Gardening improves happiness and ’emotional wellbeing’ more than physical exercise

Gardening is ‘good for the soul’: Digging, weeding and planting improve happiness and ’emotional wellbeing’ even more than physical exercise or eating out, study finds Volunteers reported on their emotional wellbeing while doing different activities The Princeton University study had people cycle, eat out, walk and do gardening They found gardening for vegetables is more … Read more

Spending time in the garden improves health ‘as much as living in a wealthy area’ 

Spending time relaxing in your garden or tending to the flowerbeds improves mental and physical wellbeing ‘as much as living in a wealthy area’ Exeter and RHS researchers studied survey results from  7,814 people Found 71 per cent of individuals who used their garden were in good health This figure dropped to just 61 per cent for … Read more

Eating meat improves mental health, study claims  

Eating meat IMPROVES mental health and one in three vegetarians are depressed, study claims Study found vegetarians are twice as likely to take medication for mental illness   Scientists found vegetarians are nearly three times as likely to consider suicide Researchers reviewed 18 studies involving a total of 160,257 participants  By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 17:44 … Read more

London’s air quality improves dramatically under coronavirus lockdown as fewer cars on roads

London’s air quality has ‘dramatically improved’ due to a cut in traffic caused by the coronavirus lockdown. Figures published by the mayor’s office show average levels of nitrogen dioxide at some of the capital’s busiest roads are half what they were before the pandemic. The findings match preliminary analysis by York University experts which shows … Read more

Carrie Symonds’s joy as Boris Johnson improves and can get in touch with her

Boris Johnson’s condition is improving – and he may even have been able to speak to his pregnant fiancee Carrie Symonds, it was revealed on Wednesday.  The Prime Minister remains in intensive care with coronavirus but is sitting up and ‘engaging positively’ with his doctors and nurses, said Chancellor Rishi Sunak.  No10 added that he ‘continues … Read more