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Supervised aerobic exercise may offer significant relief for patients with major depressive disorder, according to a new study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety. Although research has shown a link between exercise and reduced levels of depression, few studies have established the effects of aerobic exercise (AE) interventions on clinically depressed adult patients. The purpose of this meta‐analysis was to look at the antidepressant effects of AE versus nonexercise therapies exclusively in depressed adults (18–65 years) who had been recruited through mental health services with a referral or clinical diagnosis of major depression. The study looked at 11 trials involving 455 adult patients with major depression as their primary disorder. The participants engaged in supervised aerobic exercise for an average of 45 minutes at moderate intensity, 3 times per week for 9.2 weeks. The AE intervention showed a significantly large overall antidepressant effect compared with
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As childhood obesity continues to rise and physical education classes are replaced by academics, elementary schools are searching for ways to incorporate the federally mandated half-hour of physical activity into the school day. In-class exercise tends to put off many teachers who believe that the burst of activity in the classroom will disrupt learning. But new research suggests that mini exercise breaks during the school day may actually work quite well. In a series of five studies, researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) confirmed that 2-minute bursts of in-class exercise not only increased the amount of daily exercise for students, but did so without hurting math performance. In fact, when the exercise breaks were incorporated into classrooms throughout southeast Michigan, teachers found the breaks quite doable, and in some cases, could even enhance learning. "Teachers were worried it would make kids more rowdy, but 99 percent of kids were back on task within 30 seconds of
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