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Wikipedia: Green exercise

Encyclopedia article on physical activity performed in natural environments—parks, woodland, coastlines—often overlapping popular “nature and health” discourse; useful orientation next to shinrin-yoku trials, not a substitute for PubMed effect sizes.

Scope

Summarises deliberate movement outdoors in green or blue natural settings as a research and public-health theme—adjacent to shinrin-yoku (often slower, sensory-first) and broader greenspace exposure syntheses.

Evidence discipline

Wikipedia may cite mood, self-esteem, and small physiological study threads; pooled SBP/DBP, salivary cortisol, HF-HRV, and GRADE judgments belong to PubMed-linked meta-analyses on Forest bathing (forest-bathing), Daily sunlight (daily-sunlight), and Twohig-Bennett greenspace rows—not article prose alone.

Pairing in this wiki

  • wikipedia-nature-therapy-overview / wikipedia-shinrin-yoku-overview — vocabulary for guided forest exposure and related modalities.
  • wikipedia-walking-overview — generic gait / NEAT when the same outdoor session is framed as steps rather than forest therapy.

Outcomes

  • Heart Rate Variability
    Tertiary article: no primary quantitative outcomes; use linked PubMed forest-bathing, greenspace, and walking trials for pooled biomarker and mood endpoints.
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