Hugging Trees is Healthy and Good For You!
Laugh if you will but it has been proven many times over that visiting a forest makes one slow down about ten paces and that just helps the overall body's immune system. It strengthens it by increasing activity and even will kill a number of cancer cells. You feel good when you walk in the forest or just being around trees, you cannot help it. If you want to get all scientific about it, trees carry a compound called Taxol, found in many prescribed drugs; coming from mainly the yew tree.