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Article: Light therapy can alleviate 'SAD'-ness
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- December 2, 2007
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By KATY GANZ
Staff Writer
MILLERSBURG -- Take 30 minutes of sunlight a day and call the
doctor in the morning.
It's not the usual prescription, but for the 14 percent of
Americans who experience the winter weather depression clinically
known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, it may be one of the best
treatments for a mood disorder that can mimmic the symptoms of
clinical depression.
"The more we are indoors, the more likely we are not getting what
we need from outdoors," said Joe E. Heimlich, an Ohio State
University associate professor of Environmental Science and
Community Development.
That includes sunlight.
"Most of us go to work early in the morning and we work in the
winter until it's ...