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What happens to our bodies when we touch grass

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69% Informative

Kathy Willis is the author of Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling , Hearing , and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health.

The urge to touch things is one we have from a very early age, she says.

Maybe experiencing nature through the medium of tactile interaction with leaves, bark and petals is good for us.

Experiments suggest that touching plants has an impact on our physical and mental well-being.

Touching the living leaf of a living pothos plant resulted in a significant calming response compared to touching the other materials.

This was a simple experiment with a small number of participants just 14 .

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63

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59

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13

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informal

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English

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50

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long-living

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