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Walking in nature may benefit ageing brains, SCMP column says

The column is the hundred-and-first instalment in a series on dementia, drawing on one writer's walks with their mother; the sofa remains neutral.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA column from the South China Morning Post suggests that walking in nature may do more for ageing brains than previously thought.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThis desk will not look away.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's the hundred-and-first instalment in a series on dementia, written by someone who cared for their mother.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a personal column about walking in a garden.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWalking together, around the garden and in the fields beyond it. Terrain, Kenji. Fields. The writer says the mother sometimes resisted.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentShe said she was tired. She said her legs were sore. That's a person who doesn't feel like going out.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA formal refusal, delivered in writing, citing sore legs. I have received warmer ones from ministries that did not want to meet me.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGloria, it's a walk.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd the findings are only a suggestion. Nature, it says, may help. May. Every administration I have covered has hidden behind that word.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe whole story is that going outside might be good for you.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYour phone has been telling you that for years, and you've dismissed every notification.

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe sofa has issued no statement. It never does.

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