Will We Ever Accept that Exercise is Often the Best Medicine?

April 3, 2014

pimg class=”alignright” alt=”pillsvsexercise” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/pillsvsexercise.jpg” width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”Will We Ever Accept that Exercise is Often the Best Medicine?” /For years, experts have known that in mild to moderate cases of a title=”Diet for Depression” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diet-for-depression”depression/a exercise is as effective (or more effective) a treatment as prescription drugs. Yet, here we are in 2014, with still climbing obesity rates and higher than ever numbers of people taking anti-depressants #8211; a a title=”What Does a 400% Increase in Anti-depressant Prescribing Mean?” href=”http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/20/what-does-a-400-increase-in-antidepressant-prescribing-really-mean/” target=”_blank”400% jump in the last 20 years/a. This past week, exercise as medical therapy got another round of press after emThe Atlantic/em highlighted the issue in their thought provoking feature #8220;a title=”For Depression: Prescribing Exercise before Medication” href=”http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/for-depression-prescribing-exercise-before-medication/284587/” target=”_blank”For Depression, Prescribing Exercise Before Medication/a.#8221; Let me add, however, that we aren#8217;t just missing the boat in terms of depression therapy. strongResearch has shown time and again that exercise offers just as […]

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