Short messages on Physical health issues from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
You can start ecotherapy on your own or with a group. Sessions often include some type of formal therapy, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or other talking treatment. You can find activities near you through the online Ecotherapy Directory (http://bit.ly/28ncBk5).
People join ecotherapy programmes because it can improve mental and physical health, develops your social life, build your confidence, strengthen your connection with nature and help you practise mindfulness.
Ecotherapy: “It gives me structure, makes me utilise the daylight and get out of bed. It gives me something outside of myself to nurture and look after and that helps me to better look after myself.”
Ecotherapy can improve your mental and physical wellbeing through doing outdoor activities, by working in nature, such as a conservation project, gardening or farming, or by experiencing nature, such as enjoying the views on a walk or cycling through some woodland.
The main symptoms of food poisoning include: feeling sick, vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach cramps, aching muscles, chills and weakness.
Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating contaminated food. It’s not usually serious and most people get better within a few days without treatment.
In the UK, children breathing in other people’s cigarette smoke results in 300,000 GP visits and 9,500 hospital admissions for children every year.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of second-hand smoke because they breathe more rapidly and have less developed airways, lungs and immune systems.
In the UK, it is illegal to smoke in vehicles with someone under 18 present. The driver and passenger could be fined £50.
Breathing in second-hand smoke increases a child’s or an adult’s risk of lung cancer by 24% and heart disease by 25%.