Tips to battle depression
Research has shown that exercise has shown significant mood-lifting
power. Duke University publishers produced results of a study in which
they divided depressed patients ages 50-77 into three groups. The first
group did 30 minutes of jogging or brisk walking three times a week;
the second took the antidepressants Zoloft and the third group did both.
After four months, patients in all three groups were doing equally
well; the medication offered no particular advantage over working out
except in relieving the symptoms a little faster. When researchers
followed up later they found a major difference between the types of
treatment. One-third of the patients that improved on Zoloft had
relapsed whereas 92 percent of those benefiting from just aerobic
exercise program were still doing well.
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