{"id":2159,"date":"2022-04-13T23:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2022-04-13T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:35:30","slug":"exercise-even-just-a-little-bit-can-help-prevent-depression-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Exercise, even just a little bit, can help prevent depression, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new review from researchers at the University of Cambridge shows that those who exercise are less likely to develop depression, even if they exercise less than the recommended amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0recommends that adults\u00a0engage in 2 \u00bd to five hours of moderate activity per week or one hour and 15 minutes to 2 \u00bd hours of vigorous aerobic exercise per week or some combination of the two.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adults who\u00a0took a brisk walk\u00a0for what amounted to 2 \u00bd hours per week were less likely to develop depression than those who didn\u2019t exercise at all, the study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even those who exercised less fared better than those who didn\u2019t exercise at all, according to researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article260395962.html\">News Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new review from researchers at the University of Cambridge shows that those who exercise are less likely to develop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}