Mental Health And Green Exercise

EDM number 1124 in 2007-08, proposed by Martin Caton on 05/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Health education and preventive medicine and Mental health.

That this House notes the recent evidence that anti-depressant drugs are ineffective in the treatment of many people; commends the mental health charity MIND, for its report Ecotherapy - the green agenda for mental health, which shows that exercise activity outside in attractive and varied landscapes benefits mental as well as physical health; and supports MIND's calls for Ecotherapy to be recognised as a clinically valid treatment for mental distress, access to green space to be considered as a key issue in all care planning and care assessment, and designing for mental wellbeing to be recognised as good practice for architecture and planning.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.