Natural Treatment for Depression:
Walk to Ease Depression
Researchers at America's Duke University found that three, brisk 30-minute
walks every week had greater effects on reducing depression than drugs from
the same family as Prozac. Six months after their 156 subjects had completed
the 16-week study, only eight percent of the exercisers saw their depression
return.
In a separate study at the University of Texas, USA, a half-hour walk
was shown to provide an instant lift for the moderately depressed, giving
them the same sort of pick-me-up they might normally get from cigarettes,
coffee or binge-eating. They also felt less tense, depressed, angry and
tired, said a study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sport and
Exercise.
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