Roaming through fields and forests sounds whimsical, but research has shown it’s good for health and wellbeing.

Although it may seem unsurprising that being outdoors is beneficial, according to a team of researchers from Europe and the US, the relationship between exposure to nature and health is underresearched.

They’ve started to address this with a study covering thousands of people, which has come up with an exposure threshold to aim for: at least 120 minutes a week.

They came to this conclusion after investigating the link between recreational time in nature in the past seven days, and self-reported health (‘very bad’, ‘bad’, ‘fair’, ‘good’ and ‘very good’) and wellbeing using the Life Satisfaction scale from zero to 10.