my Dad has any left. One guy I know told me he found some powder stuff he mixes up on the internet. His trees are doing good so far.
That is sad, you would think the lesson would have been learned with other pests that have been imported in the past. What part of the country are you in?
#6. To: nativist nationalist (#5)
Ohio.
#7. To: nativist nationalist, cz82 (#5)
I expect them to be wiped out. What about you CZ? Ash trees that is.
#8. To: A K A Stone (#4)
I support tariffs on foreign goods. Also support them not having to be approved by the WTO. China should have very high tariffs.But we should still trade with other countries.
I think a general rule should be that we can afford to import no more than we earn through our exports. This free trade nonsense has been awful for America. It is the economic equivalent of sodomy, just look all across our nation at the communities that have been crippled by unrestrained imports. The tragedy of places like Youngstown Ohio has been repeated ad naseum all across the length and breadth of our land. It is madness.
#9. To: (#2)
Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good. It does me. Sometimes in the middle of the work day I will go out in the woods for a while. Then i'm ready to get back to work.
#10. To: nativist nationalist (#8)
I think a general rule should be that we can afford to import no more than we earn through our exports. This free trade nonsense has been awful for America. It is the economic equivalent of sodomy, just look all across our nation at the communities that have been crippled by unrestrained imports. The tragedy of places like Youngstown Ohio has been repeated ad naseum all across the length and breadth of our land. It is madness.
That and the laziness that the welfare state breeds.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#6)
Ohio.
Wow, I replied to your earlier post and used Youngstown as an example, and it turns out you are in Ohio! Free trade transformed the Arsenal of Democracy into the rust belt.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good. It does me. Sometimes in the middle of the work day I will go out in the woods for a while. Then i'm ready to get back to work.
Trees are awesome, I like birds and the trees are alive with birds in the Summer. When you see a street lined with trees it looks so much nicer, and helps to cool the neighborhood when it's hot. My wife and I gather wild mushrooms this time of year, and it is the trees that make the little zones where various types of mushrooms thrive. Hesiods "Work of Days" pays tribute to trees:
The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst.
I believe that you are correct about the spiritual benefits we gain from trees, and spiritual health seems to be a very important component of physical health. I wonder how many references the Bible has to trees and vines? We have Palm Sunday because of a tree, and the observation that you will know a tree by its fruit. For vines, there was Naboth's vineyard, and a vine played a role in Jonah's journey to Ninevah.
A book I really like is "Tree Crops" by J. Russell Smith, he goes into the potential uses of trees to provide feed for our livestock, there is tremendous potential, and that book was written sixty years ago.
#13. To: A K A Stone (#1)
"Thought this might be interesting to you."
I am still into forestry, but my focus is currently on stopping the slaughter of dolphins at Taipi, Japan and freeing all imprisoned cetaceans from entities like Sea World.
~ Helen Keller
#14. To: A K A Stone (#7)
Don't have any, I have planted Red leafed maples, weeping willows, Japanese maples and decorative flowering trees. The only trees on the lot when I bought it were Sassafras along an old fence line. Since that was where we wanted to build the house I just got rid of all of them, none of them looked any good anyway. The only other thing on the lot at that time was winter wheat with some old corn shocks left over from the year before.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
#15. To: Ferret Mike (#13)
I am still into forestry, but my focus is currently on stopping the slaughter of dolphins at Taipi, Japan
Why Japan? You have a friend in Japan?
#16. To: Ferret Mike (#13)
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
I care about whales and dolphins. They are non-human beings with language and culture and should not be imprisoned in places like Sea World, or killed for their meat/
~ Mike McCarthy
#18. To: Ferret Mike (#17)
I went to Panama Beach this summer. A pack of about 7 or 8 dolphins swam just a few feet from me. I tried to catch up with them but I couldn't keep up. Obviously they swim for a living and I don't.
I don't think keeping dolphins in captivity where they are fed and cared for is a bad thing. People learn from them and the people who care for them generally take good care of them and love them.
It is no more inhumane then having a ferret in captivity.
People eat meat so I guess it is ok to eat them as long as they aren't threatened with extinction. As long as the herds are large so to speak.
I wouldn't eat one though. I like them.
#19. To: A K A Stone (#18)
They have brains that rival our's in size, cortical surface area, weight and complexity. They are extremely intelligent and we should be given the same status as humans for freedom and respect of life.
Besides, check out the mercury levels in the flesh of apex predators like dolphins that live in the shallow coastal waters of Japan. They are very high and actually make the meat very dangerous to eat. Especially by pregnant women and children,
~ Mike McCarthy
#20. To: Ferret Mike (#19)
They have brains that rival our's in size, cortical surface area, weight and complexity. They are extremely intelligent and we should be given the same status as humans for freedom and respect of life.
I'm not disputing that they are intelligent. But do you watch a lot of cartoons with animals that talk?
#21. To: A K A Stone (#20)
I never watch cartoons. Because the frequencies of their vocalizations and hearing we need a computer interface to be able to talk to them in their language. Another reason is because they speak and hear in water and we do the same in air.
Dolphins live in groups made up mainly of family members called pods. They are very social and very much our peers in many ways. If you get a chance watch the movie 'Blackfish.' It is a good film that deals with the problem of captivity of Orcas. I believe it is on Netflicks.
~ Mike McCarthy
#22. To: A K A Stone (#20)
Researchers in the United States and Great Britain have made a significant breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language in which a series of eight objects have been sonically identified by dolphins. Team leader, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com, ‘spoke’ to dolphins with the dolphin’s own sound picture words. Dolphins in two separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal “sono-pictorial” language of communication.The team was able to teach the dolphins simple and complex sentences involving nouns and verbs, revealing that dolphins comprehend elements of human language, as well as having a complex visual language of their own. Kassewitz commented, “We are beginning to understand the visual aspects of their language, for example in the identification of eight dolphin visual sounds for nouns, recorded by hydrophone as the dolphins echolocated on a range of submersed plastic objects.”
The British member of the research team, John Stuart Reid, used a CymaScope instrument, a device that makes sound visible, to gain a better understanding of how dolphins see with sound. He imaged a series of the test objects as sono-pictorially created by one of the research dolphins. (more in link)
~ Mike McCarthy
#23. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Wouldn't you agree with the article. When you get out in nature around the trees. That is just makes you feel good.
Found this quote and it made me think of this thread.
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
Speech given by telephone to a Boy Scouts gathering in New York, July 25, 1924
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