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BECAUSE SELF CARE IS HEALTH CARE
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There’s plenty of research linking gardening with improved psychological wellbeing and physical health. Now a new study of allotment gardeners in London has found it helps us to have a more positive body image too. ‘Positive body image is beneficial because it helps to foster psychological and physical resilience, which contributes to overall wellbeing,’ says Viren Swami, Professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge.