Niall MacLeod

Exeter, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Health and Wellbeing- connecting to our communities, the natural environment and to ourselves

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

We live in interesting times and face major challenges in the coming years. Health and wellbeing is over-medicalised. Despite material wealth and medical advances, society is actually becoming less healthy with increasing social "dis-ease"- obesity related, social isolation and mental illness. Most worryingly this is increasingly true in children and young adults. To be healthy and happy we need to reconnect to our communities, to ourselves and to the natural environment. The problem at an individual and societal level is "boxes"- we live in a box, go to work in a box, work in a box, eat processed food from a box, spend 27.5 hrs a week on average leisure time in the UK looking at a box (t...