I always find it fascinating when studies confirm what those living healthy lives already know. A new study from Harvard does just that, as it finds that sedentary activities, like watching TV, increases one’s risk of depression, yet exercise has the opposite effect.
Daily Mail reports:
Watching TV can increase the risk of depression warn scientists.
A study by Harvard University found inactivity can cause a range of emotional and physical symptoms associated with the condition.
Whereas exercise has a positive impact boosting self-esteem, sense of control and endorphin levels.
Findings revealed that those who exercised the most — 90 minutes or more each day — were 20 per cent less likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who exercised 10 minutes or less a day.
Meanwhile women who watched three hours or more of television a day were 13 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who hardly ever tuned in.
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