{"id":1503,"date":"2015-11-02T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:41:51","slug":"allotment-gardening-can-boost-mental-well-being-according-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2015\/11\/02\/allotment-gardening-can-boost-mental-well-being-according-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Allotment gardening &#8216;can boost mental well-being&#8217;, according to study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/11\/allotment-gardening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1504\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/11\/allotment-gardening-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"allotment gardening\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/11\/allotment-gardening-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/11\/allotment-gardening-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/11\/allotment-gardening.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gardening in an allotment can improve mood and self-esteem, according to research by two universities.<\/p>\n<p>The study, by Westminster and Essex universities, questioned 269 people &#8211; around half of whom did some gardening.<\/p>\n<p>The results revealed that those who spent as little as 30 minutes a week in their allotments saw significant gains in mental well-being, according to the Journal of Public Health.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-34666231\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening in an allotment can improve mood and self-esteem, according to research by two universities. The study, by Westminster and Essex universities, questioned 269 people &#8211; around half of whom did some gardening. The results &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}