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DIGGING UP better health

Imagine a time when, instead of blood pressure pills, sleeping tablets or antidepressants, your GP sends you off with a prescription for a healthy dose of gardening to fix your woes. Gardening as a form of social prescribing is not yet universally available – but, all going well, we should be able to look forward to more of this kind of drug-free therapy in the future.

And, yes, it really can lower your blood pressure, help you sleep better and improve your

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