{"id":1504,"date":"2021-06-03T20:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2021-07-09T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:18:56","slug":"how-gardening-twice-a-week-can-improve-wellbeing-and-relieve-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/how-gardening-twice-a-week-can-improve-wellbeing-and-relieve-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gardening Twice a Week Can Improve Wellbeing and Relieve Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264275121000160\"><strong>StudyDirect<\/strong><\/a>, frequent gardening can increase health benefits, including better wellbeing and lower stress levels.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and the University of Virginia. It indicated that those who garden every day have a wellbeing score that&#8217;s 6.6% higher (and a stress level that&#8217;s 4.2% lower) than those who don\u2019t garden at all.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Lauriane Chalmin-Pui, the lead author of this research, \u201cThis is the first time the \u2018dose response\u2019 to gardening has been tested and the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the more frequently you garden \u2013 the greater the health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/news\/gardening-just-twice-a-week-improves-wellbeing-and-relieves-stress\/\"><strong>ScienceFocus<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cGardening every day has the same positive impact on wellbeing as undertaking regular, vigorous exercise like cycling or running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that the gardeners in the study weren&#8217;t trying to improve their health; for them, it was simply a pleasure to garden. \u201cGardening is like effortless exercise because it doesn\u2019t feel as strenuous as going to the gym, for example, but we can expend similar amounts of energy,\u201d Chalmin-Pui said. \u201cMost people say they garden for pleasure and enjoyment so the likelihood of getting hooked to gardening is also high and the good news is that from a mental health perspective \u2013 you can\u2019t \u2018over-dose\u2019 on gardening,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chalmin-Pui hopes \u201call the millions of new gardeners will be getting their daily doses of gardening this week and feeling all the better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to a new study by StudyDirect, frequent gardening can increase health benefits, including better wellbeing and lower stress levels. The study was conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and the University of Virginia. It indicated that those who garden every day have a wellbeing score [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}