5 Mins Daily "Green" Exercise Boosts Mental Health
New research from the UK suggests that just five minutes of "green" exercise a day benefits people's mood, self-esteem and mental health: in fact they found this small dose produced the largest positive effect.
You can read about the investigation Drs Jo Barton and Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex conducted into how a walk a day might keep the doctor away, inEnvironmental Science and Technology, where it appeared online on 25 March and will appear in print later this month.
Pretty, who is Professor of Environment and Society at Essex, told the media that:
"For the first time in the scientific literature, we have been able to show dose-response relationships for the positive effects of nature on human mental health."
