Friday, May 4, 2012

Arturo Garcia Experience of a Natural Setting 2


Last Friday I was at the journal club. We were discussing a paper on obesity when, as usual the topic began to sway as a usual ( at the direction of dr. burke) the causes of obesity then lastly, the last time that we felt at peace or were satisfied, most people who gave an example, gave an example where they were in a nature setting. One person said the last time they were completely satisfied and at peace was when he was fishing, anther said it was when she was driving the mountains. I was left thinking about this novel concept, maybe nature has a therapeutic effect on us. We are not built for modern life, our eyes were designed to see thing in the distance, not inches in front of us. We need sunlight not florescent light to synthesize vitamin d . maybe those people were wrong, wilderness/nature  has sacred powers not because it is a foreign place, but because it id better for our selves than the modern world we have created. 

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