Cyclescope 17th May

Whilst we know that eating our greens is good for us, resent research shows that it could slow or prevent the most common form of arthritis – osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease which affects the spine, hands, feet, hips and knees, causing debilitating pain and loss of mobility. Osteoarthritis affects around 8.5 million people in the UK alone, and there are is currently no known ‘cure’ (as proven by scientists – see below for more thoughts on this).

Planning your home education schedule for September? Check out these brilliant creative and fun activities. From hands on maths with dried pasta to writing your own podcast, there's something for every family here.

If you feel low or are seeking meaning to your life, try this: order a hundred native tree saplings from a nursery (a mix of oaks, silver birches and wild cherries), then go and plant them out in an ecologically deprived area with a hundred children between 5 - 8 years of age. After you’ve created a new woodland, with the smell of earth on your hands, your face upturned to the rain, sun, and wind, you will feel light, joyful, uplifted - this I promise you. We talk to Andreas Kornevall who plants trees with children to restore the world.