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Pamela Anderson
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For a woman who spent the ’90s in the most famous red swimsuit on television, Pamela Anderson’s life today looks almost radically simple. No makeup on the red carpet, a garden on Vancouver Island, and a morning ritual that requires no gym, no trainer and no equipment. She has described it in a single sentence. Researchers have spent decades explaining why it works.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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What is Pamela Anderson’s morning habit?<\/b><\/h2>\n

She walks. Every day. “I walk every morning; I have to get fresh air, no matter the weather,”<\/strong> Anderson told NewBeauty in February 2026, as reported by Woman & Home<\/a>. For her, it is as much about the mind as the body: nature, she said, “has reset me time and again, even in my hardest of times.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of her routine follows the same logic. Speaking to People in July 2026, she explained that her garden doubles as her workout: “It’s a good workout!” she said, adding, “I think it’s better than going to the gym, doing garden work,” according to The List<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is daily movement really better than the gym?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Not better in every way, but far more powerful than most people assume. Scientists have a name for all the activity we do outside of formal exercise, from walking to gardening to carrying groceries: NEAT, or non-exercise activity thermogenesis.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a landmark study published in Science<\/em> in 1999, Mayo Clinic endocrinologist James Levine and his team overfed 16 volunteers by 1,000 extra calories a day for eight weeks. Some gained almost 16 pounds, others barely 2. The difference came largely from NEAT: some participants spontaneously moved more, burning up to 692 extra calories a day. “Those people who had the greatest increase in NEAT gained the least fat, and those who had the least change gained the most,” Levine said, as reported by ScienceDaily<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why the “fresh air” part matters too<\/b><\/h2>\n

Anderson’s insistence on walking outside, not on a treadmill, also has research behind it. In a 2015 study published in PNAS<\/em>, Stanford researchers led by Gregory Bratman compared people who took a 90-minute walk in a natural area with others who walked along a busy road. Only the nature walkers showed reduced activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex, a brain region linked to rumination, the repetitive negative thinking associated with depression, according to KurzweilAI<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This finding is exciting because it demonstrates the impact of nature experience on an aspect of emotion regulation,” Bratman said. It is a scientific way of describing what Anderson calls being “reset.”<\/span><\/p>\n

How to borrow her routine<\/b><\/h2>\n