OUTDOOR RESOLUTIONS: HEALTHIER - Mix one part 
sunshine with two parts fresh air and 30 minutes of 
physical activity and you have the recipe for a healthier 
New Year ... details coming up on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Healthier ... happier ... smarter: That's what TPW Outreach 
and Education Director Nancy Herron says you will be 
when you commit to spending time outdoors. 

03 -- There's a whole bevy of benefits from being outdoors.

Over the next several days Nancy joins us and suggests 
resolutions you might embrace for a healthier, happier, and 
even smarter New Year. Today we focus on health.
 
60 -- One of the most fun resolutions is to get a little dose of 
"vitamin N" every day - and that's vitamin Nature. Being outdoors 
in nature, even 30 minutes a day, will make a big difference. If 
you get outside and take a nice walk, a stroll in the park. If you 
break it up even in three ten minute chunks, it just helps in a lot 
of ways physically. It reduces your stress. I have seen you taking 
a little stroll around the building before. I do try and take a little 
break. And you know we actually know that little walk around the 
block - wherever it is - there's nature everywhere. There's nearby 
nature in a city block. Just getting outdoors, just getting a little 
fresh air - even if you're checking out the sky and making some 
shapes out of the clouds: it's a good break for you and gets you 
physically moving. And that's the biggest problem we have is 
we're just not moving around. So, let's get outside and move. And 
it's as simple as thirty minutes a day, three ten minute breaks. 
Give yourself some recess and have fun.

Tomorrow it's a brand New Year, and we get happy.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.








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