"Forest bathing"

The Japanese have known for centuries the health benefits of walking in woods. Hence they refer to it as “ forest bathing”.


I thought of that this afternoon when I was forced to retreat into the woods due to rain where the trees provided a useful canopy.


Now I see that the NHS is to extend their social prescribing to include walking and cycling in order to ease the burden on the NHS.


Surely it didn’t need a cash strapped NHS to work out that its better to prescribe physical activities such as walking or cycling instead of a quick fix with pills?