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Article: Exercise may be the best medicine
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Exercise may be the best medicine
Working out is helpful for people battling depression
By IRA DREYFUSS
Associated Press
Sunday, October 1, 2000
Exercise works at least as well as a popular prescription drug in
treating clinical depression and keeping the condition from
returning, researchers say.
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center tested exercise
against Zoloft, and found the ability of either -- or a combination
of the two -- to reduce or eliminate symptoms were about the same.
But they found exercise seemed to do a better job of keeping symptoms
from coming back after the depression lifted.
"The present findings suggest that a modest exercise program . . .
is an effective, ...